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External sources (not reviewed)

Utilization of Part IV of the budget to finance additional costs arising from statutory and inflation costs

The Secretariat will continue to closely monitor the actual staff cost expenditures and needs, and

Specific activities included the development of a series of learning and teaching materials in the engineering sciences; publications in the series include “Small is Working: Technology for Poverty Reduction” – a video and associated booklet, “Rays of Hope: Renewable Energy in the Pacific” – also a video and associated booklet, “Solar

The attached report, submitted to the Executive Board as document 167 EX/33, incorporates the

The Commission took note of document 34 C/REP/19 entitled “Report by the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2006-2007)” and recommended that the General Conference adopt the resolution proposed in paragraph 06000 of Volume 1 of document 34 C/5 2nd version as amended

In accordance with Article 12 of the Financial Regulations, 167 EX/Decision 7.5, 170 EX/Decision 7.4 and 171 EX/Decision 41, the Director-General presents herewith an updated report on the status of implementation of the External Auditor’s recommendations contained in the long-form reports of the External Auditor on the accounts of UNESCO for the 1998-1999, 2000-2001 and 2002-2003 biennia, and the report on performance audits undertaken in 20022003 detailing the specific measures adopted for

However in the light of the relatively high level of staff cost savings observed thus far, mainly due to the transition to a new

In accordance with Article 12.10 of the Financial Regulations and 175 EX/Decision 33, the Director General reports on the status of implementation of recommendations

In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food

Regarding funding support for the arts groups, members in generally considered that the Administration should (a) ensure a reasonable and fair distribution of funding resources amongst arts groups; (b) review the existing mode of subsidy for the major performing arts groups to avoid stifling the development of non-subvented commercial arts groups; (c) provide more funding for the support of small and medium sized arts groups and budding artists; (d) explore means to minimize staffing and administrative expenses in the operation of arts programmes so that the savings could be re-allocated to the use of arts development; (e)