Business plans for the year 2000 of UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO and the World Bank

The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that UNDP should finalize its business plan for the year 2000, taking into account the following:

(a)  the technical assistance project with net incremental savings should not be included;

(b)  activities related to the halon sector should be increased;

(c)  the cost-effectiveness threshold from approvals in the non-weighted indicators for investment projects should be revised;

(d)  ODP phase-out targets as a performance indicator should be established at 13,646 ODP tonnes as calculated by the Secretariat in line with decision 26/8;

(e)  UNDP had changed its project completion report target to 100 per cent;

(f)  UNDP should reassess its speed of delivery indicators.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/14, para. 35).

The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that UNEP should finalize its business plan for the year 2000, on the understanding that:

(a)  UNEP should provide targets for both its non-weighted performance indicators in its final business plan;

(b)  UNEP should remove Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates from its business plan;

(c)  the preparation of the country programme for Kuwait should, for the time being, be retained in the business plan and the Secretariat should send a letter urging the country to seek other means of satisfying its needs, possibly through trust fund arrangements with UNIDO.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/15, para. 36).

The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that UNIDO should finalize its business plan for the year 2000 and the revised performance indicators as provided by fax to the Secretariat.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/17, para. 39).

The Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided that the World Bank should finalize its business plan for the year 2000.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/29/65, Decision 29/18, para. 40).

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the revised business plan of UNDP for the year 2000, while noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor of their funding level;

(b)  to reaffirm the targets set by the Executive Committee in decision 29/14 as 13,646 ODP tonnes for the target "ODP phased out from previous approvals" and 100% for the target "satisfactory project completion reports received";

(c)  to approve the performance indicators for UNDP set out in the following tables and sub-paragraph (b) above and the figure of 6,750 ODP tonnes as the performance indicator for net emissions/reductions of ODP resulting from implementation delays/early project completion.

Investment Project Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees, but not over-programming.

**The fund disbursed is based on US $40 million plus agency fees.

Non-Investment Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees.

**The fund disbursed is based on US $1,799,127 plus agency fees.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/15, paras 35).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/12 and Corr.1).

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the revised business plan of UNEP for the year 2000 (UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/13), while noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor of their funding level;

(b)  to approve the performance indicators for UNEP set out in the following tables in the year 2000 business plan of UNEP.

Non-Investment Performance Indicators

As requested, UNEP provided targets for its two non-weighted performance indicators:

*      Reduction in ODS consumption over and above that effected by investment projects (40 MT ODS).

*      Appropriate and timely policies initiated by countries either as a result of networking, training, information exchange, country programme development and/or institutional strengthening (10 countries to adopt policies during 2000).

UNEP-Specific Non-Investment Performance Indicators

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/16, paras 36).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/13 and Corr.1).

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the revised business plan of UNIDO for the year 2000, while noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor of their funding level;

(b)  to take note of the performance indicators for non-weighted non-investment projects, namely, one to two countries for the indicator “Appropriate and timely policies initiated by countries either as a result of networking, training, information exchange, CP development and/or institutional strengthening” and 5-10 ODP tonnes to result from ongoing training programmes in the recovery and recycling projects;

(c)  to approve the performance indicators for UNIDO set out in the following tables in the year 2000 business plan of UNIDO and sub-paragraph (b) above;

(d)  to note the revisions to UNIDO's business plan to replace the tobacco sector project in its contingency list and to add to its business plan's contingency list contingency projects that might be used to replace projects for Kenya.

Investment Project Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees but not over-programming

Non-Investment Performance Indicators

*Including agency fees

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/17, paras 37).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/14 and Corr.1).

The Thirtieth Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a)  to endorse the revised business plan of the World Bank for the year 2000, while noting that the endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor of their funding level;

(b)  to approve the performance indicators for the World Bank set out in the following tables in the year 2000 business plan of the World Bank.

Investment project performance indicators

*Include agency fees, but not over-programming

Non-investment performance indicators

Include agency fees

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/41, Decision 30/18, paras 38).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/30/15 and Corr.1).