7. The Committee supports the initiative to (re-)establish a forum for constitutional institutions, which the SAHRC chairs. Past efforts to do so were not especially successful but the need for the constitutional institutions to co-operate and collaborate for greater efficiency and effectiveness remains - even more so, given the many challenges (not only budgetary) that these institutions are faced with. The Committee is pleased that this initiative appears to be going well but requests that the SAHRC continues to provide it with quarterly progress reports on progress.