The increase in 2003 was due primarily to the significant increase in the supplementary programme budget.

The approved budget for the biennium 2004 represented a nominal increase of 5 per cent from the previous budget.

The gross proposed budget for 2006 2007 shows an increase of 72.8 million, comprising a volume increase of 7.5 million and a cost increase of 65.3 million.

The Government budget allocated for population activities has also registered a steady increase.

Plan to increase the regular budget component of the United Nations Office at Nairobi

In terms of regular budget posts, the Secretary General proposes an increase of 200 posts.

Efforts were made to prioritize work on the budget and increase coordination with spending agencies.

This constitutes a 100 increase in the budget for combating HIV AIDS in the country.

The budget document indicated that the increase in expenditure envisaged in priority programmes would largely be financed by reallocating resources within the approved outline budget.

The actual budget increase cannot be determined simply by noting a change in the dollar denominated amount.

1.6 The estimated increase for regular budget resources would be 0.8 per cent at 2004 2005 rates.

The 2005 budget was approved by the territorial Congress. The centrepiece of the budget was an increase in the official minimum monthly wage to CFP110,000 (around 1,200) from CFP100,000.

The proposed increase over the budget of the biennium 2004 05 amounted to less than 0.1 per cent.

3. Stresses the need to increase in an incremental way, in the normal course of the budget process, the share of the budget of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs borne by the United Nations regular budget

Several delegations expressed the view that there was a need to increase the regular budget resources of UN Habitat.

More efforts are therefore required to increase budget allocations for training and mobilize extrabudgetary resources from all appropriate sources.

In comparison to the approved budget for 2002 2003, the proposed Convention budget represents a nominal increase of 54.16 per cent in United States dollars and 1.46 per cent in Euros.

Notes the increase in costs in the biennial support budget, and requests UNDP to report in more detail in the next biennial support budget on the strategies and measures to contain costs

The final budget for the biennium 2004 2005 amounted to 38,100, whereas the budget estimate for the biennium 2006 2007 amounts to 338,100, constituting, without explanation, an increase of 887 per cent.

His delegation would welcome clarification concerning the basis for the budget proposals, including the assumed duration of the temporary increase.

The reduction in the trust fund budget will be offset by a projected increase of 20 million in earmarked contributions.

Governments should increase their contributions, honour their pledges or start contributing to the Agency's biennium budget and medium term plan.

European leaders must therefore substantially increase research funding when the EU budget is next due for revision in 2008 and 2009.

The support budget is also expected to increase, in part to cover mandatory costs related to security compliance and emergency preparedness.

The Service requests an increase of some 30 per cent in its staffing and 50 per cent in its financial budget.

Budget projections for 2005 point to continued strong total revenue performance, with an increase of 8.4 per cent above 2004 levels.

In the 2004 budget, Ontario announced an increase of 120 million over the next four years for the community mental health sector.

For the budget period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006, the Secretary General proposed a budget of 94.3 million, an increase of 1.3 million against the appropriation of 93.0 million for the current period.

An increase in non earmarked contributions and in the regular budget allocation would represent a meaningful and long term solution to the problem.

The Advisory Committee notes that the revised budget includes an increase of 209 Field Service posts under the support component, but the reasons for the substantial increase in this category of staff are not adequately explained.

Unless proposals for additional resources were directly related to the increase in troop strength or expansion of the Mission's mandate, they should be included in the budget proposals for 2005 2006 rather than in the revised budget.

The 25 States of the Union have agreed on a proposal to increase their assistance budget, which will be 20 billion larger by 2010.

This relates mostly to an increase in requirements relating to the development of a budget formulation tool in the Peacekeeping Financing Division (see para.

However, the Public Auditor advised against that course of action, warning of a further increase in the debt burden, and suggested instead that budget cuts be made through the removal of non essential items from the budget.15

Under the Fund's support budget, a net increase of four posts is proposed, comprising five new posts (three Professional and two Local level) and a reduction of one post, which was converted to regular budget funding in 2004.

The effect of including the United Nations regular budget contributions in financial statements for 2004 and for future years is to increase income and expenditure by the amount of the United Nations Regular Budget allotment advice for the period.

Although the proposed 15 per cent increase in the MONUC budget was intended to reflect the Mission's additional mandates, it was still far from adequate.

The Committee recommends that the State party increase its efforts to enhance the effectiveness of the Human Rights Commission, in particular through adequate budget allocations.

The increase is due to new requirements of the Peacekeeping Best Practices Section, for which information is provided in paragraph 69 of the budget report.

The resources for general temporary assistance of 272,100, an increase of 31,500 over 2004 05, are described in paragraphs 326 331 of the proposed budget.

The High Commissioner noted that she believed that any increase in OHCHR regular budget resources would be enjoyed across the board, including by special procedures.

While resources must be used efficiently, it was hard to understand how new challenges could be met with a regular budget that did not increase.

The Australian Government announced a series of changes in the 2005 06 budget to increase the workforce participation of parents, including sole parents, in employment.

Of a total of some US 3 billion, according to the preliminary expenditure estimate, the proposed programme budget foresaw a net increase of 117 posts.

The budget for the administration of the Procurement Services General Services, after recosting, amounted to 7.9 million for the 2004 2005 biennium, which represents an increase of 3 per cent compared to the budget of 7.6 million for the previous biennium.