Proposed Programme Budget Outline for the Biennium 2008-2009

A/RES/61/254View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 116 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2007.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1991–2017

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/71/274

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/RES/71/274	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2018-2019	512	68%Compare
2015	A/RES/69/264	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2016-2017	632	48%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/248	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2014-2015	916	40%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/262	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2012-2013	803	43%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/266	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2010-2011	1,000	42%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2007

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2007	A/62/229	Review of the experience of the utilization of the contingency fund report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/61/254

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Africa Common Services Contingency Funds Development Disarmament Drug Control Financial Management Financial Resources Human Rights Humanitarian Assistance International Law International Security Programme Budgeting Programme Priorities Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

26 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters;

Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Reaffirms that the proposed programme budget outline shall contain an indication of the following:

A preliminary estimate of resources needed to accommodate the proposed programme of activities during the biennium;

Priorities, reflecting general trends of a broad sectoral nature;

Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget;

Size of the contingency fund expressed as a percentage of the overall level of resources;

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;

Further reaffirms that the budget proposals of the Secretary-General should reflect resource levels commensurate with mandates for their full, efficient and effective implementation;

Notes that the budget outline is a preliminary estimate of resources;

Invites the Secretary-General to prepare his proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009 on the basis of a preliminary estimate of 4,194,726,800 United States dollars at revised 2006–2007 rates;

Decides that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009 shall contain provisions for recosting on the basis of the existing methodology;

Decides also that the priorities for the biennium 2008–2009 shall be the following:

Maintenance of international peace and security;

Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences;

Development of Africa;

Promotion of human rights;

Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;

Promotion of justice and international law;

Disarmament;

Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations;

Requests the Secretary-General, in view of his preliminary indicative estimates contained in the proposed budget outline, to reflect the priorities outlined in paragraph 9 above when presenting the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009;

Decides that the contingency fund shall be set at the level of 0.75 per cent of the preliminary estimate, namely at 31,460,500 dollars, that this amount shall be in addition to the overall level of the preliminary estimate and that it shall be used in accordance with the procedures for the use and operation of the contingency fund;

Requests the Secretary-General to review the experience of the utilization of the contingency fund and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session;

Takes note of the observation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in paragraph 9 of its reportError: Reference source not found on the experiment for a limited discretion for budgetary implementation;

Recalls section III of its resolution 60/283 of 7 July 2006, and stresses that the experiment for a limited discretion for budgetary implementation shall not imply any changes to the provisions guiding the use of the contingency fund.

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