Having considered the recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Monitoring, Evaluation and Finance (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/4, para. 15), the Executive Committee decided:
(a) To note with appreciation the consolidated progress report of the Multilateral Fund contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/9 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/34/9/Corr.1;
(b) To request the implementing agencies and bilateral donors to provide reports to the 35th meeting on the projects with implementation delays indicated in Annex VI to the present report, and further elucidate their reasons for such delays, including any reasons linked to Executive Committee decisions.
(c) To urge the following countries, for which ongoing projects had been delayed for over two years, to take action to expedite their projects’ implementation: Bahamas, Bolivia, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Guyana, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu;
(d) To add a performance indicator for the timely submission of progress reports;
(e) Also to add new entries for agency support costs, year of business plan, and whether or not the project was in the investment or non-investment allocation per project in the progress report database;
(f) To request the World Bank to provide the support cost per project for all the projects approved up to the 16th meeting by pro-rating the administrative costs approved up to that meeting on an annual basis, while noting that any evaluation of agency support costs for the Bank would take into account the method by which support costs for the Bank were originally approved.