C. Civilian staff costs

CIVILIAN STAFF AND RELATED COSTS

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Other staff costs (increase 698,100)

(c) Report on common staff costs (SPLOS 127)

Table 1.2 Standard staff costs (based on United Nations standard salary costs for Geneva)

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

Staff costs account for 64 per cent of the regular budget, of which 60 per cent represents the cost of area staff and four per cent represents the cost of international staff.

Staff costs have been shown on a net basis under section 3 above.

(a) Salaries and related staff costs 649,700.

Separation costs are charged to the period in which payment is made.

Staff productivity and cost elements should be considered together because staff cost structures differ across duty stations, in particular between field and Headquarters locations.

(308 posts) 1 P 5, 3 P 4 (1 P 4d),

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

For example, it was not possible to match salary costs and travel expenditure to the individual staff members concerned.

Welcomes the use, in the proposed budgets for 2005 06, of a new methodology for budgeting international staff costs

Field operating costs have been reduced by 1,147,800 and the new staffing structure resulted in lower staff costs.

The international organizations based at the Vienna International Centre are to bear the cost of moving staff to and from the temporary office facilities.

The Staff College could monitor and evaluate the cost effectiveness of the e learning programmes currently offered by United Nations agencies.

While most of the costs of the workshops were covered under the project, additional support for travel costs of a few participants as well as for the travel of staff was received from individual donor countries.

Secondary schools are public schools school buildings and education professionals' salaries are provided for from the Republika Srpska budget, and material costs are paid by the local community.

Yet the farther inland producers went, the less skilled the employees and the higher the costs of transporting goods to market became.

Of the expenditures reported by implementing partners against UNHCR instalments, 127 million corresponds to salaries and other staff costs.

(i) Staff costs This continues to be subject to the provisions of financial regulations 4.2(b) and 4.2(c)

For 2004, a United Nation Regular Budget allotment advice was received for an amount of 27,749,500, covering staff and other management and administration costs, including the posts of the High Commissioner and the Deputy High Commissioner.

Finally, a provision of 212,200, including staffing costs, is made for the maintenance of the Liaison Office in Brussels, as explained above.

He also noted the recommendation of the contact group that a special contingency reserve in the amount of 380,000 be created to fund that staff in the event that the in kind contributions ceased.

Capacity building of the PPAF will support operating costs, staff training, technical assistance for various studies and cost of fixed assets. The Fund has a special focus on women.

The remaining portion represents support costs and items budgeted centrally, including working capital and area staff salary increase requirements.

For the year 2004 only, the Government has provided tax incentives to encourage more small and medium sized companies to contribute towards their employees' childcare costs.

The resources requested by the Secretary Chief Executive Officer for the biennium 2006 2007 comprised 61,881,300 for administrative costs, 66,757,800 for investment costs and 1,720,600 for audit costs.

30.14 The structure of the secretariat of the Commission remains unchanged. It includes the Office of the Executive Secretary, the Cost of Living Division, the Personnel Policies Division and the Salaries and Allowances Division.

The amount of 1,075,000 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for five continuing posts and one additional post (P 3).

Management ascribed the lower spending rate to, inter alia, planning for increased personnel costs during 2005 on account of launching the UNIDO UNDP cooperation and preparing for an increased staff turnover due to staff reaching retirement age or leaving the organisation in 2005.

Staff costs increased, by 21.7 per cent ( 67 million), and so did grants in lump sum (31.5 per cent), and individual and family payments (47.8 per cent).

Staff costs increased, by 21.7 per cent ( 67 million), and so did grants in lump sum (31.5 per cent) and individual and family payments (47.8 per cent).

These savings are offset in part by higher requirements under other staff costs ( 698,100), contractual services ( 1,530,100), improvement of premises ( 299,800), grants and contributions ( 976,000) and staff assessment ( 371,500).

1.66 Health Programme The resource growth over 2004 2005 appropriations is attributed to staff requirements and increases in hospitalization costs, medical supplies and patient subsidies.

Even after discounting the consulting and technical assistance costs, countries still have to earmark huge amounts of resources for staff training, project implementation and monitoring, and report writing as well as for the day to day management and coordination of reform projects.

Staff costs, support costs and operating and other overhead expenses comprised 11.6 per cent, 3.8 per cent and 3.9 per cent, respectively, of the total cost of the project.

In paragraph 379, the Board recommended that UNICEF adopt and implement a methodology to determine the total costs, including staff costs, of its major information technology projects.

Under investment cost, the Secretary Chief Executive Officer explained that the additional resources requested were directly linked to the recommendations made in the report of Deloitte and Touche on the investment process, operations and organization of the Investment Management Service.

To facilitate comparability with the programme of work and budget proposals of other organizations of the United Nations system, the staff costs are shown net of staff assessment under the various expenditure sections of the programme budget.

The costs of supporting this activity, which is central to the assessment of implementation of the Convention by Annex I Parties, are borne from the core budget, mainly under the objects of expenditure of Experts and Travel of staff.

Under non post objects of expenditure, the resources relate to general temporary assistance, overtime, consultants, travel of staff and other operational costs, such as general operating expenses, supplies and equipment.