A. Mission specific costs

A. Mission specific costs

Mission subsistence allowance (total costs)

Mission subsistence allowance (total costs)

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

B. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

24. The Advisory Committee points out that the ratio of mission specific costs to standard costs varies significantly from mission to mission, and adequate explanations have not been provided.

See annex III. Mission subsistence allowance (total costs)

13. Mission subsistence allowance, travel costs and clothing and equipment allowance.

The Committee believes that the budget reports should explain deviations from standard costs and reasons for the application of mission specific costs rather than standard costs.

The mission subsistence allowance constituted a significant portion of overall peacekeeping costs.

Expenditures for common staff costs were also considerably less than the standard costs because of the large number of mission appointees.

Some speakers disagreed, seeing efforts to trim mission costs as a false economy.

Mission specific costs and ratios are set out in detail in annex III.A.

The Observer Mission is responsible for all other operating costs of the aircraft.

For common staff costs, a weighted average per centile of total salaries had been used based on actual costs and by peacekeeping mission.

Table 4 Other travel costs Estimated Between headquarters and the mission area Procurement travel

Introduction of strict mission wide controls restricting telephone and facsimile usage to minimize costs.

Section A provides mission specific costs and ratios, section B provides non recurrent costs and section C provides supplementary explanations on the cost estimates.

In two such cases alone, additional costs to the Organization exceeded 154,000 the Mission should seek reimbursement of the costs from the Governments concerned.

Provision for utilities is based on current costs and consumption levels in the mission area.

Headquarters has also directed the mission to recover the costs of its Post Exchange operations.

However, the mission has reviewed the costs for maintenance based on previous expenditures and current needs.

Nevertheless, this estimate appears to be excessive the Advisory Committee requests the Mission to monitor these costs.

That was the first time that the Administration had deviated from the previous practice of using New York based standard salary costs and making arbitrary mission specific reductions on standard common staff costs to take into account the number of mission appointees.

B. Resources made available and operating costs of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola from inception to 30 June 1998

Some 59 per cent of that amount is based on standard cost ratios and costs contained in the standard ratio cost manual, while 41 per cent covers mission specific costs.

Before a field mission is undertaken, or to update MSA rates, a comprehensive and detailed questionnaire is sent to the missions in order to capture all costs associated with mission service, whether prior to arrival at the mission or after departure from the mission.

The Mission reprioritized funds and deferred some planned expenditures under operational costs in order to absorb these additional requirements within the total amount appropriated for the Mission for 2004 05.

The Mission reprioritized funds and deferred some planned expenditures under operational costs in order to absorb these additional requirements within the total amount appropriated for the Mission for 2004 05.

17. Paragraph 27 of the same report indicates that 22 per cent of the costs for maintaining the Mission have been calculated on the basis of standard cost ratios and costs contained in the standard ratio cost manual, while 78 per cent of those amounts are mission specific requirements.