The rates and standard costs utilized in the recosting include inflation and exchange rates, standard salary costs, common staff costs and vacancy rates.

Provision for common staff costs has been reduced by a 5 per cent turnover factor.

Provision is made for international civilian staff at the rates indicated in annex II.A, with the application of a vacancy factor of 5 per cent.

Provision for medical supplies is based on the monthly rate of 1 per person for 45,130 person months (compared to a standard rate of 28 per person per month).

Cost parameters application of revised rates

Provision is also made for 18 bottles of 1.5 litres of bottled water per person per week for one month for contingency purposes for military personnel and support personnel, at a rate of 0.225 per bottle ( 25,100).

On the basis of the new standard salary costs, version 20, issued by the United Nations, the common staff costs rate applicable to The Hague has been fixed at 47.52 per cent of net salary costs for 2005.

Provision of 21,900 is made for daily allowance for incidental personal expenses to be paid to all military personnel at a rate of 1.28 per person day for 17,100 person days

Staff and other personnel costs

Provision is made for the round trip rotation travel for 195 military observers at the rate of 4,000.

12. Some 30 per cent of this amount is based on standard cost ratios and costs contained in the standard ratio cost manual, while some 70 per cent is based on mission specific costs and ratios.

Instead of the principle of cost coverage, quot prospective quot rates ( quot per diem rates quot ) have to be agreed upon.

Provision is made for common staff cost rates for internationally recruited staff ( 1,583,800) and for locally recruited staff ( 420,000).

Common staff costs (total costs)

Provision is made for a daily allowance for incidental personal expenses to 1,230 contingent personnel at the rate of 1.28 per person per day.

Costing adjustments include changes in standard costs such as exchange rates, inflation rates or standard salary costs.

Estimated exchange rates, inflation rates and salary costs were used as provided by the field offices.

Provision of 10,000 is made under uniform items, flags and decals for military accoutrements ( 8,000), at a rate of 35 per person, for 229 military personnel and for the cost of uniforms ( 2,000) for the proposed two additional Field Service staff.

Transaction costs and efficiency

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.

Some 64 per cent of the cost is based on standard cost ratios and costs contained in the standard ratio cost manual, while the remaining 36 per cent covers mission specific requirements.

1. Military personnel costs

Recosting to preliminary 2006 2007 rates

B. Mission specific costs and ratios

A. Mission specific costs and ratios

a Salary costs are based on the 1999 rates.

The provision of 105,700 was based on standard rates applicable to military contingents.

An amount of 112,100 provides for accoutrements for police monitors, military observers and military liaison officers at a rate of 35 per person for 12 months ( 72,100).

C. Transaction costs and efficiency

Transaction costs and efficiency

Summer rate applies for September 1998.

1. Military personnel costs

1. Military personnel costs

2. Military contingents.

Annex I for offset.

Provision of 6,000 is made for the cost of replacing accoutrements, blue berets and United Nations decals for contingent personnel and uniforms for local and Field Service personnel at a cost of 500 per month

This was primarily due to exchange rate fluctuations between the United States dollar and the euro increase in the standard costs for staff and common staff costs applied within the United Nations common system and increases in the daily subsistence allowance rate for Hamburg as determined by the International Civil Service Commission.

Military and police personnel costs would increase by 40.5 per cent, civilian personnel costs by 1.3 per cent and operational costs by 48.9 per cent.

In annex II, section B, paragraph 1, it is further indicated that salaries and common staff costs for international staff are estimated using the Rome standard cost rates, while those for locally recruited staff are based on the salary established for the duty station.

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Provision is made for the procurement of United Nations accoutrements for 120 military observers at a cost of 35 per military observer ( 4,200) and uniforms for 16 Field Service officers at a rate of 1,000 per person per year ( 16,000).

Also, the financial efficiency of the organization improved, resulting in a respectable 9 1 ratio of programme delivery costs to staff support costs.

She added that in arriving at the revised rate for cost recovery, UNFPA had used long term trends for fixed and variable indirect costs.

And you might have been a little more efficient in this whole matter, Mr. Freeman!

For calculating cost changes, up to date rates and standard costs are subsequently applied.