Requirements under this heading have been reduced as the result of the drawdown of military and civilian personnel.

Requirements under this heading have been reduced as a result of the drawdown of the mission.

Deduction of mission subsistence allowance owing to leave days taken.

Owing to the deployment of fewer personnel there were fewer requirements for office furniture.

The significant decrease is due to reduction of activities with the ending of the mandate of UNPF, which is now in liquidation phase.

Actual expenditures will be less owing to cost reduction measures taken in response to funding shortfalls.

Since the number of staff had decreased, consultancy and all other related expenses should also decrease accordingly.

b Resulting from the resource reduction called for in the resolution.

As a result of those actions, the level of resources required was significantly reduced.

Actual expenditure is expected to be less owing to austerity and cost reduction measures taken in response to funding shortfalls.

Lower actual requirements owing to the repatriation of contingent personnel

(a) By region reductions of 19.8 per cent for Africa, 13.0 per cent for Asia and the Pacific, 8.0 per cent for Europe and the Middle East and 15.9 per cent for Latin America and the Caribbean, partly offset by an increase of 27.2 per cent for global activities

Equipment purchased during the year was lower than planned due to a scale down of original purchases planned.

Surplus funds substantially decreased following higher than anticipated spending in December 2004.

The Section s work programme for 1997 was based on the assumption that routine workload arising from supporting existing missions would diminish owing to the expected reduction in their overall number.

As a result of this strategy, the social assistance caseload continues to decrease year over year.

From the above concepts, the Standard includes the following mitigation measures

The reduced requirements resulted mainly from the lower than planned number of hours flown for helicopter operations.

As a result of improved satellite communications and reduced field office communication charges, the Tribunal has realized substantial reductions under communications.

The situation was made worse by the lack of measures to attenuate such variations.

Staff would have to be made aware of the reduced amounts under the new arrangements.

The provision of health services has dropped remarkably as a result of restrictions in access.

The implementation of these measures has allowed a reduction in staffing by almost 50 per cent.

Due to the early stage of the pilot phase, only a few of the reports provided data for the actual emissions reduced.

The decrease of 4,015,600 gross ( 2,883,100 net) is due primarily to the deployment of fewer personnel than originally planned.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

In 2000, the use of renewable energy in China led to the avoidance of more than 33 million tonnes of coal combustion.

In 1994 the number of kindergartens fell to 68, reaching only 4,616 children.

The decreased expenditure in UNIDO's contribution to common buildings management by 892,900 mainly results from the reduction of subsidies to the catering operation.

The lower resource requirements were attributable to the expected reduction in the military from its authorized strength of 3,980 to a budgeted strength of 3,184 by 1 July 2005 and a 10 per cent reduction in the level of civilian personnel.

This reflected a decrease in real terms, due to inflation and the devaluation of the dollar.

The challenge is to enable freedom of mobility while reducing the consumption of fossil fuels.

Decrease owing to variances in the exchange rate of the United States dollar to the Macedonian denar.

27. The decrease of 158,200 is attributable to recosting with the application of revised exchange rates.

The tense situation within Geneina itself warranted a reduction of non essential United Nations personnel on 12 October.

Natural increase The rate at which a population increases (or decreases) in one year owing to the surplus or deficit of births over deaths, expressed as a percentage of the average population for the same year.

The lower requirements resulted primarily from reduced flying hours of the helicopter as well as the fixed wing aircraft, which contract was terminated in May 2005.

These reductions are attributable to the shift of costs related to other resources.

However, thanks to the efforts of the Cypriot Government, that trafficking was decreasing.

(a) Difficulties faced by ARE in obtaining local monazite due to the decline of tin ore mining activities

3. Owing to changes in requirements, fewer resources were required under this heading.

Examples of other effects include diminishing freshwater supply in many regions, due to extended droughts and as a result of the melting of high altitude glaciers and the decrease in snow cover in mountain areas.

According to the Secretariat, the decrease in the backlog in 2004 reflects an overall reduction in the number of new appeals 24 in 2004 compared with 50 in 2001.

Generated run off is less erosive and less polluting as crop residues reduce sediment transport into river waters.

Currently, there were fewer officers than in 1987 owing to attrition over the years of zero growth and budget reductions.