Business plans for the years 2004-2006 of UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank

Business plans for the years 2004-2006 of UNEP, UNDP , UNIDO and the World Bank

The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a) to endorse the 2004-2006 business plan of UNDP, as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/8 and Corr.1 and as orally amended to include a possible project for Cuba, while noting that endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels; and

(b) to approve the following performance indicators for UNDP:

Category	Item	Weighting	2004 target
Approval	Number of annual programmes of multi-year agreements approved vs. those planned	20	21
Approval	Number of individual projects/activities (investment projects, RMPs, halon banks, TAS) approved vs. those planned	20	32
Implementation	Milestone activities completed (e.g. policy measures, regulatory assistance)/ODS levels achieved for approved multi-year annual tranches vs. those planned	20	12
Implementation	ODS phased-out for individual projects vs. those planned per progress reports	5	4,919 ODP tonnes
Implementation	Project completion (pursuant to Decision 28/2 for investment projects) and as defined for non-investment projects vs. those planned in progress reports	5	113
Implementation	Percentage of policy/regulatory assistance completed vs. that planned	10	N/a
Administrative	Speed of financial completion vs. that required per progress report completion dates	10	217
Administrative	Timely submission of project completion reports vs. those agreed	5	Yes
Administrative	Timely submission of progress reports and responses unless otherwise agreed	5	On 1 May 2004

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/8, para. 50).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom42/54, Annex II).

The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a) to endorse the 2004-2006 business plan of UNEP as contained in document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/9 and as orally amended to include the projects already submitted for Bangladesh and a non-governmental organization methyl bromide project, while noting that endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels; and

(b) to approve the following performance indicators for UNEP:

Category	Item	Weighting	2004 target
Approval	Number of annual programmes of multi-year agreements approved vs. those planned, may not be applicable to UNEP	20	Not applicable to UNEP
Approval	Number of individual projects/activities (investment projects, RMPs, halon banks, TAS) approved vs. those planned	20	28 countries (i.e. 100%). UNEP believes that a realistic achievement is 17 countries (i.e. 60%).
Implementation	Milestone activities completed (e.g. policy measures, regulatory assistance)/ODS levels achieved for approved multi-year annual tranches vs. those planned, may not be applicable to UNEP	20	Not applicable to UNEP
Implementation	ODS phased-out for individual projects vs. those planned per progress reports, may not be applicable to UNEP	5	21.2 ODP tonnes from the IS project for Algeria (i.e. 100%)
Implementation	Project completion (pursuant to Decision 28/2 for investment projects) and as defined for non-investment projects vs. those planned in progress reports	5	38 projects (i.e. 100%)
Implementation	Percentage of policy/regulatory assistance completed vs. that planned	10	11 projects (i.e. 100%). UNEP believes that a realistic achievement is 9 projects (i.e. 80%)
Administrative	Speed of financial completion vs. that required per progress report completion dates	10	100%
Administrative	Timely submission of project completion reports vs. those agreed	5	Timely submission
Administrative	Timely submission of progress reports and responses unless otherwise agreed	5	Timely submission

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/9, para. 52).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom42/54, Annex III).

The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a) to endorse the 2004-2006 business plan of UNIDO, as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/10 and Corrs.1 and 2 and as orally amended, to bring forward the Serbia and Montenegro project from 2005, modify the phase-out in the MDI and RMP projects in China and remove the methyl bromide project in Viet Nam, taking into account the clarification provided by the representative of UNIDO, while noting that endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels; and

(b) to approve the following performance indicators for UNIDO:

Category	Item	Weighting	2004 target
Approval	Number of annual programmes of multi-year agreements approved vs. those planned, may not be applicable to UNEP	20	16 approved + 14 new ones
Approval	Number of individual projects/activities (investment projects, RMPs, halon banks, TAS) approved vs. those planned	20	7
Implementation	Milestone activities completed (e.g. policy measures, regulatory assistance)/ODS levels achieved for approved multi-year annual tranches vs. those planned	20	16
Implementation	ODS phased-out for individual projects vs. those planned per progress reports	5	5,666 ODP tonnes
Implementation	Project completion (pursuant to Decision 28/2 for investment projects) and as defined for non-investment projects vs. those planned in progress reports	5	70
Implementation	Policy/regulatory assistance completed vs. that planned	10	4
Administrative	Speed of financial completion vs. that required per progress report completion dates	10	12 months
Administrative	Timely submission of project completion reports vs. those agreed	5	On time
Administrative	Timely submission of progress reports and responses unless otherwise agreed	5	On time

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/10, para. 54).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom42/54, Annex IV).

The Forty-second Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a) to endorse the 2004–2006 business plan of the World Bank, as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/11 and Corrs. 1 and 2, with the withdrawal of planned chiller projects in Argentina and Mexico, whose implementation by the World Bank would be subsumed into those countries’ national implementation plans, as well as the withdrawal of the accelerated CTC production phase-out project in China, while noting that endorsement did not denote approval of the projects identified therein nor their funding levels; and

(b) to approve the following performance indicators for the World Bank:

Category	Item	Weighting	2004 target
Approval	Number of annual programmes of multi-year agreements approved vs. those planned, may not be applicable to UNEP	20	13/13^(*)
Approval	Number of individual projects/activities (investment projects, RMPs, halon banks, TAS) approved vs. those planned	20	10/10
Implementation	Milestone activities completed (e.g. policy measures, regulatory assistance)/ODS levels achieved for approved multi-year annual tranches vs. those planned, may not be applicable to UNEP	20	15/15
Implementation	ODS phased-out for individual projects vs. those planned per progress reports, may not be applicable to UNEP	5	8,076 ODP tonnes
Implementation	Project completion (pursuant to Decision 28/2 for investment projects) and as defined for non-investment projects vs. those planned in progress reports	5	72
Implementation	Percentage of policy/regulatory assistance completed vs. that planned	10	N/A
Administrative	Speed of financial completion vs. that required per progress report completion dates	10	3 months
Administrative	Timely submission of project completion reports vs. those agreed	5	100%
Administrative	Timely submission of progress reports/responses unless otherwise agreed	5	100%

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/42/54, Decision 42/11, para. 56).

(Supporting document: UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom42/54, Annex V).

The Forty-third Meeting of the Executive Committee decided:

(a) to note the report on the status of the 2004 business plans as contained in documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/5 and Add.1, and the fact that US $94 million remained to be submitted for 22 new multi-year agreements and 176 other projects contained in the 2004 business plans;

(b) to urge bilateral and Implementing Agencies with projects in the 2004 business plans for countries at risk of non-compliance to submit those projects to the 44th Meeting as a matter of urgency, and to consider the projects identified in Table 3 of UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/5 as priority projects; and

(i) to send a letter, in conjunction with the Implementing Agencies responsible for institutional strengthening and the Ozone Secretariat, to countries at risk of non-compliance urging them to put forward projects through the implementing and bilateral agencies as soon as possible;

(ii) to prepare a document, to be submitted to the 44th Meeting of the Executive Committee, on a potential procedure for intersessional approval of projects for countries at risk of non-compliance, when such projects were in the business plan for a given year and there was no disagreement between the Secretariat and the implementing agency; and

(iii) to include in the document to be submitted to the 44th Meeting of the Executive Committee an examination of the reasons for the non submission of projects for countries at risk of non compliance.

(UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/61, Decision 43/3, para. 33).