(c) Report on common staff costs (SPLOS 127)

Costs for common support services are estimated at 10,400.

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

Cyprus and Malta also contribute to the common costs of the operation.

Cyprus and Malta also contribute to the common costs of the operation.

Cyprus and Malta also contribute to the common costs of this operation.

The higher requirement under common staff costs is attributable to service and family allowances being charged to common staff costs but budgeted under international staff salaries, combined with a higher percentage of international staff holding 100 series appointments.

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

Regarding cost benefits, experience had proven that common premises, common services and joint offices had resulted in lower transaction costs and allowed greater development impact.

The associated costs for meeting servicing, interpretation and post session documentation are estimated at 53,200, and costs for common support services are expected to be about 5,200.

Major Programme I identifies and shows separately all indirect costs and common services in which UNIDO participates.

The decrease under this heading is attributable to reduced requirements under common staff costs arising from lower actual common staff costs than projected ( 2,795,700) offset by increased requirements under salaries ( 2,605,200) owing to the lower than budgeted vacancy rate realized for the Professional category.

The amount of 6,282,800 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for 45 continuing posts.

The amount of 1,636,500 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for 10 continuing posts.

The new measures introduced into the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) would reduce transit costs considerably.

First, with respect to the new United Nations Campus, the various United Nations organizations are expected to bear additional operating costs, largely relating to higher utility costs and shared common costs, resulting in part from new United Nations wide security directives.

Revisions to standard salary costs, common staff costs and vacancy rates are based on actual experience by category and level for the Vienna duty station and each of the four regions of operation.

The decrease under this heading is caused by the combined effect of reductions in salaries ( 1,215,300) and common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

Common staff costs have been estimated at 83 per cent of the net salary, including provision for hazardous duty station allowance.

WFP's share of common services programme costs in 2004 was US 132,000, including its portion of the cost of two common services adviser posts established for the Eastern Southern Africa region and West Africa.

This year support was also provided to fund rehabilitation costs of common premises in Armenia, Bhutan, Cape Verde and Nepal totalling US 143,000.

Further, the issue of investigating ways to ensure a common methodology for calculating indirect costs is on the work plan for the UNDG.

The Advisory Committee notes that the savings realized under posts, which include requirements for salaries and common staff costs, are due to effective average vacancy rates that were higher than the budgetary assumptions (15.1 per cent for Professional and 8.9 per cent for General Service staff), as well as lower than budgeted requirements for common staff costs.

The amount of 1,075,000 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for five continuing posts and one additional post (P 3).

The amount of 338,300 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for two new posts (1 P 5, 1 P 4).

The amount of 3,921,600 provides for general temporary assistance, common staff costs, staff assessment and mission subsistence allowance, when applicable, for the 25 additional positions.

Within this increasingly complex environment, UNICEF will pursue funding strategies that support common approaches to reducing transaction costs, streamlining operational processes and producing measurable results.

A provision of 3,050,800 has been made to cover their salaries and common staff costs, taking into account a vacancy rate of 10 per cent.

UNICEF is encouraging its offices to participate in and provide leadership to common services as a way to save administrative costs at the field level.

(c) Consider sharing a set of similar core indicators across the United Nations common system in order to facilitate benchmarking in terms of deliverables and costs

As previously reported by the Board, UNOPS was unable to provide it with a breakdown of common staff costs amounting to 15.2 million, and the Board was unable to obtain assurance regarding 81 per cent of its sample pertaining to separation costs.

The additional requirements were attributable mainly to higher than budgeted actual average payments for salaries and common staff costs to local staff during the 12 month period.

Meeting servicing and interpretation would, however, be provided at an estimated cost of 44,800, and associated costs for common support services are expected to be about 10,400.

The amount of 2,088,800 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for seven continuing posts and one additional post at the P 3 level.

The amount of 800,500 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for three continuing posts, including reclassification of the post of Chief of Operations.

The amount of 895,500 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for three continuing posts and one new post at the P 4 level.

Meeting servicing and interpretation will, however, be provided at an estimated cost of 44,800, and associated costs for common support services are expected to be about 10,400.

The use of outsourcing and common service arrangements as well as ICT systems and tools discussed in chapter V, could also enhance productivity and streamline transaction costs.

The development and use of common country assessments and development assistance frameworks must be efficient and support programme delivery in a manner which kept transaction costs to a minimum.

Cooperation is the key to dealing with space activities, not only because space is a common heritage for all but also because of the significant costs incurred in space exploration.

It was suggested that exclusive jurisdiction clauses were quite common in the commercial context, since they provided a means to increase predictability and to reduce overall costs for the parties.

The amount of 5,608,100 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for 30 continuing posts and 6 new posts (2 P 3, 4 General Service (Other level)).

The amount of 4,370,900 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for 22 continuing posts, plus three new posts (1 P 4, 2 General Service (Other level)).

A key problem all along has been that, though sanctions serve a common purpose, the costs of implementing them are borne by individual member states. Moreover, the costs are very concrete and visible, as jobs in enterprises that depend on exports to Russia seem to be at stake.

The amount of 1,203,500 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for five continuing posts and the redeployment of one General Service (Other level) post from the Investments Section.