Decision 56/68

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve the amount of US $2,714,587 in the revised 2009 budget of the Fund Secretariat contained in Annex XVIII to the present report to cover the operational costs of the Secretariat, resulting in a total of US $6,135,678 with the inclusion of the 2009 salary component already approved at the 54^th Meeting of the Executive Committee;
2. To note the amount of US $3,592,146 for the salary component in 2010 already approved at the 54^th Meeting;
3. To approve the proposed 2011 salary component of the budget totalling US $3,771,753;
4. To allow the Secretariat, on a one-time basis, flexibility in the 2008 budget to exceed the 20 per cent limit to reallocate funds among budget lines and move anticipated savings of approximately US $50,000 from the sub-contract component to cover the overrun on conference service costs under the Executive Committee line in respect of having held the 55^th Meeting of the Executive Committee in Bangkok, back-to-back with the meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Montreal Protocol in July 2008;
5. That the funds allocated to the position of the temporary staff assuming the role of the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in 2009 were limited to the budgetary allocation for that position only; and
6. To reconsider the budget for this position concurrently with its decision on the future priorities and arrangements for the monitoring and evaluation programme.