The Board Cost overruns in project implementation

The Board examined 11 of these project proposals.

The Board notes the progress made in monitoring project budgets.

The Board considers that project managers should approve the requisitions.

Registration is the formal acceptance by the Executive Board of a validated project as a CDM project activity.

33. The Board was concerned about the control over project expenditure.

The Board of Trustees examined 63 applications and recommended 25 project grants.

Project participants and the DOE which validated the proposed project activity shall be notified of the decision by the Executive Board.

The Executive Board shall bear the costs for reviewing a proposed project activity.

To assess this process, the Board examined 12 project proposals prepared in 1996 1997.

Registration is the formal acceptance by the Executive Board of a validated project as an afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM.

The Executive Board shall notify the project participants and the DOE which validated the proposed project activity that a review has been requested.

The Board notes that, as at May 2005, the 2004 project budgets in Atlas for project delivery had been exceeded by 40.3 million.

The Board recommends that the United Nations Office for Project Services remind field offices to evaluate the work of national professional project personnel.

100. Project monitoring reports do not identify or analyse expenditure against estimates and budgets. The Board considers this a serious omission, which weakens cost control and makes project managers less accountable for their performance. The Board recommends that UNDP ensure that project status reports include summaries of project expenditure against lifetime and biennial budgets.

24. The Board recommended that the Administration intensify its efforts to obtain project monitoring reports.

The Board notes that 2004 project expenditures exceeded approved 2004 project budgets in Atlas by 40.3 million, of which a sample 23.2 million was tested.

48. The Board notes that project management officers are now required to record their estimates of costs with forecast fee income information on project files.

The Board of Auditors has audited the operations of the United Nations Office for Project Services.

However, the Board found little evidence that evaluations of national professional project personnel s work were conducted.

UNFPA had erroneously assumed that losses of project equipment need not be reported to the Board.

Project participants shall address the concerns and supply relevant additional information Provide a verification report to the project participants, the Parties involved and the Executive Board.

Project participants involved in small scale CDM project activities may propose changes to the simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies specified in appendix B or propose additional project categories for consideration by the Executive Board.

It will include project listings, calls for project proposals, discussion groups, searchable databases on selected aspects of watershed management, a watershed map library and a notice board.

42. The Board recommends that the United Nations Office for Project Services apply more rigorously its policy not to recruit government officials as national professional project personnel.

56. The Board recommends that the United Nations Office for Project Services should regularly review the database.

43. The Board noted that national execution accounted for the smallest proportion of the Programme s project allocations.

93. The Board welcomes these actions to identify and remedy the causes of delays in project delivery.

b Paragraphs 8 to 10 of the simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities allow for project participants to submit a new small scale project activity category or revisions to a methodology to the Executive Board for consideration and amendment of appendix B by the Executive Board, as appropriate.

The registration by the Executive Board shall be deemed final eight weeks after the date of receipt by the Executive Board of the request for registration, unless a Party involved in the project activity or at least three members of the Executive Board request a review of the proposed CDM project activity.

31. Although the Board recognizes that the Trust Fund Unit is no longer involved in preparing project proposals, the Board recommends that, in general, missions establish proper separation of duties between the functions of project formulation, payment authorization and verification of work completed.

65. In November 1995, the Project Advisory Board held a meeting which evaluated the project and discussed future trends of cooperation between the European Community ESA and ASEAN.

The Board considers that the absence of complete records for a project at one place weakens the review of individual projects and the overall effectiveness of project delivery.

The Chief of the Unit is a member of the Senior Management Board and the Project Review Committee.

These experiments are being performed on board the Mir station within the framework of the EUROMIR 95 project.

Upon request, the Executive Board may, however, allow a single designated operational entity to perform all these functions within a single CDM project activity Maintain a publicly available list of all CDM project activities for which it has carried out validation, verification and certification Submit an annual activity report to the Executive Board Make information obtained from CDM project participants publicly available, as required by the Executive Board.

In the area of programme and project management, UNDP acknowledges the priority attached by the Board to monitoring the correlation between reported expenditures and the project implementation status (para.

57. The Board considers that the objectives of the project were not achieved largely because the letter of instruction was issued five months after the commencement of the project.

The Executive Board shall consider simplification of the leakage calculation for any other project categories added to appendix B.

The Board considers that it is necessary that the project database contain complete information for effective monitoring of programmes.

On the subject of project supervision, project managers are acutely aware of the Board of Auditors comments and are maximizing their efforts to ensure that contractor performance meets required standards.

2.1 In April 1995, the National Board of Health and Welfare advertised a vacancy for a post of researcher project coordinator with the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).

Project participants involved in small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM may propose changes to the simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies specified in appendix B or propose additional project types for consideration by the Executive Board.

The Department of Management will prepare a high level business case2 for this project for submission to the Information and Communications Technology Board Project Review Committee by the end of 2005.

The Executive Board shall develop simplified baseline methodologies for the following types of small scale afforestation or reforestation project activities