Project management and monitoring

Note 4. Loan administration and project supervision

13. UNHCR should ensure that PMRs are received on time and used for project monitoring purposes by all programme managers.

administer, control and report on extrabudgetary funds and programmes

UNOPS would continue to offer both complex operations management implementation services and individual service lines, for example recruitment and administration of human resources, contracting and procurement services, project supervision and loan administration, and conference management services.

(b) Income from the loan adminstration and project supervision of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Under this agreement, the Office, as a cooperating institution, provides loan administration and project supervision services for a portfolio of IFAD projects.

Project monitoring

In response to the suggestion of OIOS to facilitate the financial control and monitoring of project costs against budgets, the United Nations Office at Geneva has created project codes in IMIS and reconciled the expenditure already incurred on the CFS fund against the security projects.

(c) Project supervision and loan administration on behalf of international financial institutions and

However, OIOS observed that contingents were at times not aware of what types of projects to submit and that they frequently had difficulty in administering them.

The Administration stated that the programme managers had been instructed to review all projects under their supervision and to take the necessary action.

Carries out administrative and financial monitoring of national and subregional projects in the field of control measures (law enforcement and precursor control) and other projects as required.

As at 31 December 1997, the Office supervised a total of 124 projects and administered a loan portfolio of 1.6 billion.

Considering the size and complexity of the security projects, OIOS recommended in its previous report the appointment of a project manager to provide day to day management and coordination of the projects and to supervise the consortium engaged to carry out significant sections of the work.

i. Where appropriate, an outline for monitoring and management programmes and plans for post project analysis

The services that UNOPS provides are (a) programme support and complex project management (b) loan administration and project supervision and (c) procurement of goods and services, including human resources administrative and advisory services.

These executing agencies have assigned full time international chief technical advisers (CTAs) to each project to oversee field activities and to manage project resources.

UNOPS will refer this matter to its recently created Risk Management and Oversight Committee.

1. Monitoring of project development

Project monitoring and evaluation

The Office earns fees from services it provides to IFAD for loan administration and project supervision.

Project participants shall include, as part of the project design document, a monitoring plan that provides for

Project Management

8. The Office monitors actual project expenditures against budget, to manage the project funds efficiently and avoid over expenditure, as an ongoing and regular part of its financial management practice.

Technical backstopping of projects monitor ongoing projects (1997) develop, identify and recommend drug control projects to be developed within the country programme framework (1997) and negotiate and determine project execution and project funding modalities (3 in 1997). VI. PROJECT ACTIVITIES THE FUND BUDGET

Project participants shall include, as part of the project design document, a monitoring plan that provides for

Project development support and monitoring.

Michael Martin, Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors project director said The first closure on any bridge project is always a significant milestone.

Such a document is key for effective project management and should be used to monitor the progress of project implementation against the standards and benchmarks set (recommendation 7).

23. Among major developments for the financial industry was the establishment of the Monetary Authority, which consolidated the Supervision Department and the Currency Board. A key effect was to strengthen the regulatory regime.

Planner Project Management

Project Manager

Project Management

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Project manager

Project Admin

This project will implement a full featured trading system integrated with the systems supported by the master record keeper custodian.

Item 13 Internal audit and oversight

(e) UNEP should improve the management and control over projects by ensuring that objectives and outputs are clearly specified, periodical reports prescribed for monitoring the projects are received promptly and completed projects are closed timely.

As management service agreements now represent a smaller proportion of the Office s portfolio than they had previously, the Office considers that the combination of ongoing monitoring and better cost apportionment mechanisms are at this time sufficient.

The Office found that UNOPS still retained a fund balance of between 0.8 million and 1.4 million to pay for past expenditures of global projects previously managed.

The Unit will also develop internal control and monitoring system to assist the management of contracts resulting from the various vehicle related projects above.

SLUDGE Project Manager

The projects had been well managed, but monitoring and backstopping services provided by UNDCP could be further improved.