Decision 91/8

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To note:
   1. The evaluation of the performance of implementing agencies against their 2021 business plans, as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/91/9;
   2. That all implementing agencies had a quantitative assessment of their performance for 2021 of at least 73 on a scale of 100;
   3. That the quantitative performance of all implementing agencies had improved in 2021 compared to 2020;
   4. That trend analysis indicated that the performance of the implementing agencies had not improved in some indicators in 2021 in relation to 2020;
   5. With appreciation, both the efforts undertaken by bilateral and implementing agencies to have open and constructive discussions with the respective national ozone units about the areas in which their services were perceived to be less than satisfactory and the satisfactory outcome of their consultations with the national ozone units concerned;
2. To encourage national ozone units 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 75 out of the 144 Article 5 countries had submitted such assessments for 2021, compared with 37 in 2020; and
3. To request the Secretariat to prepare, in consultation with the implementing agencies, a revised set of performance indicators for consideration by the Executive Committee at its 93rd meeting, including ways to assess more effectively the performance of the implementing agencies.