CAT/C/69/3 Subcommittee has assisted in the assessment of project proposals and recommendations for grants. 29. The Subcommittee greatly appreciates the contributions made to the Special Fund during the reporting period by Czechia ($8,703), France ($55,741), Germany ($85,227), Norway ($108,318) and Spain ($ 32,822). Nevertheless, it remains mindful of the fact that further contributions will be necessary to support projects during the 2020–2021 grant cycle and beyond. The Special Fund is an essential tool for supporting and complementing the implementation of Subcommittee recommendations aimed at the prevention of torture and ill-treatment; the Subcommittee therefore urges States to continue to provide the Special Fund with the financial support it requires. III. Engagement with other bodies in the field of torture prevention A. International cooperation 1. Cooperation with other United Nations bodies 30. The Chair of the Subcommittee discussed the twelfth annual report of the Subcommittee (CAT/C/66/2) with the Committee against Torture in plenary session at the Committee’s sixty-sixth session. 31. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 70/146, the Chair of the Subcommittee, together with the Chair of the Committee against Torture and the Special Rapporteur on torture, presented the twelfth annual report of the Subcommittee to the Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. 32. As a member of the meeting of the Chairs of the treaty bodies, the Chair of the Subcommittee participated in the thirty-first meeting of the former, which was held in New York from 24 to 28 June 2019. 33. On 26 June, the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the Committee against Torture, the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment issued a joint statement6 in which they highlighted the need to achieve justice and rehabilitation for torture victims and, in particular, the significance of the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Protocol). 34. The Subcommittee continued to cooperate systematically with other mechanisms, including by transmitting to the Committee against Torture suggestions for it to consider concerning States parties to the Optional Protocol, the reports of which are to be considered at forthcoming sessions of the Committee, and issues for it to consider raising with State parties under the simplified reporting procedure. At their joint meeting in November 2019, within the framework of the thirty-eighth session of the Subcommittee and the sixty-eighth session of the Committee against Torture, the Subcommittee and Committee against Torture discussed the implementation of the obligations of the Convention and of the Optional Protocol thereto in a range of States of current mutual interest. 35. The Subcommittee continued to cooperate with the treaty body capacity-building programme. 36. The Subcommittee also continued its cooperation with the regional offices of OHCHR, the United Nations country teams and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, particularly in the context of its field visits. 6 www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24739&LangID=E. 7