The predictability and availability of extra budgetary resources were closely linked to that balance.

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

The Replenishment's four year cycle provides greater predictability than the annual or biennial budget processes of the conventions and implementing agencies.

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

At the same time, the fungibility of funding between regular budget and extrabudgetary resources remains a key issue for most specialized agencies, which are increasingly depending on unpredictable supplementary funding to maintain their critical core machinery.

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process and thereby facilitate the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

Unfortunately, that work relied heavily on unpredictable extrabudgetary funding, and when no voluntary contributions were received, the work had to be suspended.

The Perils of Prophecy

For example, although budgeting systems were nearly universally considered to be of the highest importance, Governments differed in their ability to use budgetary tools to predict revenues accurately.

The impact on governance is all too predictable.

Based on the experience gained during the coming two years, it will be possible to predict their contribution to covering the administrative expenses of the CDM when considering the programme budget for the subsequent biennium (2008 2009).

4. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

(d) Unpredictability of forecasting

Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

Governments in a position to do so are encouraged to strengthen the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation by providing non earmarked, predictable funding and regular budget resources for its core programme activities.

The potential negative impact of shortfalls in funds, or their unpredictability, has had to be accepted as a compromise to avoid additional burdens on the budgetary provisions for travel of Experts and General operating expenses for workshop facilities and technical support.

What it is is intelligence is defined by prediction.

And that somehow, prediction leads to intelligent behavior.

It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide, chaotic, unpredictable activity of competition and the evolutionary process of technology is very predictable.

Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.

The online discussion followed a predictable flow.

(b) Breadth, stability, predictability and collectability of revenue

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Material foreseeable risk factors

Financing for rehabilitation is unpredictable.

H. Establish clear and predictable priority rules

To make sure that national planning is substantiated by more predictable funding, we would encourage donors to make predictable multi year pledges.

But predicting how nature works is a very risky game.

Regulators proved unable to forecast and prevent the crisis.

He performed research demonstrating that his theories could predict behavior.

A number of important stakeholders have suggested that, given the unpredictability of extrabudgetary funding and other considerations, UN Habitat could be more effective if it narrowed the scope of its programme and focused on fewer activities.

And I should say, I think this is a rather modest prediction.

Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't.

After all, the good of democratic structures is their predictability.

Traffic that is never ceasing and never predictable

Recurrence intervals of these events are neither regular nor predictable.

It is impossible to predict an exact prognosis during pregnancy or the neonatal period.

The availability of supplementary funds is unpredictable and impermanent.

What is most alarming is that this crisis is predictable and preventable.

They are predictable, widely known and consistently enforced, without discrimination.

Committing to pledge funding in a more predictable manner

Facilitate enforcement of creditor's rights in a predictable and efficient manner

It has also been stressed that additional improvement of effectiveness requires mobilization of more predictable extrabudgetary resources to further enhance the selective and flexible mode of operation which UNCTAD has applied to circumvent insecure field conditions and to sustain progress.

Table 13.2 Summary of publications (regular budget and extrabudgetary)

Unpredictable human psychology also plays a role.