If, for example, an agency working to reduce poverty in Africa cuts staff with expert knowledge, it is more likely to end up funding projects that fail.

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The plan included a reduction in fuel subsidies which has a direct effect on the prices of basic commodities and significant cuts to government spending.

These modifications and adjustments reduce the expenses of the compensatory project to USD 46,113,706.

Staffing requirements funded from overhead charges

These new trends, in terms of good governance  in particular, reducing costs for security, scrupulous management of public finances and the priority allocation of resources to social sectors to combat poverty will provide a new impetus to speed up the implementation of the MDGs in Mauritania.

Because of economic recession, it was often not possible to reduce budget deficits, either by reducing government expenditures or by increasing taxes.

Urges UNIFEM to continue working on reducing expenditures from regular (core) resources on programme support and administration and management in order to increase resources available for programmes

Table 10. Proposed resource requirements funded from overhead charges (thousands of United States dollars)

AS manages secretariat wide operating costs from the core budget. Staffing and related costs of AS are funded from overheads.

The average rate of overhead reached more than 11 per cent in 2004

28. Further decides to reduce the provision for general temporary assistance by 2.5 million dollars

Table 9.

Claim 5000183 is for expenses and other losses related to public health damage.

A 60 159 Add.1 Item 85 (b) Reduction of military budgets Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures Report of the Secretary General A C E F R S

According to a study by the Ministry of Planning in 1997, however, entitled Consideration of the possibility of mobilizing additional resources for essential social services , an analysis of the distribution of public expenditure showed that the proportion allocated to social expenditure was of the order of 30 per cent and to essential health services around 15 per cent.

The World Bank's Public Expenditure Tracking System could be used, as appropriate, as a model for monitoring the performance and accountability of sanitation systems.

A new approach had therefore been adopted whereby, in the absence of specific instructions from donors, their share of unspent balances would be returned in the form of a cheque.

We are also proposing in the General Assembly a reduction in the cost of international money remittances from migrant workers.

Table 8

Biennial support budget

Personnel

ILO International Labour Organization

Expenses

In Malawi, we are promoting good governance by pursuing sound macro economic policies, reduction in public expenditure, bench marking the activities and performance of the civil service and fighting corruption at all levels.

Programme expenditure

Meetings and consultations

Reimbursements of expenditures

Actual expenditure exceeded budgeted expenditure by 0.5 per cent.

Had the Administration been able to fully implement the measures called for by the General Assembly, the revised estimates of requirements might well have been reduced.

Actual expenditure in field offices represents only a part of the total expenditure.

1 The amount required to bring the working capital reserve up to 8.3 per cent of the total annual programmes cost plus overhead.

Iran further states that it incurred expenses in providing medical treatment and public health facilities to the refugees, and seeks compensation for those expenses.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

Let's share the expenses.

Let's share the expenses.

Expenditure analysis

E. Expenditure estimates

a Includes commitment authority in the amount of 49,950,000.

Noise Reduction...

Noise Reduction

It therefore agreed that, as an exceptional measure, only such expenditures considered essential, irrespective of any policy review, be recommended for approval.

Lack of economic governance was seen as the heart of previous failures in Haiti so that much attention continues to be focused on budget preparation, expenditure control, public bidding processes, and management of public enterprises.

Unforeseen and extraordinary expenses

Expenditures Annual Programme Fund