Decision 88/8

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The evaluation of the performance of the implementing agencies against their 2020 business plans contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/88/9;
   2. That all implementing agencies had a quantitative assessment of their performance for 2020 of at least 68 on a scale of 100;
   3. That trend analysis indicated that the performance of implementing agencies had not improved for some indicators in 2020 in relation to 2019;
   4. With appreciation, both the efforts undertaken by bilateral and implementing agencies to have open and constructive discussions with the respective national ozone units (NOUs) about the areas in which their services were perceived to be less than satisfactory and the satisfactory outcome of their consultations with the NOUs concerned;
2. To request UNIDO to have an open and constructive discussion with the NOU in Iraq, to resolve any issues raised in the evaluation of its performance and to report at the 90^th meeting on the outcome of the discussion;
3. To encourage NOUs to submit, on a yearly basis and in a timely manner, their assessments of the qualitative performance of the bilateral and implementing agencies in assisting their Governments, noting that 37 out of the 144 countries had submitted such assessments for 2020, as compared with 78 in 2019; and
4. To request the Secretariat to provide, in the subsequent evaluation of the performance of the implementing agencies, more comprehensive analysis of the results, including additional information on the reasons for the agencies not reaching their targets and suggestions about ways to improve their performance, as appropriate.