(i) Shortage of financial resources

Impact of funding shortfalls

Such services were known to be underfunded.

The lack of such resources hampered the development of developing countries.

However, these initiatives have been hampered by a lack of funding, qualified personnel and material resources.

The shortfall in funding together with the cost overrun obliged the Agency to advance funds from the General Fund against expected move pledges, to complete the move on schedule.

Barriers lack of resources

Without more funds, the Agency would be unable to maintain the quality of even basic health care.

As regards the impact of shortfalls, concern was expressed with regard to their effect on refugee women and children.

We would therefore like to appeal to the international community to urgently address the shortfalls.

Owing to lack of funds, it has not yet begun in the United Republic of Tanzania.

The demining process has been too slow and is hampered by serious shortages of funding.

The critical funding situation for 1998 General Programmes was the focus of the Director apos s opening remarks.

If effective, sustainable measures were to be adopted, the problem of inadequate financial resources would have to be solved.

For example, the lack of finance and of information on sources of finance for investment and working capital has been a contributory factor in the closure of some small plastic manufacturing firms in Nigeria (Mambula, 1996).

In that connection, the shortage of finance, both start up capital and long term finance, was a major problem for SMEs.

Payment of such benefits is financed from the weekly contributions by employers and employees to the Social Insurance (Short term benefit) Fund.

It was also urgent to find a solution to the problem of lack of financing for the participation of experts in UNCTAD expert meeting.

To address the shortfall, one delegation underlined the need for a strategy to get more funds from new donors and the private sector.

18. Public health responses to the situation in the Semipalatinsk region have been hampered by debilitating resource shortages and absence of objective medical information.

Unfortunately, lack of financial resources and policy regulation make these practices difficult to implement.

Specifically programmes such as those of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration remain continuously underfinanced.

A request for technical assistance from the Democratic Republic of Congo has not been responded to owing to lack of funding.

Canada and Jordan noted that, because of a lack of funding, the aid provided was still unsatisfactory.

Nevertheless, the earmarking system and the scarcity of financial resources make relatively small projects the norm under the Fund.

In addition, crippling shortages of jet fuel and persistent funding shortfalls for air operations have severely constrained air support for food and non food deliveries.

But funding shortfalls have plagued Mr. Joko's administration as he faces re election next year.

Despite funding shortfalls, the performance of the Office of National Security has continued to improve, as has, in particular, its coordination capacity.

Short term investments and reserves

In UNICEF, there was a shortfall of income over expenditure of 14.6 million compared with a shortfall of 5.4 million declared in the previous biennium.

Yet public water utilities in developing countries are usually inadequately funded, poorly managed and inefficient.

Several independently financed non governmental organizations continue to face funding shortfalls owing to revised policies by some donors.

I have written to major partners of AU to urge them to fill the funding gap identified by AU.

Projected resource requirements for 2005 2007 reveal a 50 per cent shortfall (and at times higher in some African subregions) in collected extrabudgetary funds.

This situation must be reassessed in view of serious funding shortfalls for Liberia's reconstruction and rehabilitation process.

Low income, food deficit countries as defined by the FAO continue to receive the bulk of IFAD financing.

Contractionary adjustment policies, poor business confidence, shortage of domestic liquidity and scarcity of external finance underlie the economic contraction in the crisis countries in Asia.

The reduction in the hospitalization allocation meant that not all patients who required hospital care would be able to receive it, while the reduction in the medical supplies allocation increased the likelihood of drug shortages.

Accordingly, the previous year end projection of cash available for regular budget purposes has been revised from the original forecast of a negative 247 million to a negative 50 million.

Shortage in extrabudgetary funding

UNFPA did not obtain the shortfall reports for the biennium 2002 2003.

For example, in commodity dependent and resource strapped Lesotho, remittance receipts represented about 27 per cent of GDP in 2001.

However, because refugee feeding programmes remained seriously underfunded, donors must commit to doing more.

That shortfall in resources was magnified by the decision of the AGBM to reconvene one day earlier than had been planned.

To address the shortage of teachers especially in remote areas, WFP provides food support to both in service teachers and teacher trainees.