Proposed Programme Budget Outline for the Biennium 2012-2013

A/RES/65/262View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 128 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2011.

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?

16 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

28 operative paragraphs

Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;Error: Reference source not found

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

Emphasizes that the proposed programme budget outline should be submitted sufficiently early in order that it may serve as a practical tool in the budget preparation process and, in this regard, requests the Secretary-General to issue future budget outlines at least thirty days prior to their scheduled introduction, but no later than 15 November of the off-budget year;

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;

Also 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;

Notes that the budget proposal will reflect the benefit of further reviews of possible obsolete activities, additional cost-effective measures and simplified procedures and, in this regard, requests the Secretary-General to rigorously pursue this in accordance with regulation 5.6 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation,⁴ and established practices;

⁴ST/SGB/2000/8.

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

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

Invites the Secretary-General to prepare his proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013 on the basis of a preliminary estimate of 5,396,697,200 United States dollars at revised 2010–2011 rates;

Decides that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013 shall contain provisions for re-costing on the basis of the existing methodology;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to include, in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013, the total amount of resources that he should have at his disposal, from all sources of financing, in order to implement fully all mandated programmes and activities;

Notes that the preliminary estimates provided by the Secretary-General for the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013 do not include provisions for the implementation of those requirements that are under discussion by the General Assembly and that the requirements pertinent to the regular budget should be reflected in the programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013, subject to approval by the Assembly and in accordance with its resolutions 41/213 of 19 December 1986 and 42/211 of 21 December 1987;

Decides that the priorities for the biennium 2012–2013 shall be the following:

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

Maintenance of international peace and security;

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 to reflect the priorities outlined in paragraph 13 above when presenting the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2012–2013;

Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to propose, in future budget submissions, measures to offset budget increases, wherever possible, without undermining the implementation of mandated programmes and activities;

Decides that the contingency fund shall be set at the level of 0.75 per cent of the preliminary estimate, namely, at 40,475,200 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.

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