80. On the recommendation of the above-mentioned sub‑committee, the Executive Committee approved the following 1994 UNEP Work Programme for an amount of US $2,877,140, including US $331,000 as support costs for UNEP:
Approved amount US $
1. Information exchange
Sectoral data collection 215,000
Maintain query-response service 60,000
Publish/disseminate OzonAction newsletter
and special supplements 150,000
Approved Amount US $
Continue to update and upload on-line
and diskette versions 100,000
Outreach of conferences/workshops 50,000
Information dissemination 380,000
Quality review of technology catalogues 50,000
Prepare information papers/fact sheets 60,000
Translate technical brochures 40,000
2. Training
Follow-up of earlier training activities 50,000
Workshop for SMEs 80,000
3. Networking
ODSONET/LA 224,000
ODSONET/AF 180,000
4. Country programmes of: 400,000
Bahrain, Central African Republic, Jamaica,
Lebanon, Malta, Myanmar, Samoa, St. Kitts
and Nevis, and Swaziland
5. International halon bank
management information
clearinghouse
Continue information collection
& dissemination 50,000
Prepare halon bank management case
study logbook 40,000
Translate Halon Management: Banking
for the Future (information kit) 10,000
Approved Amount US $
6. Advisory and expert group meetings
Informal Advisory Group Meeting (IAG) 50,000
Ad hoc Group Meetings 80,000
Meeting of the Consultants 70,000
7. Travel 100,000
8. Institutional Strengthening:
Fiji 65,890
Maldives 41,250
81. The Executive Committee decided that the networking activities would be for a three-year period. However, the amounts of US $224,000 for ODSONET/LA and US $180,000 for ODSONET/AF would apply to 1994 only. It approved the cost of the meeting of consultants (US $70,000) on the understanding that UNEP and the Fund Secretariat would collaborate in preparing the terms of reference for the meeting and the modalities for expanding its scope. Regarding the activity "continue and improve sectoral data collection" (US $215,000), UNEP was requested to provide details of the cost of the activity in future work programmes, addressing in particular the effectiveness of the on-line information exchange service.
82. The Executive Committee decided to defer the Regional Data Collection Systems Workshop for Africa pending submission by the Secretariat to the Thirteenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of a paper dealing with the scope of activities under the institutional strengthening projects and country programme preparation and how they related to data collection.