The Board Cost overruns in project implementation

In some instances, evaluation has proved more costly than the intervention itself.

The Ministry of Finance should be strengthened with international assistance in the form of qualified manpower in the areas of revenue generation, accounting, internal audit and expenditure control.

Financially, its contributions accounted for more than 37 per cent of the costs of United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Completion of that programme, estimated to cost over 1 billion, is expected in 2009.

For households without children housing subsidies may not exceed 15 per cent of housing expenses.

For 62 vehicles older than one year based on standard costs.

An amount of 700,000 reflects salary average costs higher than had been projected in the initial appropriation.

Additional requirements were also due to the fact that the actual average cost per trip ( 2,500) was higher than the budgeted cost per trip ( 2,300).

Excluding those charges, the slight overexpenditure against the provision was attributable to protracted delays in the closure of the quartering areas, for which additional charges were incurred.

The expense of running a television channel would vastly exceed the Department's entire budget.

Up to 3.5 for UNDP in selected cases

Because peacekeeping activities are fluid and filled with uncertainties, the best projections are subject to change.

8. Responsibility for Cost Overruns

Electricity is said to be free of charge up to 200 kilowatt hours per month, after which one has to pay.

The general principle is applied that the number of non contributory periods cannot exceed one third of the number of proved contributory periods.

The total fee that is paid by a patient may not exceed 80 LVL over the course of a calendar year.

Moreover, it would be absurd to implement protection measures if their cost exceeds the value of the property to be secured.

Over 8.2 kilometres of roads were cleared, at an average cost of US 3 for every metre cleared.

However, there is widespread consensus on the fact that fees charged on the transfer of remittances are still very high and surpass by far the real costs incurred by the companies that provide the service.

The European Union is now spending over one billion euros annually translating among their 23 official languages.

But as we're seeing, operational costs are starting to dwarf capital costs in terms of design parameters.

Of this amount, more than USD 12 million relates to interest and claim preparation costs.

The Board also noted that there were no cases of payment of fees exceeding 20,000 during 1997.

The country pays 30 per cent more than what it would if it could import the necessary products and equipment directly from the United States, as it pays more for shipping and intermediaries.

In two such cases alone, additional costs to the Organization exceeded 154,000 the Mission should seek reimbursement of the costs from the Governments concerned.

And they consume more than 40 per day.

Funds to cover overexpenditures of 22 programmes

The consequence of this was that the two officers were transferred at a cost ... more than a normal transfer.

Concern was expressed that costs saved by the abolition of posts would be outweighed by the cost of excessive reliance on temporary staff at peak periods, which might be detrimental to quality.

The potential savings and recoveries identified exceeded by far the cost of the UNHCR Audit Service.

Significant damage could be interpreted to mean damage wherein repairs amount to 10 per cent or more of the generic fair market value of the equipment item.

I would therefore request the concurrence of the Advisory Committee in the entering into commitments in an amount not exceeding 2,372,000 for the deployment and related commercial communications requirements of the demining platoons and the increase in cost of helicopter operations.

Based on invoices submitted by the lead United Nations agency for the construction of common premises on six of the projects, there were substantial cost overruns ranging from 29 to 287 per cent over the contract prices

The Governing Council of the Commission decided that such fees should not exceed 1.5 per cent of the amounts awarded to claimants under categories A, B and C, and should be no more than 3 per cent of amounts awarded under categories D, E and F. The Governing Council stipulated, however, that the fees charged should be commensurate with the actual expenditures of Governments, and requested Governments to explain the basis for any processing costs so deducted.

The unspent balance of 30,000 relates to a higher than budgeted vacancy rate.

Still, in real terms, the consortium fees have exceeded the amount approved by the Committee on Contracts.

In March 1998, analysts estimated that recapitalization of the banking sector alone would cost over 20 billion.

Any cost overrun on a specific budget subline above the 20 per cent shall be met by the Consortium members and the collaborating organizations unless prior agreement has been given by UNEP.

The loan amount per student does not exceed tuition fees established for studies.

According to JPS estimates, cost cutting resulting from these common or coordinated arrangements amounted to over Sw F 1 million in 2002.

If family expenses for housing and public utilities exceed 30 of its (the family's) aggregate income, a housing allowance is given to those in need.

193. The number of individuals whose housing expenses are above the Government set limits of affordability is not provided in the statistics of the National Statistical Institute.

Thirty offices exceeded the average and, of these, 12 were more than double the average.

(a) Those that consumed more than 300 tonnes in 2000 were classified as in the top 15 MB consuming countries.