A/HRC/25/22 80. In December 2013, staff in the Human Rights Treaties Division of OHCHR, which supports the treaty bodies, received training on the OHCHR Gender Equality Policy and Gender Equality Strategic Plan. OHCHR systematically strives to integrate a gender perspective in secretariat inputs into the work of the treaty bodies to ensure that it is reflected in their outputs, such as lists of issues, concluding observations, views and decisions, as well as field visits by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. In implementation of the Gender Equality Strategic Plan, staff of the Human Rights Treaties Division were also requested to incorporate a gender goal or action in their respective workplans. IV. Conclusion 81. The growth of the treaty body system, combined with the increase in States parties to the international human rights instruments has not been met with an equivalent allocation of resources or meeting time necessary to ensure the effective fulfilment of the treaty bodies’ mandates. The chronic deficiency of resources has led to a significant backlog of reports awaiting consideration by the treaty bodies and an excessive waiting time for authors of individual complaints, largely undermining the protective function of the complaints procedures. 82. Reviews of staffing and financial needs have only taken place in an ad hoc manner, usually when a decision to request additional meeting time is adopted or when a treaty passes a milestone for expansion. Such requests have not always, or only partially, been approved by the General Assembly. There has been no comprehensive review of the workload and resourcing of the treaty bodies. A coherent, sustainable and periodically reassessed financing system for treaty bodies must be established and operationalized. 83. The Secretary-General continues to follow the intergovernmental process on treaty body strengthening with great interest and expectation, and looks forward to a comprehensive and sustainable outcome of the process by mid-February 2014. 16