All Member States must pay their assessed contributions to the regular and peacekeeping budgets in full and on time.

(c) Further support and streamlining of budget revision processes

General Trust Fund for the Operational Budget (RO)

The support provided by the Union covers all sectors, and includes budget support.

Requirements for headquarters and field operations are supported from the budget for the Fund of UNDCP (the Fund budget) and a programme support cost budget project activities are covered under the Fund budget.

One finances the cost of a field base and the other finances the cost of peacekeeping backstopping activities at Headquarters.

Despite the general trend towards expansion, the programme budget had grown modestly, with increased sums for priority areas being covered by a reallocation of resources within the approved budget outline.

a Formerly the Information Support Unit.

(a) A general trust fund for the operational budget

B. Revised estimates of general and project expenditures

It is estimated that 50 per cent of the Section s Professional resources and 60 per cent of its General Service resources were utilized for the support of peacekeeping operations and that the remaining 50 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, are equally divided among the transactions in support of the regular budget and extrabudgetary activities.

Part of this budget (for medical care) was administered at the local level.

The subprogramme is also supported by 28 posts (23 Professional and 5 General Service) funded by extrabudgetary resources.

The best way of providing development support is through budget support.

A 15 per cent of the budget is generally allocated to scientific research.

Provisional budget for 1995 Preliminary

Requirements were redeployed from the Fund budget to the programme support cost budget, while maintaining the overall budget level.

23.46 The subprogramme is also supported by 37 posts (28 Professional and 9 General Service) funded by extrabudgetary resources.

There were, nevertheless, a number of budget sections that did not provide a list of discontinued recurrent outputs because of the generic description given for core ongoing outputs.

Status of the general trust fund for the operational budget (RO)

The total number of General Service staff is evenly divided between the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources.

UNDCP activities in this area are supported through regular budget resources.

The rate of increase in the budget for the support account was far greater than that of the budgets for peacekeeping missions.

Abbreviations RB, regular budget LL, Local level XB, extrabudgetary GS (OL), General Service (Other level).

The contributions of the European Union to the Trust Fund for East Timor have represented almost two thirds of the total financial envelope, while budget support from the Union has represented one third of the international community's total budget support.

The P 5 post and three General Service posts are funded by the UN regular budget the P 4 post and one General Service post are funded by extrabudgetary funds.

quot Biennial administrative and programme support costs budget quot was replaced by quot biennial core and programme support budget quot and quot Fund account quot was replaced by quot general fund or programme support fund quot .

Office of Operations

The budget is based on estimations of the expected level of voluntary contributions to the general and earmarked funds as well as the level of expenditures required to supplement the United Nations regular budget resources to implement the Centre apos s programme and to provide the necessary programme support.

Donors have introduced changes in aid modalities, increasing the use of sector wide approaches and budget support modalities (general or direct budget support) that significantly affect the way in which development cooperation is programmed, organized, delivered and financed.

Budget Overruns

20. The Accounts Division provides backstopping support not only to peacekeeping operations but also for regular budget and extrabudgetary activities.

Provision of support is, for the most part, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources.

15. In South Africa, UNIFEM has continued to support the Women s Budget initiative.

The budget aims for fiscal revenues to the extent of 1 billion, though donor support will have to cover a deficit of more than 1.17 billion.

On the other hand, investment in technology over the last three years has resulted in continued stabilization of the new budget information system of the Division and faster processing of technical budgetary actions, leading to savings in workload equivalent to one General Service (Other level) post.

A number of other delegations supported that general position.

Maintenance budget

54. He reaffirmed his support for the concept and practice of programme budgeting.

This cost would be evenly spread over staff in posts in the General Service and related categories under the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources.

(b) Central support services (regular budget extrabudgetary)

One Budget Assistant, national General Service staff (new post).

(c) Approves the revised 1998 General Programmes budget amounting to 428,973,500 9

The French government expects budget revenues to match all spending except debt service by 2014. But that forecast assumes continued growth, whereas France is slipping into recession.

Recommendation 6. Project activities should not be part of the biennial budget, but supporting information on project activities should be provided as part of the budget submission.