Financial implications and cost sharing arrangements

61. Underlines that the funding for administration of justice, based on cost sharing arrangements, should be clear, predictable and secure

With regard to the financial arrangements, it will be recalled that in accordance with the practice followed on the occasion of previous multilateral disarmament conferences, and as reflected in the Rules of Procedure, the costs of such conferences, including those pertaining to preparatory meetings, would be shared among the States Parties participating in the conferences, based upon the United Nations scale of assessment pro rated to take into account the number of

Subject to the States Parties' approval of the estimated costs and cost sharing formula, assessment notices will be prepared based on the overall estimated costs and applicable cost sharing formula.

The programme at the United Nations Office at Vienna is financed on a cost shared basis with other organizations located at the Vienna International Centre.

Consultations are under way to finalize the project document drafted on a cost sharing basis with UNDP Turkmenistan for submission to the Government.

The majority of patients (80 per cent) are exempted from cost sharing.

The budget submission was presented in gross terms, including the United Nations cost sharing, and, for further clarity, the provision for each category of expenditure was apportioned between the Fund and the United Nations under the cost sharing agreement.

For presentation purposes, UNV, MSAs, the reimbursable support services and other activities (the JPO programme and the RFA, among others) are included in the other resources grouping.

The proportionate share of some costs, which would be borne by the United Nations under the agreed cost sharing arrangements, amounted to 14,034,800.

(e) The option and benefit of funding the United Nations information centres on a cost shared basis with other United Nations entities that benefit from the services of the information centres in each location

2. Welcomes the agreed inter agency cost sharing arrangement, and requests that the apportionment of expenses be updated in 2003

The Advisory Committee is of the view that cost sharing should be applied and the results systematically reported in performance reports.

These resources have been complemented by cost sharing contributions from the Government of Japan totalling 31.5 million (since 1996) that have been channelled to UNDP under the Japan Human Resources Development Fund.

But if it all works, sharing risk now will not be expensive in the end.

Exchange rate All costs have been calculated on the basis of actual expenditures.

The security strengthening programme approved for Vienna is financed on a cost shared basis with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization.

The estimates of net salaries are based on standard cost rates.

In some instances, it will be necessary to devise a form of cost sharing mechanism to assure the sustainability of the software.

Also requests the Secretary General to report the necessary reimbursement for the transition period, reflecting the effective start date of the cost sharing arrangements, in the context of the budget performance reports

(d) The source of funding and cost sharing mechanisms for services provided on an internal and intra agency basis

(b) The results of the negotiations between the United Nations and other participating entities on cost sharing arrangements for the system of administration of justice

It is possible, of course, to envision sharing the costs, but it is no longer possible not to charge for water.

These estimates were calculated where applicable on the basis of the cost parameters indicated below.

The approaches to rehabilitation that must be adopted to that end should be based on cost benefit analyses.

The additional five locations, currently hosting UNIDO Focal Points, would be upgraded without following the agreed cost sharing principles stipulated in the Agreement.

UNIFEM exceeded its projections for 2004 by approximately 10 million, due largely to increases in cost sharing and trust funds.

And some Europeans worried that the Fund was taking sides in a polarized intra European dispute about how the costs of the financial crisis should be shared.

The highest increase in receipts for other resources was the increase in donor cost sharing contributions, which was over 100 per cent.

UNICEF is encouraging its offices to participate in and provide leadership to common services as a way to save administrative costs at the field level.

62. Decides to approve the cost sharing arrangement as outlined by the Secretary General in paragraphs 161 and 162 of his report A 62 294.

The cost estimates for the period under review were based on an authorized strength of 3,980.

In paragraph 54 of its report, the Board recommended that the Fund further request the United Nations Secretariat to liquidate its cost sharing obligations, and seek a new procedure to account for cost sharing arrangements.

Cross regional sharing of experience could be further enhanced through a web based mechanism hosted by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Cost sharing and trust funds contributions have increased by 110 per cent, from 12.3 million in 2003 to 25.9 million in 2004.

(b) an operations based, cost effective capacity for delivery within a rapid response environment and

Table 1 provides a summary of the results of the recosting based on the parameters described in the following paragraphs.

(a) Programme H.1 is mostly cost shared among the VIC based organizations under the agreed cost sharing formula based on occupants and space usage.

(f) Improve transparency and value for money by introducing activity based costing techniques, to be rolled out systematically in 2006.

Under the cost sharing arrangements, it is estimated that approximately one half of external audit costs are expended on the audit of administrative operations and one half on investment operations.

Comment by the Administration. The liquidation by the Secretariat of cost sharing obligations with regard to the previous biennium has not yet been obtained, pending the definition of new financial arrangements with the United Nations.

Also requests the Secretary General to report the necessary reimbursement for the transition period, reflecting the effective start date of the cost sharing arrangements, in the context of the budget performance reports

If burdens are to be shared, decisions must be shared as well.

The United Nations reiterated its support for continuation of the cost sharing arrangements made with the Pension Fund, in consideration of the pension administrative services provided by the Fund's secretariat as the Staff Pension Committee of the United Nations.

For exchange rate fluctuations, cost adjustments update previous assumptions on the basis of actual monthly operational rates in the country of operation.