Decision in paragraph 48 in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/5/16

5th Meeting of the Executive Committee
November 1991
Mexico
UNDP | UNEP | World Bank
Business planning and work programmes - policies | Project-by-project, sectoral and national phase-out approaches

48.  At the conclusion of the discussion, the Executive Committee decided the following:

  1. There was still need for more coordination of the activities proposed by the three implementing agencies in their work programmes. There must be clear identification of those activities so as to ensure that an activity was not being duplicated (especially with respect to time and cost of preparation) within the same agency work programme and, of course, among the three agencies.
  2. The sectoral approach was a mechanism to achieve the kind of coordination that would save both money and time. It would also facilitate an overview of regional activities.
  3. The Secretariat should undertake the exercise with the cooperation of the implementing agencies and should prepare a consolidated document that contained a sector by sector description of activities, a consolidated country by country summary of those activities, and the expected outputs of such activities to the extent such information was available. Proposed budgets for each implementing agency's activities should be included in the consolidated document.
  4. Planned 1992 work programme activities would be authorized by the Executive Committee up to and until the date at which the Committee approved the implementing agencies' 1992 work programmes.
  5. The Executive Committee decided to allocate, until further review at its Sixth Meeting, $ 1,125,000 to the World Bank, $ 500,000 to UNDP and $ 300,000 to UNEP. The Committee emphasized that those sums should be used for effective operational purposes.
  6. Proposals for funding the CFC Office and proposals for the endorsement of specific policy recommendations were separated out for further consideration by the Government of Mexico. The amounts for funding were reduced to $ 4 million and approved on condition that all projects larger than $ 500,000 would be presented for approval by the Executive Committee and more detailed descriptions would be presented to the Executive Committee at its sixth meeting, including an indication of priorities for the timing of projects.