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Some participants recommended that a regular budget for National Commissions be allocated to increase their capacities.

As regards earmarking of regular programme funds for “cooperation for development”, for the purpose of generating extrabudgetary funds, the point was made that this should only entail modest funds and not be at the expense of other programme activities to be funded from the regular programme.

Under Part II – Programme and Programme Related Services, 52.6% of total regular budget allocation for activities is decentralized to field units where the expenditure rate stands at 81.4%.

[...] [...] resolution 63/294 and the revised estimates requested [...]

Table 1 presents the overall implementation by principal appropriation line for both regular budget and extrabudgetary resources, thereby covering all funds related to each appropriation line.

[...] [...] directory, an initiative being undertaken by the secretariat [...]

[...] the regular budget, through allocations to cluster offices.

Nonetheless, Table 5 shows the 35 C/5 Approved regular budget allocations (indicative budget) for these items of expenditure by principal appropriation line.

Some countries considered that the current proportion of regular budget funds allocated to the programme ($332 million for two years, or 38% of core budget costs) was far too modest and recommended that more funds be transferred from central administration to programmes, and especially to key priorities such as education.

As in previous sessions, this Management Chart being a reporting tool, contains Table 1 which provides the overall status of implementation by principal appropriation line of both regular budget (by staff and activities) and extrabudgetary resources.

The Representative of WHO informed the Commission that currently only approximately 25% of the overall WHO budget comes from regular contributions and 75% from extra budgetary contributions.

This approach was considered more transparent, as it would allow the Member States to clearly view the true level of savings incurred on the various appropriation lines, while understanding that such savings were used to cover other additional expenditure requirements.

The formal Appropriation Resolution would [...] [...]

Being assured of $400,000 for capacity-building in physics and mathematics from an extrabudgetary source during the biennium, the Director-General as an exception decided to use an equivalent amount to respond to the immediate need of SESAME from funds earmarked for UNESCO’s regular contribution to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste.

It is encouraging to note that already (a) the Haiti Office has been able to raise $46,000 from extrabudgetary sources (Canada and France) to complement the allocated funds of $34,000; and (b) the Apia Office has attracted the interest of UNDP and the Education Departments in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

As a result, the Office was diverting regular budget funds to meet costs arising from extrabudgetary activities.

Draft resolution 36 C/DR.54 (France, Albania, Germany, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cyprus, Colombia, Croatia, Ecuador, Spain, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Finland, Gabon, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Morocco, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland, Chad, Tunisia, Turkey, Viet Nam, Ukraine) proposes to modify subparagraph 1(c) (36 C/5 Add.) as follows: “to allocate for this purpose an amount of US $15,708,400 for activity costs, and US $36,504,800 for staff costs and to transfer US $800,000 from Main Line of Action 5 to Main Line of Action 4.

It recapitulates all budget transfers and additional appropriations to the regular budget that were approved by the Executive Board, and presents the expenditures for the principle appropriation lines, therefore showing the surplus or deficit for each line that resulted from the implementation of programmes.

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[...] [...] December 2009 is being funded from within the approved overall appropriation for [...] [...]

(37) Having examined 32 C/DR.20 (submitted by Kenya, supported by Dominica), concerning paragraph 03100 and proposing to add a reference to UNESCO Chairs in Bioethics and requesting a sum of US $40,000 under the regular budget and a sum of US $80,000 from extrabudgetary funds to allow the UNESCO Chair on Bioethics at Egerton University to establish a subregional bioethics documentation centre, the Commission recommended that the General Conference decide that this action be implemented in 2005-2006 on the basis of appropriate strategies for the promotion and development of bioethical reflection at the regional and subregional levels on the understanding that concerns about UNESCO Chairs in Bioethics were already taken into account in the implementation of document 32 C/5.

[...] [...] of Funding under the Funding Approval Schedule.

[...] [...] as amended by the Commission which foresees a total budget provision of $108,468,300, [...] [...]

[...] [...] identify extrabudgetary funds for implementing the proposed activity.

A better aligning of UNESCO office rental prices to the market rate would enable the Organization to redefine a part of regular budget resources for resolving the most urgent problems described in paragraphs 17-22 above.

[...] [...] compared with the revised appropriation for [...] [...]

The Executive Board is requested to approve a total of $117,982,062 in regular resources to fund the approved country programmes of 25 countries for 2011 and 2012, whose indicative regular resources planning levels, based on the modified allocation system and estimated global levels of programmable regular resources, are higher than the balance of approved funds for these countries.

The extension of the term of office of Judge Kevin Parker would require the payment of two additional months of honoraria, while the extension of the term of office of Judge Uldis Kinis would require the payment of three additional months of honoraria, amounting in total to $146,400 above the amount appropriated in the revised appropriation for the biennium 2010-2011.