Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda

A/RES/73/309View 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 other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2016–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/273

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/273	Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda	644	60%Compare
2025	A/RES/79/299	Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda	546	87%Compare
2024	A/RES/78/294	Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda	579	87%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/306	Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda	547	92%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/278	Financing of the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda	548	87%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

16 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 the role of the Transportation and Movements Integrated Control Centre, notes the precipitous decline in the number of flight hours, and requests the Secretary-General to provide more information regarding the utilization of the Integrated Control Centre, including the cause of the decline, in the context of his next report;

Encourages the Regional Service Centre to enable support mechanisms to facilitate the air transportation services provided by Member States to peacekeeping missions in the region from Entebbe;

Emphasizes the importance of the accountability system of the Secretariat, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to strengthen risk management and internal controls in the management of peacekeeping budgets and to report thereon in the context of his next report;

Also emphasizes the importance of overall budgetary performance in peacekeeping operations, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to implement the recommendations of the relevant oversight bodies and to report thereon in the context of the performance reports;

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 Regional Service Centre for the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018;³

³A/73/612.

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

Approves the amount of 35,386,900 United States dollars for the maintenance of the Regional Service Centre for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

Financing of the budget estimates

Decides that the requirements for the Regional Service Centre for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 shall be financed as follows:

The unencumbered balance and other revenue in the amount of 918,100 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2018, to be applied against the resources required for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

The amount of 33,044,400 dollars, to be prorated among the budgets of the active client peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020;

The amount of 1,424,400 dollars, with respect to the share of client special political missions, to be funded under section 3, Political affairs, as may be approved by the General Assembly in the context of the proposed programme budget for 2020;

The estimated staff assessment income of 3,191,300 dollars, comprising the amount of 3,217,400 dollars for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 and the decrease of 26,100 dollars in respect of the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018, to be offset against the balance referred to in subparagraph (b) above, to be prorated among the budgets of the individual active client peacekeeping operations;

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