CAT/C/46/2 However, if the Subcommittee is to be able to take full advantage of the opportunities which its expanded membership offers it is vital that there is a significant increase in its secretariat. Its existing secretariat is already struggling to cope with its demanding workload and it is simply not possible for it to service the increased level of activity which the expansion of the Subcommittee is intended to bring. The Subcommittee believes that an expansion in the size of its secretariat is an essential prerequisite for the further expansion of its work, and that a failure to do so would frustrate the object and purpose of the second sentence of article 5, paragraph 1. B. Plan of work for 2011 110. In constructing its plan of work for 2011, the Subcommittee has been conscious of the need to balance a number of completing pressures. First, there is a pressing need to take full advantage of the increased membership of the Subcommittee and to construct a programme that helps induct and integrate new members as soon as possible. Second, there is a need to expand the range of follow-up activities with those States which have already received a visit from the Subcommittee, in order to enhance the intensity and effectiveness of the preventive dialogue with them. Third, there is an ongoing and increasing need to engage with NPMs. Fourth, there is a need to establish contact as soon as possible with new States parties. Fifth, there is need to maintain a significant capacity to respond to the ever increasing number of invitation and requests for advice and assistance which are received. Sixth, there is a need to make additional contributions to the overall work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees where possible. Finally, there is a need to do all of the above within the context of a constrained budget, this requiring innovation and efficiency. 111. To that end, at its twelfth session in November 2010, the Subcommittee decided that, in the course of 2011, it would conduct visits to Brazil, Mali and Ukraine. 112. As in the past, these countries have been chosen after careful reflection, taking into account the variety of factors which have been indentified in this and previous annual reports, which include date of ratification/development of NPMs, geographic distribution, size and complexity of State, regional preventive monitoring in operation, and specific or urgent issues reported. C. Building working relations with other bodies 113. The Subcommittee has much formal and informal contact with other bodies at national, regional and international levels. Much is said about collaboration and sharing information, etc., to facilitate each other’s work, but it remains the case that this often proves difficult to do in practice. The Subcommittee hopes that establishing a system of regional Rapporteurs will open new opportunities for deepening the level of cooperation. To that end, the Subcommittee believes it may be helpful to set out a possible template for forms of co-operative activities which it has devised to inform its thinking on how best to build such relationships. 114. The Subcommittee believes that it is helpful to distinguish between a number of general forms of cooperative activity: (a) Promotional/Awareness-raising: as the names imply, these forms of cooperation will be at a relatively general level, typified by one-off presentations of work, in order to foster better mutual understanding of the work of the bodies in question and of the Subcommittee. Such activities ought to be encouraged where resources permit and where it has broad, strategic significance for the work of the Subcommittee; 24 GE.11-40683