Funding modalities voluntary funding, assessed contributions and negotiated replenishments

Such a reflection must encompass basic modalities of funding.

Funding modalities such as assessed, negotiated and voluntary contributions should be further analysed.

These innovative funding modalities could be combined for different organizations of the United Nations system in several alternative ways and harmonized with current modalities.

The trend in funding modalities was a stronger emphasis on budget and sector programme support.

It was essential that the funding modalities for operational activities for development should be reviewed.

With regard to cooperation among agencies, speakers noted that funding modalities resulted in competitive relationships among the organizations.

One approach that has been pursued in recent years is to take current funding modalities as given and adopt a short term funding strategy that maximizes supplementary funding, corrected for a number of elements, as indicated above.

22. Recognizes the establishment of thematic trust funds, multi donor trust funds and other voluntary non earmarked funding mechanisms linked to organization specific funding frameworks and strategies established by the respective governing bodies as funding modalities complementary to regular budgets

There was also a need to study new funding modalities and innovative mechanisms which took account of the interests of all the developing countries.

Action to ensure that the level of United Nations development cooperation funding is adequate should be accompanied by measures to introduce much greater predictability and long term stability to such funding than are provided under the present modalities.

Takes note also of the report of the Secretary General on funding options and modalities for financing operational activities for development of the United Nations system

All funding modalities must be explored, and Indonesia was convinced in that connection that the donor community should ensure that the United Nations development system was provided with adequate funding to create a solid and reliable base for operational activities without any conditions being attached.

While the programmatic implications of these new delivery modalities for United Nations system support are progressively emerging, their implications for the funding of the system's country level activities remain unclear.

(c) Report of the Secretary General on funding options and modalities for financing operational activities for development of the United Nations system (resolution 59 250), A 60 83 E 2005 72

VIII. Working modalities

The debate on funding options and modalities to which the present report is intended to contribute should address, and, hopefully, serve to advance, all of these dimensions in a mutually reinforcing way.

It had before it the report of the Secretary General on funding options and modalities for financing operational activities for development of the United Nations system (A 60 83 E 2005 72).

The GM and the members of its Facilitation Committee should play an important role in identifying case by case, for specific countries, points of entry into processes and modalities of international funding.

(b) Modalities of work

Examples of financing modalities

Scope and modalities of review

Scope and modalities of review

In order to address this vulnerability, some Member States argue that distinct methodologies and different funding modalities should be used to finance the basic administrative infrastructure and the core programme capacity of the various entities.

Thus, the conclusion cannot be escaped that present practices governing both assessed contributions and voluntary funding modalities have not succeeded in securing an adequate volume of core or regular resources for the United Nations development system.

Comment by the Administration. In preparing the budget for the biennium 2004 2005, the Tribunal discussed with the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts the modalities of funding mechanisms which would cater for such liabilities.

Modalities for giving effect to State immunity

Modalities and procedures for a clean development mechanism

Modalities of indigenous children being involved in child labour.

D. Modalities for bringing together and evaluating the information

The feasibility of these modalities should be further tested.

Substantive progress has not taken place on the modalities.

The first approximation for the modalities was expected to provide the ground to reach an agreement on the full modalities at the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference.

Funding

The modalities of the force's composition should be defined promptly.

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities

Extrabudgetary funding

Programme funding

Funding targets

They hoped to be able to develop modalities for enhanced cooperation.

Draft simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities

(e) To that end, innovative modalities and increased cooperation are needed.

A steering committee will elaborate modalities and staffing plans (both priorities).

Human resource contracting modalities must be flexible in option one environments.

In addition, the discussions covered issues pertaining to modalities of donor sensitization and funds mobilization, options for programme development and implementation modalities, and the time frame for the work ahead.