Moreover, because of the diversity of organizations' core activities, programmes and mandates, the reduction in overall operating costs is likely to disproportionately favour organizations with field programmes.

Sufficient and predictable funding through the core budget for core activities mandated by the Parties is essential for the timely delivery and high quality of these activities.

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

Legal and protection policy research and publication are core UNHCR activities.

These activities are supported by UNIFIL helicopter patrols and the activities of Observer Group Lebanon operating from four patrol bases.

Regular or core resources are expected to cover the basic operating infrastructure of an organization, meeting basic expenses that are fundamental for fulfilling its institutional mandates, ensuring an adequate country presence and securing a platform for its country driven programme activities.

Focussing on core activities in fewer locations is another source of saving costs.

However, more Governments were recognizing the importance of core financing for UNICEF activities.

A better balance was also needed, with the resources directed primarily to core activities.

Peace and security continued to be a core element of the activities of the Centre.

Interest income arising from UNDP activities is credited to the operating fund account maintained with that organization.

Those were core activities of the Organization and should receive adequate funding in the regular budget.

Offshoring means relocating non core activities to low cost areas while maintaining the activity within the organization.

The content manager system is a core application supporting the operations and finance activities of the Fund.

(h) Serving as facilitators of the integration activities of organizations of the United Nations system operating within the subregions.

These arrangements have been effective in building ownership of the activities in each country, and have also minimized operating costs.

Fund raising activities add to the secretariat's workload and distract already over extended staff from core activities, often without the pledges being proportionate to the time invested.

This proposal maintains the approved levels of staffing and staff grades and provides some support for required core activities.

Yet, the full scope of requests for activities cannot be accommodated within the limits stipulated for the core budget.

Moreover, the increase in the amount of unpaid assessments over the previous two years had affected the Tribunals' core activities.

Regardless of various forms of illegal business and operating licences used to cover up the activities, the crimes are identified and investigated.

Canada, New Zealand and Australia strongly supported the operational activities of the United Nations, as was demonstrated by their significant contributions to the core and non core resources of its funds, programmes and specialized agencies.

Core causes of water sources pollution are related to human activities, such as dumping liquid waste materials from industry and communities.

We therefore call for continued international cooperation with the Agency in order to carry out its core mandate and related activities.

It made voluntary core contributions to several agencies and participated every year in the United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities.

The increasing use of extrabudgetary resources for core activities must be carefully monitored because of its potential to paralyse development work.

Reform of the United Nations system should be accompanied by a substantial and sustained increase of earmarked core funding for operational activities.

In addition to the GHG inventory review activities funded from the core budget, others are supported by voluntary contributions to supplementary funds.

Consequently, in cases where the military is fully engaged in implementing its core mandate, it cannot provide adequate support to humanitarian activities.

Ould Taya also started co operating with the United States in anti terrorism activities, a policy which was criticized by some human rights organizations.

For example, there are no plans to test any of the 143 nuclear power plants currently operating in the European Union for core safety risks, such as a terrorist attack or a plane crash.

Operating System

Operating costs

Another prerequisite was to ensure that development funds were used most efficiently and were devoted to the core function of supporting development activities.

Saudi Arabia estimates that 143 square kilometres of core areas and 629 square kilometres of peripheral areas were damaged because of military activities.

These activities focus on three main objectives mobilization of resources for the core activities under the Convention, broadening the funding base for implementation of the Convention and information systems, knowledge sharing and communication strategy.

It was alarming to note that, for two weeks in September, regular budget activities had had to be financed through cross borrowing and that the non payment of contributions affected the Organization's core activities.

Their need to generate revenue potentially diverts the focus away from core mandates, limits their ability to mainstream activities and increases competition among partners.

The 2004 TCPR emphasized that funding of operational development activities for the United Nations system should focus on long term development and that core resources continue to be the bedrock of United Nations operational activities.

(f) Operating reserve

(j) Operating reserves

Goal 4 Core and non core resources aligned with commitments

As an initial step in this direction, this note identifies seven areas at the interface of corporate activities and economic development as initial core topics.

Core work programme activities with prescribed deadlines Maintenance of systems, databases and clearing houses (e.g. GHG information system) Regulatory functions (e.g. CDM Executive Board, Compliance Committee).

However, some delegations questioned the core functions of UN Oceans in relationship to its proposed inclusion of organizations outside the United Nations system for certain activities.