4. Financial and technical cooperation

IV. FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION

Collaborative Partnership on Forests funding seed fund

IV. FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION 18 23 9

Gaps are insufficient funds of collaborative projects.

Investments of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

INVESTMENTS OF THE UNITED NATIONS JOINT STAFF PENSION FUND

FCCC SBI 1997 2 Financial and technical cooperation Financial Mechanism review process referred to in decision 9 CP.1

Servicing of external public debt

C. Facilitation of technological cooperation through financial assistance

Complementary funds are expected from the UNDP global Gender in Development Programme, and from the United Nations Development Fund for Women, which has also offered support as cooperating agency.

Trends in mobilization of UNCTAD's technical cooperation, by source of funds, 1972 2004 7

Diversification of investments of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

The global programme will work with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to expand inclusive financial sectors that serve the poor.

South South cooperation must complement North South cooperation and be given additional financial resources.

A. Organization of cooperatives and access to agricultural credit and loans

This project was financed by the Overseas Economic and Cooperation Fund.

FCCC SBI 1997 MISC.1 Financial and technical cooperation Information on relevant action by the Council of the Global Environment Facility

Investments will be made subject to programme country demand, matched by adequate funding, and fulfillment of basic investment criteria.

They are funded mainly from regular budget resources and from extrabudgetary resources related to technical cooperation trust funds.

C. Facilitation of technological cooperation through financial

Table 1.14 Resource requirements United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

It is essential that the expectations of the conventions, including the Rotterdam Convention, realistically correspond to the GEF's limited resources, or that the conventions work collaboratively with others to increase them.

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund Administrative ex penses of UNJSPF (A 52 278) Membership of the Investments Committee

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) UNCDF works with local authorities to bring capital assistance to a level that larger donors cannot reach.

the Development Cooperation Analysis System (DCAS a multi lingual, computerized data base on funding information. UNDP has a cooperative agreement with the Statistical Reporting Division of the Development Cooperation Directorate of the OECD, which the GM could benefit from in its work on information collection on funding sources.

(e) Report of the Secretary General on the investments of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (A C.5 53 18).

Undue competition for extrabudgetary resources thwarted inter agency collaboration and cooperation.

To invest in cooperative societies for needy families, identifying local potentialities.

16. The United Nations as an Organization has no capital and it has no cash reserves.

About 38.7 per cent of all technical cooperation activity during the biennium 1996 1997 was financed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the remainder being financed through technical cooperation trust funds and the regular programme of technical cooperation portion of the United Nations regular budget (sect. 20).

WMO indicated a major restructuring of its Technical Cooperation Department in order to remain within the reduced resources available to the Technical Cooperation Fund, and there were also increased efforts to attract new financing for extrabudgetary projects.

Funding for the programme managers is being mobilized from multiple sources, including global programmes, the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation, the Technical Cooperation Trust Fund and from bilateral and multilateral sources.

In its new role as financial mechanism for the UNCCD, the GEF will collaborate with the GM.

To a large extent, these projects were supported by federal funding from the Supporting Communities Partnership Initiative.

53. Since its creation in 1966, as a capital funding window under the UNDP umbrella, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has been the channel for UNDP to fund microfinance interventions.

72. Her delegation was impressed by the work which the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) had done to improve its evaluation and monitoring of projects.

C. Provisional agenda for the forty fifth session of the Working Party

Figure 4 shows technical cooperation expenditures by fund source and by administrative location.

Who is really driving cooperative initiatives in Africa and how much African money is being used in such efforts?

Resources will be used to develop comprehensive packages of integrated technical cooperation services and, in view of the limited availability of these freely programmable funds, will be used strategically as seed money with a view to encouraging the mobilization of additional resources.

She trusted that every effort would be made to secure the necessary funding and to improve the disbursement of funds pledged through the Interim Cooperation Framework.

There are a number of sources and mechanisms through which funding is provided to NGOs cooperating with IFAD at the field level.

When fixing the minimum wage only the following components have been excluded bonuses for a period of employment (anniversary bonuses), pension bonuses, rewards from an establishment reward fund, bonuses from profit, payments from balance surplus in cooperatives and remuneration for overtime.

To deal with the recurring problem of funding for South South cooperation, the Second South Summit called for strengthening of the Voluntary Trust Fund for the Promotion of South South Cooperation and designated it as the main multilateral funding mechanism for South South cooperation.