2005 12 Recovery of indirect costs for co financing

2005 18 UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery

The projections for future years take into account higher other resources expenditure levels and increased recovery offset following the adoption of the new UNICEF recovery policy.

Costs are charged to projects, ensuring full cost recovery.

Welcomes the participation of UNDP in the work of the UNDG Management Group with regard to further harmonization of cost recovery principles and refining the criteria for cost recovery rates

In 2004, UNCDF Local Development built on existing partnerships and established new ones, with the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, the Africa Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UN Habitat, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), and the World Bank. In addition,

Additional resources will be hired on an as needed, full cost recovery basis.

Adopted decision 2005 18 of 22 June 2005 on UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery.

Emphasizes that the measures to be taken in line with this decision are a foundation for the future, but do not exclude provision of services to clients in situations and circumstances other than those cited above, so long as UNOPS can provide satisfactory services at full cost recovery while ensuring its financial viability

Adopted decision 2005 12 of 28 January 2005 on the recovery of indirect costs for co financing

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

Took note of document DP 2005 CRP.4 on reporting of UNDP income from cost recovery

These should be included under a contractual agreement between the organizations, indicating the agreed level of service and the financial commitments for both parties (fees, cost recovery mechanisms or other financial arrangements).

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

The private sector has typically stayed out, owing to long cost recovery periods, small market size, and lack of consumer credit.

9 WFP has a relatively simple and transparent system in place that ensures that recovery from supplementary contributions covers all incremental costs plus an appropriate share of administrative costs (called indirect support costs in WFP terminology).

Takes note of the conference room paper on criteria for the determination of project specific cost recovery rates (DP 2005 CRP.5)

While continuing to provide a range of service lines, UNOPS will rationalize and streamline its corporate and support structures to reduce its fixed cost base, introduce activity based costing, and price its services to ensure full cost recovery.

Markets and clients would remain diverse, necessitating a more geographically dispersed support structure than for option one, but portfolios would be subject to full cost recovery, assured by improved pricing though activity based costing processes.

They cannot justify developing new drugs unless they can expect to recoup their costs through sales.

The additional recovery income offsets the growth in support budget expenditures, thus maximizing the funds available for programme assistance.

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.

Governments lack both the means and motivation, owing to their inability to recoup costs from poor villagers, often because subsidized electricity prices depress revenues.

Asset recovery

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

An outstanding question is the extent to which cost recovery should also make a contribution to the basic administrative costs of the organization and to some part of the programme support costs that cannot be clearly attributed to any specific programme activity.

Recovery of payments

Recovery of maintenance

(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.

As a result of potentially not recovering all costs incurred on all projects accepted prior to 28 April 2005, UNOPS may not have sufficient funds to contribute to the operational reserve.

Recovery of indebtedness to the Fund

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

Reductions in subsidies and improved cost recovery for those who can afford to pay can help to finance operation and maintenance costs, ensure quality and reliability of service and encourage water use efficiency.

Each country could establish the proper mechanism and extent of cost recovery that best serves its own needs, priorities and culture, recognizing that no one size fits all.

Local authorities could be supported through national and international programmes of capacity building, including training in formulating and negotiating contracts, financial administration and cost recovery mechanisms, community involvement and accountability.

OIOS observed that in some instances, requests from HOAs could not be fulfilled for reasons such as priority access and unresolved cost recovery arrangements.

Option 2 maintains the current wider range of service offerings, but proposes cuts to its fixed costs, rationalization of its structures, and a phasing out of portfolios where full cost recovery is not achievable.

In paragraph 48 of its report, the Board reiterated its recommendation that UNICEF amend the presentation of its financial statement for cost recovery or submit a new definition of programme support expenditure to its Executive Board.

Today, the establishment of several thousand women's groups throughout the country responds to the concern of development agencies to organize the recovery of loans granted to women on the basis of solidarity group lending schemes.

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

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

In order to increase the clarity of the budget presentation in respect of separating costs that are not directly linked to the delivery of any given programme, this charge has now been established as an individual item under indirect costs and both the budget base and the resource requirements have been adjusted accordingly.

Assets Recovery and International Mutual Legal Cooperation Department (DRCI), of the Ministry of Justice its areas of responsibility are Asset Recovery and International Judicial Cooperation.