The change was made in order to be consistent with the new budget concept.

Mine action coordination

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It is updated every year after the results of new household budget surveys are published.

New budget

New Budget

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Creates a new budget

Change budget year

The budget provides for training on upgrading, maintenance and repair of technical equipment.

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A. New budget concept 25 31 13

New narratives of the programme budget

Overall, the funds monitoring tool would be utilized to more accurately formulate budgets and increase budget implementation rates, bringing expenditures more in line with budgets.

Asia and Middle East

Administrative

Do we need a bigger budget?

A number of innovations have been introduced in the budget documentation, including the presentation of a programme support cost budget, utilization of costed work plans for budget preparation, a linkage between activities and mandates, as well as a comparison between the budget and the outline.

Section II covers issues of budget methodology, including a new budget concept, recosting methodology and performance reports.

A. New programme budget format 4 7 6

B. Proposed new budget structure

109. Regulations, rules and manuals concerning programme planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation should be updated to incorporate changes in budgetary and programme planning practices.

Use this to create a new empty budget.

The updated amount represents a decrease of SwF 13,500, or 0.02 per cent, compared with the approved budget for 2004 2005.

The introduction of the new budgetary classification would cover only the budget allocations at headquarters and field operations.

The scope of the budget to be approved by the Commission should be clarified on the basis of the new budget classification.

As outlined above, the budget methodology has been modified by introducing volume adjustments for the revised budgets which align budget estimates with estimated expenditure.

Creation of one new post of Budget Officer (P 3)

The change was made to be consistent with the new budget concept.

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

The Department lacked the resources to replace obsolete technology in some of the information centres equipped with 10 year old computers its resources had been cut in the previous two budget cycles.

People are willing to invest more, and the budgets are larger.

In view of the continued rapid growth in the regular and peacekeeping budgets, it was all the more important to examine how budgetary resources were used and the results achieved with them.

It was time seriously to consider the possibility of a more realistic budget than the one approved in 2001.

The change was made to reflect the new budget concept.

Having ratified the Convention, it had allocated substantial budget funds to mine action operations and was regularly updating them to reflect new strategies.

4. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

(b) During budget implementation, particularly in connection with additional or new legislative mandates requiring statements of programme budget implications

Welcomes the use, in the proposed budgets for 2005 06, of a new methodology for budgeting international staff costs

This request for a new P 3 post represents a transfer from extrabudgetary to regular budget resources.