Project support costs

Project support costs 56 60

In prior bienniums, these costs were shown as part of project costs.

(b) Project costs tend to be higher

b) The project budget comprises mainly non recurrent costs funded by earmarked project contributions.

Project costs a 2 075 71.7 2 103 70.0

UNDP Office for Project Operational costs for UNU INRA

The 387,816 transferred to the reserve resulted from standard project costs exceeding actual costs by this amount.

Further, project management practices within the Secretariat, including the estimating and tracking of project costs, vary greatly.

4. Project costs unspent allocations as at 31 December 1993 ... 49

(a) limiting the costs of support measures and backstopping, especially overhead costs in any case, such costs shall only represent an appropriately low percentage of the total cost of the project so as to maximize project efficiency

Fifth claim unit Claim preparation costs Iran seeks compensation in the amount of USD 51,075 for project implementation costs.

Misperceptions about associated costs and benefits can cause a project to fail.

Table 22 Summary of project costs, 2006 2007 biennium (United States dollars)

As a consequence, additional costs are expected, owing to prolonged project implementation.

(a) Limiting the costs of support measures and backstopping, especially overhead costs, so that, in any case, such costs shall only represent an appropriately low percentage of the total cost of the project so as to maximize project efficiency

The Executive Board shall bear the costs for reviewing a proposed project activity.

Transport costs and a travel allowance will be covered under the regional repatriation project.

The estimated increase in costs of the initial project can be explained by the following factors

It does not include any programme or project costs which would be funded by external donors.

Unlike budgetary support, project assistance is intended to assist development activities rather than meet recurrent costs.

(b) In order to contain costs and keep the project within budget, the following are recommended

For instance, for all the country programmes implemented by the UNHCR Buenos Aires regional office, the programme support and administration, the project personnel and the agency operational support costs were extraordinarily high compared to the total project costs.

Programme support costs UNDP denotes the percentage of total project costs as specified in the individual trust fund agreements paid to UNDP as reimbursement for costs incurred in the administration of the funds.

The Administration informed the Board that support costs and other overhead costs relating to the project should be kept to a minimum, not only during the design and pre construction phases, but also throughout the implementation of the project.

With the exception of MMP, a self funded project for which recurrent costs amount to 9.1 million for the biennium, the project budget represents unfunded activities.

If this proves true, the project will defray the transport costs of the refugees wishing to return.

24. The UNDP Office for Project Services (OPS) has reviewed the costs for management services and is satisfied that the level reflects actual administrative and management service costs.

Staff costs, support costs and operating and other overhead expenses comprised 11.6 per cent, 3.8 per cent and 3.9 per cent, respectively, of the total cost of the project.

The costs for the transportation of food and materials and agency operational support were also covered under this project, as well as the costs relating to refugee status determination.

As to monitoring and evaluation, the Committee notes that this is part of the project implementation costs, and that up to 2 per cent is allocated for project evaluation.

Everyone involved in the project is a volunteer, and they rely on small fundraising events to cover their costs.

In order to reduce transaction costs modalities and procedures are simplified for small scale CDM project activities, as follows

Reporting procedures of the common premises project should be reviewed to ensure periodic apportionment of costs to participating organizations.

Many significant items such as training and other implementation costs had not been included in the original project estimate.

A project administered by headquarters under the Overall Allocation for resettlement covers travel costs for resettlement and family reunification.

(b) Within market tolerance, increase managerial flexibility and alignment of structure with demand by converting fixed costs into project based variable costs where feasible, while containing the overall cost structure.

The current project estimate includes maintenance costs which were not included in the original estimate on the other hand, the project has been rescoped by dropping some of the functions.

The Agency has also reallocated 1.5 million from the General Fund to the hospital project, for which total costs are estimated at about 35 million, including operating costs for three years.

United Nations partners in the Atlas project will also contribute their share of the total information and communications technology costs.

The Transport II project is designed to reduce transport costs, increase system wide operational efficiency and raise foreign exchange earnings.

(a) The amount of 104,566,178 shown as project costs of general resources includes credit adjustments to prior bienniums of 1,109,121.

Project budgets were charged an assessed amount to cover external costs that were not met by the Special Voluntary Fund.

36. With rising project delivery and steady or declining administrative and other support costs, UNCDF is expected to have experienced a decline in overhead costs in 1992 by comparison with 1991, when total administrative and TSF costs represented 15.4 per cent of deliveries.

Agency Programme Support Costs denotes the percentage of total project costs authorized by the Governing Council for payment to the executing and cooperating agencies and implementing agents to reimburse them for costs incurred in the administration (technical and otherwise) of UNDP financed projects.