CAT/C/54/2 VI. Looking forward 97. In 2014, the Subcommittee continued to modify and review its methodologies and working practices as it endeavoured to better fulfil its mandate and increase outreach efficaciously. The changes made thus far have been promising, having not only increased the Subcommittee’s capacity to engage with States parties, NPMs and other stakeholders but also facilitated enhancement of the Subcommittee’s responsiveness, adding vigour to its efforts. While the Subcommittee recognizes that adjusting its working methods and approaches to be able to dispose successfully of its functions under article 11 of the Optional Protocol is a continuing process, it fully understands and appreciates that the utilization of its expertise and experience should be balanced with the core principles of confidentiality, impartiality, non-selectivity, universality and objectivity, as set out in article 2, paragraph 3, of the Optional Protocol. The continuing challenge with resources 98. The Subcommittee notes, with appreciation, the changes incorporated into General Assembly resolution 68/268 in order to better reflect and provide for the distinct operational needs of the Subcommittee. Nonetheless, it wishes to draw attention to the fact that the resolution does not provide for any significant overall increase in capacity, but rather merely mainstreams the ad hoc support currently provided by extrabudgetary means through the generosity of some States parties. The Subcommittee understands the significance of that extra resourcing through the regular budget and it is greatly appreciative of it. Nevertheless, the blunt truth is that while the Subcommittee has the greatest backlog of work within the treaty body system it has not received, within this strengthening process, the direct additional support required to enable it to significantly increase the number of its visits. 99. Much of the mandate and work of the Subcommittee is focused on providing States parties and NPMs with advice and assistance, that is, with capacity-building in order to prevent torture and ill-treatment. The Subcommittee therefore strongly believes that it should be able to benefit from the extra provision for capacity-building measures that the General Assembly, in its resolution 68/268, called upon the Secretary-General to provide through OHCHR. The Subcommittee therefore looks forward in 2015 and beyond to seeing a meaningful increase in its operational capacity to undertake its capacity-building work, as set out in the Optional Protocol and as called for and provided for in resolution 68/268. 100. While the Subcommittee recognizes the need to work within the budget made available to it, and has sought to change its working methodology conscious of that fact, it wishes to emphasize that the Subcommittee as a treaty body is designed, in accordance with the Optional Protocol, to operate in a vastly different manner to its counterparts within the treaty body system. In that regard, the Subcommittee reiterates that it requires additional human and other resources to adequately deliver its mandate, and acknowledges that the additional professional member of staff in the Subcommittee secretariat financially supported by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Junior Professional Officers provided by Hungary during 2014 were vital to the work of the Subcommittee during this period. The welcome increase in the number of States parties to the Optional Protocol and of NPMs operating within its framework makes such resourcing all the more urgent. The Subcommittee would like to invite the States parties to the Optional Protocol to consider providing such additional resourcing so that the work of the Subcommittee may be conducted more fully and efficaciously. 21