Staff ratio

Personnel costs would also be lower, since local staff was paid far less than internationally recruited staff.

Due to the exchange rate fluctuations and increase in staff costs, there was an overexpenditure in sections Staff costs and Operating expenditures .

The cost estimate for item 18, Support Account for Peace keeping Operations, had included 8.5 per cent of the costs of international contractual personnel since they were encumbering posts normally filled by United Nations staff.

In 1992 1993, the ratio of TSS expenditure to approved budget was 92.3 per cent.

In 2005, the proportion of staff from offices away from Headquarters reached a level of 48 per cent, while the proportions of staff from Headquarters and staff from field missions were reduced to 27 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively.

The share of staff from Eastern Europe and NIS amounts to 11 per cent.

Thirty one per cent decreased their expenditures, and 4 per cent remained at approximately the same ratio of gross national product.

The APSS expenditure against the 1992 1993 appropriation was 84.2 per cent.

Expenditures of the Tribunal are accounted for on an accrual basis, except for those relating to staff entitlements, which are accounted for on the basis of cash disbursements.

26. In accordance with General Assembly resolution 48 226 C of 29 July 1994, savings of 5,600 under this heading reflect the application of the 8.5 per cent rate to the actual expenditure for civilian staff expenses.

The Advisory Committee notes that numerous factors have an impact on General Service to Professional ratios, including technological innovations.

As a proportion of the whole, staff from Headquarters seeking assistance was reduced to 30 per cent, while the proportions of staff from offices away from Headquarters and staff from peacekeeping missions were 41 per cent and 29 per cent, respectively.

Women were more mobile than men they accounted for 64 per cent of the staff members who had served at two duty stations and for 63 per cent of those who had served at three duty stations.

Examples include projects concerning commodity trade, competition law and policies, biotrade, assessment of trade in services, commercial diplomacy, FDI statistics, support for investment promotion agencies, international investment agreements, support for trade facilitation policy makers and negotiators, corporate transparency, insurance markets, e commerce and e tourism, assistance on science and technology policies, and EMPRETEC.

UNICEF estimates that health and nutrition combined will represent 75 per cent of total programme expenditure for this focus area.

Thirty three per cent of Professional staff, including national and junior professionals, are now female.

5. DESD project personnel proportion of international recruits from developing countries, 1992 . 31

This proposal is reflected each year in staff costs, for a total of six (6) persons, for which table 1 below supplies estimates.

62. The estimate under this heading is based on 8.5 per cent of the total cost for salaries, common staff costs and travel of the civilian staff members in the mission area.

A recent survey said that 27 percent of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their firm.

In some organizations, substantive departments were now required to allocate a percentage of their own budgets to staff training.

The request submitted by the three regions was confined to coverage of the salaries of a small staff.

Expenditure 12. All expenditure of UNICEF is accounted for on an accrual basis, except for that relating to staff entitlements, which is accounted for on the basis of cash disbursements only.

27. The 1994 revised estimate includes provisions for the staffing and operating costs of the office in Hargeisa and for two operational bases in Boroma and Borao.

c Includes interest and miscellaneous income

Other 40 377.84

Other 23.0 b

MISCELLANEOUS

Other expenditures 25 083.5 30 217.6 (8 885.5) (29.4) 21 332.1 2 233.4 23 565.5

expenditure

Travel costs

Operating expenditures 36 184.0 32 637.1

Other 4.2 2.0

Miscellaneous 2 023.41

Other 51.3 37.8

Cash outlay, 8.60.

Due to the above, as well as higher than anticipated staff costs, 1993 expenditures exceeded the revised allocation.

The staff gender distribution was 67 per cent male and 33 per cent female.

It is projected to be slightly higher in 2005, at 11.9 per cent, with 15.6 per cent for staff in the Professional and higher categories and 9.4 per cent for staff in the General Service and related categories.

In 1990 1991 these amounted to 25.3 per cent of peace keeping expenditures, as compared with 58 per cent under the original formula.

11. In 1992 1993, the ratio of project expenditures to project allocations was 78.5 per cent, compared to 89.4 per cent for the previous biennium.

The proportion of staff from this category seeking assistance has ranged from 33 to 44 per cent over the reporting period.

The ratio of computer terminals to staff in headquarters is 1 to 1, and all the field offices are equipped with computers.

a Actual expenditures.