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External sources (not reviewed)

At the time of budget preparation, the budget provisions for staff costs were calculated on the basis of average “standard costs”, with a fixed reduction for staff turnover of 3% for each post.

[...] anticipated reduced costs for temporary assistance for meetings, in view of the use of external translators in place of costlier [...] [...]

[...] [...] increased use of contractual translation in lieu of temporary [...]

[...] [...] interpreters and 40 per cent for translators, meaning that competitive [...] [...]

Students with disability may use course book and note subsidy in the case of special-note and note-substituting technical tools promoting other preparation methods in harmony with the provisions of the organisational and operating rules of institutes of higher education.

[...] for interpreters and translators for the period 2010-2016 [...] [...]

The funds should not be taken from the Participation Programme as its present allocation was already insufficient to meet current needs.

The mission also received reports from Chuquisaca that elderly Guaraníes collecting Renta Dignidad (a non-contributive universal old age pension) were having it “kept for” them by the hacienda owner, who had given them some very low-value kitchen utensils in return.

[...] [...] price of imported alternatives and the correct [...]

[...] [...] "resources" and substitute with "saved due to the drop in the primary and secondary school student population to provide training for teachers on"; to delete ", weigh the commitments of both the Government and parents and, by ensuring that complementing training for teachers is available" before ", progressively implement small class teaching" and substitute with "and, through a 'by district and by grade' mode of transition"; to delete "in" after "progressively implement small class teaching" and substitute with ", starting [...] [...]

The provision would provide for specialized expertise not available in the Organization, outside the scope of the systems integration contract, in the area of change management, in technical areas, including mobile technology, report design and implementation, data warehousing and business intelligence, and in functional areas, including travel, central services, field operations and logistics, payroll, budgeting and planning, as well as management consultants to cross-check the project management services provided by the main contractor/systems integrator.

International Pen was also concerned about the existence of “blasphemy” laws, under which a number of writers and publishers had been charged and imprisoned and sentenced [...] [...]

With regard to the possible funding of future cluster consultations, participants felt that this should be a charge against the regular budget and that specific provisions should be included among the indirect costs for each cluster office.

(B) If any member shall surrender for cancellation a share certificate representing shares held by him and request the Company to issue in lieu two or more share certificates representing such shares in such proportions as he may specify, the Board may, if it thinks fit, comply with such request subject to the payment of such sum (not exceeding, in the case of any share capital listed on a stock exchange in Hong Kong, the maximum amount prescribed or permitted from time to time by such stock exchange, and, in the case of any other share capital, such sum in such currency as the Board may from time to time determine to be reasonable in the territory in which the relevant register is situate, or otherwise in each case such other sum as the Board may from time to time determine) for every certificate after the first, as the Board shall from time to time determine.

(D) The Company may upon the recommendation of the Board by ordinary resolution resolve in respect of any one particular dividend of the Company that notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (A) of this Bye-law a dividend may be satisfied wholly in the form of an allotment of shares credited as fully paid up without offering any right to shareholders to elect to receive such dividend in cash in lieu of such allotment.

The Committee has previously noted that some of those posts are subject to a quick turnover and has stressed the importance of making efforts to obtain the sustained commitment of those entities to provide assignments of seconded personnel of longer duration, in order to ensure stability of functions (A/64/7, para. II.28).