Support Account for Peacekeeping Operations

A/RES/73/308View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 150 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2019.

What else is in this group?

38 documents · 1994–2026

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2026).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/240 B	Support account for peacekeeping operations	—	–
2025	A/RES/80/240	Support account for peacekeeping operations	107	–
2025	A/RES/79/298	Support account for peacekeeping operations	1,447	–
2024	A/RES/78/293	Support account for peacekeeping operations	1,354	–
2023	A/RES/77/304	Support account for peacekeeping operations	1,302	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Financial Resources Peacekeeping Operations Programme Budgeting Staffing Support Accounts

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 20202 and the report of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee on the proposed budget of the Office of Internal Oversight Services under the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;3

Reaffirms its role in carrying out a thorough analysis and approval of human and financial resources and policies with a view to ensuring the full, effective and efficient implementation of all mandated programmes and activities and the implementation of policies in this regard;

Also reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibility for administrative and budgetary matters;

Further reaffirms rule 153 of its rules of procedure;

Reaffirms that the support account funds shall be used for the sole purpose of financing human resources and non-human resources requirements for backstopping and supporting peacekeeping operations at Headquarters, and that any changes in this limitation require the prior approval of the General Assembly;

Also reaffirms the need for adequate funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations, as well as the need for full justification for that funding in support account budget submissions;

Further reaffirms the need for effective and efficient administration and financial management of peacekeeping operations, and urges the Secretary-General to continue to identify measures to increase the productivity and efficiency of the support account;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of the relevant provisions of its resolutions 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 of 25 June 2015 and 70/286 of 17 June 2016, and other relevant resolutions;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,4 subject to the provisions of the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

Decides to maintain, for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020, the funding mechanism for the support account used in the current period, from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019, as approved in paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/221 B;

Reaffirms that the use of external consultants should be kept to an absolute minimum and that their services should be used only when necessary, and stresses the need for using the in-house capacity of the Organization to perform core activities or to fulfil functions that are recurrent over the long term;

Budget performance report for the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance of the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018;1

Budget estimates for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020

Approves the support account requirements in the amount of 348,868,000 United States dollars for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020, inclusive of the amount of 19,376,900 dollars for the enterprise resource planning project, 821,500 dollars for information and systems security, 868,500 dollars for the global service delivery model project, 3,881,600 dollars for peacekeeping capability readiness and 20,803,300 dollars for Umoja maintenance and support costs, including 1,357 continuing posts and 9 new temporary posts, as well as the abolishment, redeployment, reassignment and reclassification of posts, as set out in annex I to the present resolution, and 59 continuing and 3 new general temporary assistance positions and 52 person-months, as set out in annex II, as well as related post and non-post requirements;

Financing of the support account for peacekeeping operations for the financial periods from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018 and from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020

Decides that the requirements for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 shall be financed as follows:

The unencumbered balance in the amount of 18,800 dollars, in respect of the financial period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018, to be applied to the resources required for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

The total amount of 3,040,600 dollars, comprising investment revenue of 1,152,200 dollars, other miscellaneous revenue of 277,900 dollars and the cancellation of prior-period obligations of 1,610,500 dollars in respect of the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018, to be applied to the resources required for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

The amount of 1,973,400 dollars, representing the excess of the authorized level of the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2018, to be applied to the resources required for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

The balance of 343,835,200 dollars to be prorated among the budgets of the active peacekeeping operations for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

The net estimated staff assessment income of 24,482,200 dollars, comprising the amount of 25,317,800 dollars for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 and the decrease of 835,600 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2018, to be offset against the balance referred to in subparagraph (d) above, to be prorated among the budgets of the individual active peacekeeping operations.

A Posts to be established under the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020

Note: The specific assignment and location of each of the new posts is set out in the report of the Secretary-General on the budget for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 (A/73/793) and referenced in the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/73/849).

Abbreviations: GS (OL), General Service (Other level); MINUSCA, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic.

B Redeployment, reassignment, reclassification and abolishment of posts under the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020

Redeployment

Department of Operational Support/Division of Administration, New York/ Headquarters Client Support Service

Redeployment of 2 posts (2 GS (OL) Human Resources Assistants) from the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance/Office of Human Resources

Office of Internal Oversight Services/Investigations Division/Resident Investigations Office of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic

Redeployment of 2 posts (1 P-3 Resident Investigator and 1 NGS Administrative Assistant) from the Resident Investigations Office of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti

Office of Internal Oversight Services/Internal Audit Division/Entebbe

Redeployment of 1 post (1 P-5 Chief Resident Auditor) from the Resident Audit Office of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (as of February 2020)

Reassignment

Office of Internal Oversight Services/Inspection and Evaluation Division/Entebbe

Reassignment of 1 post (1 P-5 Chief Resident Investigator to be reassigned and reclassified as 1 P-4 Evaluation Officer (Management and Programme Analyst)) from the Investigations Division/Resident Investigations Office of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti

Reassignment of 1 post (1 P-3 Resident Auditor to be reassigned as 1 P-3 Evaluation Officer (Management and Programme Analyst)) from the Internal Audit Division/ Resident Audit Office of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (as of February 2020)

Reclassification

Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance/Office of Programme Planning, Finance and Budget/Field Operations Finance Division

Reclassification of 1 post (1 GS (OL) Finance and Budget Assistant to be reclassified as 1 GS (PL) Senior Finance and Budget Assistant)

Abolishment

Office of Internal Oversight Services/Internal Audit Division/Resident Audit Office of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti

Abolishment of 1 post (1 NGS Administrative Assistant) (as of February 2020)

Abolishment of 1 post (1 FS Administrative Assistant)

Office of Information and Communications Technology/Enterprise Solutions Service/ Enterprise applications centre – Asia

Abolishment of 1 post (1 GS (OL) Administrative Assistant (Inspira support function))

Abbreviations: FS, Field Service; GS (OL), General Service (Other level); GS (PL), General Service (Principal level); NGS, national General Service.

General temporary assistance positions to be established under the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020

Note: The specific assignment and location of each of the general temporary assistance positions is set out in the report of the Secretary-General on the budget for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 (A/73/793) and referenced in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/73/849).

Abbreviations: FS, Field Service; GS (OL), General Service (Other level); NGS, national General Service.

a Person-months are indicated in the column entitled “Level”.