Audit of travel claims

UNICEF concurs with this recommendation, provided that IT systems can be implemented to reconcile claim submission.

In paragraph 246, the Board of Auditors recommended that UNFPA (a) strengthen monitoring of the timely submission of travel claims by utilizing available reports (b) follow up on outstanding travel claims to fully recover all travel advances and (c) to the extent practicable, refrain from authorizing additional travel advances if previous travel claims have not been submitted.

Travel of staff

178. Travel on official business.

Travel on official business c)

C Travel on official business

C. Travel on official business

Savings should be reported in the next performance report.

(d) 114,400 for travel of staff owing to increased requirements for travel of staff in support of witnesses and other necessary activities under the Registry ( 503,300), partly offset by reduced requirements for travel under the Office of the Prosecutor ( 388,900)

(vi) Travel and Reimbursement Unit

(b) Researchers may also enjoy the benefits of the research grants system, which allows partial reimbursement of the costs of foreign travel or of scientific equipment from the general State budget (art. 71)

The full cost of travel, including the cost of transportation, subsistence allowances and other incidental expenses if travel started prior to the end of the calendar year.

Observers would bear any expenses incurred in connection with their travel and stay.

Travel (Decrease 15,300)

Travel (Decrease 880,200)

Travel (Decrease 896,100)

44. The Travel Reimbursement Unit has one P 3 post funded by the support account.

Travel of representatives from Parties

Travel of participants and representatives

26. The Board recommends that UNFPA take action to recover overdue travel advances, including, where appropriate, recovery action from salary where travel claims have not been submitted within two weeks of actual travel, as required under the UNFPA regulations.

The objective of this report was to conduct a comparative analysis of various elements of travel for officials travelling at the expense of the United Nations, and to propose measures for harmonizing travel policies and practices throughout the organizations of the United Nations system.

Travel of representatives (decrease 141,700)

Since its implementation date, over 40 changes have been prioritized and implemented to further enhance the travel request and travel claim processing.

(c) 48,000 for travel of representatives under Chambers, for travel of the President of the Tribunal and the members of the Appeals Chambers

The claim settlement charge, amounting to 50 per cent of the fee, represents the cost of processing an average of 33 claim transactions per participant per year at approximately 6.60 per transaction.

NGO participation in the above, at an estimated cost of USD 55,000 including USD 40,000 for travel of NGO representatives and USD 15,000 for travel of staff and

The reduced requirement is attributable to lower travel requirements of the President.

The Committee was informed that after all non recurrent travel provisions were deducted, the overall actual reduction under travel of staff was 768,600, or 1.8 per cent.

(e) Medical claims

(e) Medical claims

The Board again noted that the memorandums of understanding between certain troop contributing countries and the United Nations regarding MINUSTAH, MONUC, ONUB, UNAMSIL, UNMIL, UNMIS and UNMISET had still not been signed.

11. It may be noted that the cost to the Convention budget of a paper review would include travel by experts to the site of the secretariat financial savings would arise in the travel of secretariat staff.

development of a training module, at an estimated cost of USD 30,000 for consultancies, and support to the holding of a training workshop (USD 90,000 for travel of participants and USD 15,000 for travel of staff)

Two claims for such travel relating to the twentieth special session of the Assembly have been submitted for a total of 11,381.00.

For the fifty second session, for the period from 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998 claims submitted to date involved 30 such journeys at a cost of 156,028.

(b) Travel expenses related to the newly established Audit Committee

It was explained that the expenses incurred by the participants while on mission were considered legitimate and were therefore reimbursed.

OIOS pointed out the need for UNCTAD to review work processing procedures and to streamline the issuance of travel authorizations, processing of travel claims and procurement of services.

Finance Budget Clerk (Travel Claims Unit) (GS 4)

support to a meeting of selected national focal points in Asia (USD 70,000, including USD 50,000 for travel of participants ad USD 20,000 for travel of staff).

(b) Project personnel travelling by air shall be entitled to reimbursement of the cost of excess baggage for themselves and their eligible family members to the extent of the difference between their free baggage allowance and the free baggage allowance in first class air travel, subject to conditions established by the Secretary General.

(iv) The payment of pensions and travel and removal expenses of retiring judges and travel and removal expenses and installation grant of members of the Court (Statute, Article 32, paragraph 7), not exceeding a total of 410,000 dollars

(iv) The payment of pensions and travel and removal expenses of retiring judges and travel and removal expenses and installation grants of members of the Court (Statute, Article 32, paragraph 7), not exceeding a total of 410,000 dollars

(iv) The payment of pensions and travel and removal expenses of retiring judges and travel and removal expenses and installation grant of members of the Court (Statute, Article 32, paragraph 7), not exceeding a total of 410,000 dollars