A/HRC/29/48 54. The Secretariat should support OHCHR to put in place adequate mechanisms for career development, taking into account the sometimes extremely difficult circumstances in which staff operate, in particular in crisis situations. The new measures taken by the Secretariat to ensure mobility of OHCHR and other United Nations staff members between duty stations are most welcome. The Board would like to ensure that these measures do not weaken but rather strengthen and support the years of investment in building robust human rights expertise in the staff of the United Nations. This would be critical for the Office’s capacity to effectively meet the increasing requests from Member States for technical cooperation. IV. Status of funding and donors 55. At its meetings in October 2014 and February 2015, the Board was updated on the overall financial status of OHCHR and its donors, the financial situation ofr 2014 of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights and its functioning in the overall funding system, including interlinkages with other extrabudgetary resources, and the funding projections and proposed work plan for the Fund for 2015. Expenditures under the Fund had again increased throughout 2014 without being matched by financial contributions, a situation that the Board brings constantly to the attention of the Human Rights Council in its annual updates. 56. In 2014, the total expenditure of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights amounted to $20.2 million. The Fund received a total of $17.7 million in voluntary contributions, of which $9.7 million were earmarked and $8 million were allocated to the Fund from unearmarked contributions to OHCHR. The resulting deficit of $2.5 million at the end of 2014 was covered from other existing reserves. During this period, the Fund continued to provide resources for technical cooperation to build strong human rights frameworks at the national level in 30 regions, States and territories. This included support for 16 human rights advisers (in Chad, Ecuador, Honduras, Kenya, Madagascar, the Niger, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Maldives, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, South Caucasus (Georgia), Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Ukraine); eight human rights components of peace missions (in Afghanistan, Côte d’Ivoire, Darfur (Sudan), Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Libya and Somalia) and six country/standalone offices (Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Kosovo,4 Mauritania, Mexico, Togo and the State of Palestine). Details of contributions and programmes are provided in the annual report of OHCHR for 2014. 57. Through the Fund, the Office has facilitated efforts made at the country level to incorporate international human rights standards into national laws, policies and practices, and contributed to the establishment and strengthening of national capacities to adhere to these standards. Strengthening the administration of justice and increasing capacities to promote gender equality and women’s rights have also been the focus of numerous programmes receiving support from the Fund. Through the newly established thematic priority on widening democratic space, greater engagement on the establishment and functioning of responsive national human rights institutions and on human rights education programmes have been facilitated. United Nations Resident Coordinators and country teams have also seen their human rights capacity strengthened by the continuing deployment of human rights advisers. Detailed information on income and expenditure 4 Reference to Kosovo should be understood in full compliance with Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo. 15