Decision 59/52

Following the discussion, the Executive Committee decided:

1. To approve the additional amount of US $3,144,869 in the revised 2010 budget of the Fund Secretariat to cover the operational costs of the Secretariat and the Treasury fees as per decision 59/51(b) as contained in Annex IX to the present report, which includes the Multilateral Fund climate impact indicator allocation of US $50,000 and multi-year agreement table on‑line access of US $60,000, noting that the latter should be deducted from the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer’s work programme, resulting in a total of US $6,737,950;
2. To approve the proposed 2012 salary staff component costs of the budget totalling US $3,888,905 as contained in Annex IX to the present report, which was calculated on a basis of a 3 per cent inflation rate against the 2011 staff cost levels;
3. To request the Secretariat to provide supporting documents from UNEP to justify a 5 per cent annual increase and had been normally applied against staff costs and to report the findings back to the 60^th Meeting of the Executive Committee, taking into account the practice of United Nations agencies based in Montreal;
4. To consider, at its 60^th Meeting, whether the Committee would like to revisit the salary staff component costs of the 2011 and 2012 budget to reflect the discussion as described in subparagraph (c) above;
5. To request the Secretariat to facilitate this process with the help of an informal budget group in the margins of the 60^th Meeting of the Executive Committee;
6. To note that the approved 2010 budget was based on the typical costs of holding Executive Committee Meetings in Montreal; and
7. To note that the Secretariat had had to move anticipated savings in 2009 under some budget components in order to cover the overrun on conference service costs with respect to holding the 59^th Meeting of the Executive Committee in Port Ghalib, Egypt.