Core funds subtotal

a Agency core funds.

I. Core Budget Fund

Non core resources more than doubled, while core resources grew at a much slower pace.

The Committee notes that the core fund balance for the drug programme is currently insufficient (under 8 million) to cover the annual core fund expenditure of 15 million per annum and that most core fund income would be received in the second half of each year on a voluntary basis.

21. Notes the increase in non core resources, including cost sharing, trust funds and non traditional sources of financing, as a mechanism to supplement the means of operational activities for development, contributing to an increase in total resources, while recognizing that non core resources are not a substitute for core resources

Recognizes with appreciation the increases in both core and particularly non core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations, whose increased contributions demonstrate their commitment to the issues on which the Fund is working

16. Recognizes with appreciation the increases in both core and particularly non core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations, whose increased contributions demonstrate their commitment to the issues on which the Fund is working

The marginal increase of non core funds has not compensated adequately for the decline in core contributions by major donors.

I also urge Member States to increase core funding and reduce the proportion of earmarked funds so as to help increase coherence in the system.

In 2004, the performance of UNCDF continued to be affected by the low level of contributions to its core resources.

Core

In addition to non core funding, UNCDF will strive to leverage other donor, government and private sector funding to support programme objectives.

Recognizes with appreciation the increases in both core and particularly non core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations, whose increased contributions demonstrate their commitment to the issues on which the Fund is working

23. Recognizes with appreciation the increases in core and non core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations, whose increased contributions demonstrate their commitment to the issues on which the Fund is working

Most of those non core funds do not fall into the category of ODA.

To be effective in gender mainstreaming, UNDP should allocate sufficient funding from core resources for staffing, training and programmes, in addition to raising non core funds.

Total core and non core resources available to UNICEF amounted to 1,006 million in 1994, 1,007 million in 1995 and 941 million in 1996.

Non core

In 2005, the utilization of the core resources, regular budget and extrabudgetary resources, excluding project funds, is expected to remain within the authorized allotments.

They underscored that core resources were essential for the Fund's stability.

However, since they were unpredictable such resources could not replace traditional core resources.

He also stressed the crucial importance of increased general purpose contributions, emphasizing that those resources needed to be viewed as core funding required to ensure core infrastructure and core staff for mandated programmes.

Table 1, below, presents the total core and non core expenditure profile.

Funds and programmes seeking to increase the reliability of core funding could consider introducing a system of assessed contributions for meeting core expenses that guarantee their basic functioning.

Support costs for these activities have again been covered through the core fund, whereas individual specialized projects have been financed through supplementary funding.

The strategy aims at assuring increased core resources and finding a means of increasing burden sharing among donors to UNICEF core resources.

116. Requests the executive boards of the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies to review the issue of cost recovery to ensure that core resources do not subsidize the projects undertaken through non core supplementary extrabudgetary funding

(b) Proportionality core resources will not be used to subsidize management of non core resources and

They underscored that core resources were the bedrock of UNFPA and called for increased contributions to the Fund.

Table 1 Total expenditures against core and non core (in millions of dollars)

Core resources for development

18. Recognizes with appreciation the increases in core contributions and, particularly, non core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations, whose increased contributions demonstrate their commitment to the issues on which the Fund is working

Recognizes with appreciation the increases in core contributions and, particularly, non core contributions to the Fund made by Member States, private organizations and foundations, whose increased contributions demonstrate their commitment to the issues on which the Fund is working

the approval of three concept papers (Laos, Timor Leste and Vietnam),

UNCDF will continue to use extra budgetary income generated from non core resources to finance to a large extent UNCDF staff presence at the country office level.

Conference related activities have been funded from a combination of sources support costs have been covered from the core fund, while facility costs have been covered from the Bonn Fund (see paragraphs 44 47).

These should be organization wide (for example, number of staff trained targets for core and non core funds) and country specific.

Goal 4 Core and non core resources aligned with commitments

For the previous cycle (1992 1996), the core resources were 57 million and non core 175 million.

UNDCP requires additional general purpose funds to undertake and sustain its core activities.

Projections for 2006 2007 levelled in at 1.9 billion for core and 5.6 billion for non core.

While total funding from core and non core resources has increased modestly in recent years, the share of core resources in overall resources has declined and now constitutes less than half of the total.

programmes in local development and micro finance and initiate new investments.

155. Core resources available to UNICEF4 have declined 20 per cent in the three years 1994 to 1996.