Financing of the Regional Service Centre Base in Entebbe, Uganda

A/RES/72/286View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 149 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2018.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Entebbe (Uganda)Financial Resources Peacekeeping Operations Programme Budgeting Support Services

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its resolutions 57/290 B of 18 June 2003, 59/296 of 22 June 2005, 60/266 of 30 June 2006, 61/276 of 29 June 2007, 64/269 of 24 June 2010, 65/289 of 30 June 2011, 66/264 of 21 June 2012, 69/307, and 70/286 of 17 June 2016, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of their relevant provisions;

Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General;1

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

Acknowledges the support of the Government of Uganda in facilitating the work of the United Nations at the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda;

Recalls paragraph 13 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and decides not to abolish the post of Service Delivery Manager (P-5);

Also recalls paragraph 22 of the report of the Advisory Committee, welcomes the nationalization of a number of Field Service posts, and urges the Secretary-General to continue the implementation of the nationalization plan and to report thereon in the context of the next budget submission;

Notes that the national staff of the Regional Service Centre are eligible for continuing contracts, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to ensure that national staff of the Centre are granted continuing contracts in line with the relevant provisions of General Assembly resolutions, in particular resolution 65/247 of 24 December 2010, and in compliance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations;³

³ST/SGB/2017/1 and ST/SGB/2017/1/Corr.1.

Budget performance report for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance of the Regional Service Centre for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017;⁴

⁴A/72/639.

Budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019

Approves the amount of 31,438,900 United States dollars for the maintenance of the Regional Service Centre for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019;

Financing of the budget estimates

Decides that the requirements for the Regional Service Centre for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 shall be financed as follows:

The unencumbered balance and other revenue in the amount of 2,983,200 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2017, to be applied against the resources required for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019;

The amount of 27,860,200 dollars, to be prorated among the budgets of the active peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019;

The amount of 595,500 dollars, to be charged against the appropriation under section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019, as approved by the General Assembly in its resolutions 72/263 A to C of 24 December 2017;

The estimated staff assessment income of 2,792,300 dollars, comprising the amount of 2,892,400 dollars for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 and the decrease of 100,100 dollars in respect of the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017, to be offset against the balance referred to in subparagraph (b) above, to be prorated among the budgets of the individual active peacekeeping operations;

Also decides to consider at its seventy-third session the question of the financing of the Regional Service Centre.