Requests UNAIDS at its 31st meeting to report on development concerning the Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) following the adoption of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and its associated goals and targets;
Requests UNAIDS at its 31st meeting to report on development concerning the Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) following the adoption of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and its associated goals and targets;
Recognizing the need for a comprehensive strategy to mitigate risk due to currency fluctuations, requests UNAIDS to conduct further analysis of the shorter and longer term financial and programme implications including planned changes in staffing patterns and the options for currency fluctuation risk mitigation, including the potential for splitting the currency of contributions and to provide this analysis to the 32nd meeting of the Programme Coordinating Board for its consideration;
Takes note of the Executive Director’s approach to mitigate the long term impact of currency fluctuations;
Authorizes the Executive Director to use the Building Renovation Fund to meet the costs of major repairs of, alterations to, and investments in, the UNAIDS office building and report on the use of the Fund to the Programme Coordinating Board;
Endorses the establishment of a Building Renovation Fund with an initial amount of US$ 2.6 million and approves replenishment of the Building Renovation Fund on an annual basis out of the fund balance for the amount of accumulated depreciation to the UNAIDS building, or such other amount as might be determined by the Programme Coordinating Board;
Authorizes the remaining estimated US$ 29 million shortfall in the organizational liabilities for employees to be covered from the fund balance over a period of five years or less, subject to availability of funds;
Endorses the Executive Director’s recommendation to fully fund the organizational staff-related liabilities from the fund balance and approve the funding of an initial amount of US$ 20 million;
Encourages donor governments to release their contributions towards the 2012-2015 Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework as soon as possible;
Takes note of the interim financial management update for the 2012-2013 biennium for the period 1 January 2012 to 31 March 2012;
Accepts the financial report and audited financial statements for the financial period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2011;
The NGO Delegation welcomes the core indicator on gender-based violence and looks forward to seeing increased progress in eliminating gender inequalities and gender based abuse.
We would like UNAIDS to ensure that baselines are available for every target in order to measure impact and for us to track our own progress.
We note under the target of closing the resource gap: intensify mobilization of resources for the AIDS response (p. 24) that we have no figures indicating that the gap is closing. We recognize in our own report the dependence on multilateral institutions and international funding, and the tools being made available in order to more efficiently response to HIV. However, we hope that the next reporting cycle will show in numbers how UNAIDS has helped to close the funding gap as acknowledged in the 2011 Political Declaration.
The NGO Delegation would like to thank the Secretariat for the financial report and the performance monitoring report. We realize that much work goes into preparing this information. It is encouraging to get an overview of the achievements of UNAIDS and co-sponsors and good to see us moving toward our results matrix and getting closer to reporting on impact, rather than just activities.
The PCB took note of the precarious cash flow situation that faces UNAIDS at the beginning of each year. It recommended that, as soon as possible, UNAIDS should establish a working capital fund. This fund in the first instance would be constituted by the funds carried over from the 1995 balance forward and the WHO/GPA carryover, in order to ensure that the necessary funds would be available at the beginning of each year, pending the receipt of contributions.
The PCB took note of the interim financial information management for the 1998-1999 biennium as at 30 April 1998, and encouraged donors, governments and other partners who have not yet done so to confirm at the earliest possible moment the level of the 1998 contribution to UNAIDS, the contribution towards the Coordinated Appeal, and to transfer the funds as soon as possible.
The PCB, having examined the financial report and audited financial statement for the financial period 1 January 1996 to 31 December 1997 and the unqualified report to the PCB of the External Auditor, accepts the financial report and audited financial statement for the specified financial period and the report of the External Auditor to the PCB.