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External sources (not reviewed)

temporary assistance, due to a higher vacancy rate of 50.3 per cent for national General Service staff, as compared with the budgeted rate of 15 per cent, partially offset by the need to hire individual contractors in remote areas to maintain UNMIS facilities.

into account the effect of annual leave and the sixweek cycle of occupational recuperation break applicable for Darfur.

compared to 9 per cent budgeted and the absence of staff from the mission area owing to various measures following the earthquake; and (c) reduced requirements related to the implementation of new contractual arrangements approved by the General Assembly in resolution 63/250.

replacement of vehicles and generators and the refurbishment of the headquarters complex in Islamabad in order to extend the useful life of prefabricated structures beyond 2012.

Mission area due to various measures following the earthquake; and (c) the inadvertent recording of expenditures related to special measures under the class of other supplies, services and equipment.

cent compared with 9 per cent budgeted and the absence of staff from the Mission area following the earthquake.

the conversion of some staff from the 300 series to the 100 series; partly offset by reduced payments for mission subsistence allowance for international staff.

2010; and (b) United Nations Volunteers, due to a 17.3 per cent actual vacancy rate, as compared with the budgeted rate of 30 per cent, as well as the deployment of an additional 79 international volunteers in support of the elections, and an increase in their living allowance.

mission personnel due to the prevailing security situation in the mission area.

staff with effect from March 2011 (A/66/745, para. 211).

to the mission area; and a decrease of $5,885,800 in the requirements for general temporary assistance, attributable mainly to the abolishment of 49 positions following the completion of the electoral process and completion of activities related to the deployment of additional military personnel.

of national staff costs, from G-3 step 10 to G-3 step 8, in order to take into account the historical pattern of the Mission.

exceptional cases of staff who remained in the same duty station at the explicit request of an Organization, or for compelling humanitarian reasons, payment of the mobility allowance for a maximum period of one additional year, that is, for an overall period of six years.

in actual costs for that allowance, although the overall financial impact should be minimal as UNESCO has few staff serving in these duty stations.

responsible for economic disintegration.7 President Mugabe’s party lumps the targeted sanctions together with suspension of most government-to-government development aid and IFI restrictions, including suspension of balance-of-payments support.8 Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono describes the latter as “undeclared sanctions”.9 The combination of measures, it can be said, “has exacerbated Zimbabwe’s sovereign risk status” and “negatively affected a range of bilateral lending to Zimbabwe including from the private sector”.10 Yet, more resources have come into Zimbabwe from those imposing the sanctions over the last decade than in the pre-sanctions decade.

at the expense of the United Nations, and propose measures aimed at harmonizing travel policies and practices throughout the organizations of the United Nations system.