• While during my tenure as the Mandate-holder, I had a number of informal meetings with the Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities; it would be efficacious to have a more formal institutional relationship and a protocol for the sharing of information. • A Voluntary Fund for Minorities should be established. It is my hope that the Forum will become stronger, and more institutionalized, yet retain its edginess and openness. Due to the range and depth of topics covered during the Forum, I would recommend that the Human Rights Council considers adding another day to the Forum. The Independent Expert could consider diversifying the format for the additional day. New and impactful ways should be developed to disseminate and encourage implementation of the Recommendations. I also call upon Member States to increase their financial and political support for the Forum. It has been encouraging to see the valuable participation of the United Nations mechanisms and specialized agencies. Hopefully their participation in the Forum will become more institutionalized, and that the Forum will become a vehicle for engaging regional human rights protection systems, possibly through convening a meeting each year in a region on a rotating basis. 9