Supplementary funding and cost recovery

Recovery charges cover the costs for programme support and management and administration.

2005 12 Recovery of indirect costs for co financing

2005 18 UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery

2005 12 Recovery of indirect costs for co financing

Reporting of UNDP income from cost recovery (DP 2005 CRP.4)

Welcomes the participation of UNDP in the work of the UNDG Management Group with regard to further harmonization of cost recovery principles and refining the criteria for cost recovery rates

As regards commission income, it is required to make disclosure of the amount of such income at current period and last period by category (income from application fee, income from redemption fee, income from transition fee and income from subscription fee).

The Executive Board, in proposing the share of proceeds to cover administrative expenses and registration fees to recover any project related expenses, may consider proposing lower fees for small scale CDM project activities.

Estimated income and adjustments to the 2006 2007 biennial support budget amount to 190.0 million, including 161.0 from recovery charges, as compared to estimated income to the 2004 2005 biennial support budget of 156.4 million (including income from recovery charges of 129.6 million).

117. Requests the United Nations development system to further standardize and harmonize the concepts, practices and cost classifications related to transaction cost and cost recovery, while maintaining the principle of full cost recovery in the administration of all non core supplementary extrabudgetary contributions, including in joint programmes

Took note of document DP 2005 CRP.4 on reporting of UNDP income from cost recovery

Part of the administrative costs for the CDM is recovered through fees for user specific services such as those relating to registration under the CDM.

Requests UNDP to submit to the Board at its second regular session 2006, a report on the current practice of determining specific cost recovery rates and clear cost recovery criteria based on, inter alia, funding and execution modalities and management cost in different countries.

Moreover, it was incumbent upon the State to establish international or domestic mechanisms to recover costs from the operator.

Adopted decision 2005 18 of 22 June 2005 on UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery.

Treated waste water and excreta can be considered as a valuable resource with the potential for reuse, and in some cases for sale, with the revenues helping to recoup treatment costs.

An outstanding question is the extent to which cost recovery should also make a contribution to the basic administrative costs of the organization and to some part of the programme support costs that cannot be clearly attributed to any specific programme activity.

a Based on assumption of replacement of current lease costs of the commercial office space rented by the United Nations.

Experience indicates, however, that recovering a share of operation and maintenance costs contributes to system sustainability.

Chairs recycled and recyclable.

Reductions in subsidies and improved cost recovery for those who can afford to pay can help to finance operation and maintenance costs, ensure quality and reliability of service and encourage water use efficiency.

The slight decrease in projected income is due to the new UNFPA cost recovery, approved by the Executive Board in January 2005.

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

Full cost recovery for major sewage works including capital costs through user charges is often difficult, if not impossible, in many developing countries, especially where a high proportion of users are poor.

Adopted decision 2005 12 of 28 January 2005 on the recovery of indirect costs for co financing

(i) Setting fees for registration and searching at a cost recovery level and

These should be included under a contractual agreement between the organizations, indicating the agreed level of service and the financial commitments for both parties (fees, cost recovery mechanisms or other financial arrangements).

Takes note of the conference room paper on criteria for the determination of project specific cost recovery rates (DP 2005 CRP.5)

This is the rate currently paid for leasing the FF building. The approach used in selection of the rate is based on provisions of resolution 41 213.

UNDP will also conduct an assessment and establish a follow up action plan for offices not meeting their income target for cost recovery (para.

Reaffirms that UNDP must ensure full recovery, at an aggregate level, of all actual costs for implementing activities financed from UNDP third party cost sharing, trust fund contribution and programme country cost sharing

(31) As regards income tax expenses, it is required to make disclosure of the composition of income tax expenses (proceeds), including current income tax and deferred income tax it is also required to make disclosure of the relations between income tax expenses (proceeds) and accounting profits.

I think that if we reduce, reuse, refuse and recycle right at the end there recycling is the last point I want to make but it's the four R's, rather than the three R's then I think we're going to be on our way.

These costs generally do not stem from hospital charges, bed charges or doctor's fees.

In addition, mechanisms will need to be devised for reimbursing the United Nations system for the administrative and other support it provides to these modalities, keeping in mind existing full cost recovery policies.

Whatever happens with congestion pricing and those technologies will be happening with road pricing.

The methodology used for recovery was approved by the Executive Board in June 2003 and updated in September 2004, with charges ranging from 12 to 5 per cent.

Member States have recently underlined the importance of full cost recovery being applied to supplementary activities, although there is no common and agreed methodology for it.

9 WFP has a relatively simple and transparent system in place that ensures that recovery from supplementary contributions covers all incremental costs plus an appropriate share of administrative costs (called indirect support costs in WFP terminology).

The latter are devoid of the problems associated with multiple use and relativism in time, i.e. a recycling plant remains a recycling plant even if the technology of recycling changes substantially.

Taxes and charges These can be used to change the behaviour of tourists and enterprises, for example through increasing prices, and also for raising revenue from them for use in conservation or social projects.

Other examples are recycling.

Floor sustainable, recyclable.

Water tariffs have been used extensively for recovering the costs of water infrastructure and services.