A/HRC/37/79 Contents Page I. II. III. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 A. Background ........................................................................................................................... 3 B. Mandate ................................................................................................................................ 3 Activities of the Voluntary Fund and the Board of Trustees ......................................................... 4 A. Forty-fourth session (Geneva) .............................................................................................. 5 B. Forty-fifth session (Middle East and North Africa Region) ................................................ 6 Technical cooperation ................................................................................................................... 10 A. Technical cooperation and the priority areas of work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ................................................................................ 10 B. Synergy and partnerships with other United Nations entities ............................................... 11 C. Measuring the results of technical cooperation and the response of the Office of the High Commissioner ........................................................................................................ 12 Main findings, challenges and recommendations ................................................................. 12 Status of funding and donors ......................................................................................................... 13 I. Contributions to the Voluntary Fund and expenditure trends (2008–2017) .................................. 14 II. Voluntary Fund cost plan and expenditure (2017) ........................................................................ 15 III. Financial status of the Voluntary Fund (2017) .............................................................................. 16 IV. Donors and contributors (2017) .................................................................................................... 17 D. IV. Annexes 2