Statistical report of the ACC on the budgetary and financial situation of the organizations of the United Nations system (1996)

The present report is the fourth of its kind to be presented by the Administrative Committee on Coordination.

The tables in the report are grouped under the following three subject headings:

(a) Regular budgets and assessed contributions:

Table 1. Approved regular budgets (1988-1997). This table shows, for each of the organizations appearing in the report which has an assessed regular budget and for each of the years from 1988 to 1997, the total amount of approved regular budget appropriations, including any supplementary estimates.

Table 2. Assessed contributions (1988-1997). This table shows, for each of the same organizations and the same years as in table 1, the total assessments payable by member States under approved regular budgets. Assessed contributions, relating to extrabudgetary activities, such as certain peacekeeping operations of the United Nations, are not included.

Table 3. Percentage assessments (1996-1997). This table shows, for each of the States members of the organizations in the preceding tables, the percentage amounts of the assessed contributions payable under approved regular budgets in 1996 and 1997;

Table 4. Assessments voted and received (1994-1995). This table shows, for each of the States members of the organizations in the preceding tables, the assessments payable under approved regular budgets and, in the case of the United Nations, under peacekeeping, and the amounts collected in relation to current assessments and arrears in 1994 and 1995.

Table 5. Collection of assessed contributions (1994-1995). This table shows, for each of the same organizations as in the preceding tables, the percentage of the current year's assessed contributions under approved regular budgets that was collected at 30 June and at 30 September of the two most recent years for which such data are available (1994 and 1995). The table also shows, by organization, the total amount of ail assessed contributions under approved regular budgets that were outstanding as at 30 September in the same two years.


(b) Working capital funds:

Table 6. Working capital funds (1996-1997). This table shows, for each of the same organizations as in the preceding tables, the level of working capital funds in relation to the level of approved regular budget estimates for the period 1996-1997.

(c) Expenditure and receipts of voluntary contributions:

Table 7. Voluntary contributions: expenditure (1994-1995). This table shows expenditure of resources in cash and in kind outside approved regular budgets by each of the same organÏzations as in the preceding tables, and by organizations financed from voluntary contributions, in 1994 and 1995. Expenditure for ail activities for which organizations are executing agents is taken into account except that, as in table 2, data relating to extrabudgetary peacekeeping operations are excluded.

Table 8. Voluntary contributions: funds received (1994-1995). This table shows voluntary contributions in cash and in kind received by each of the same organizations as in table 7, in the same years (1994 and 1995). Data are presented in two sections: section A, Receipts from countries and territories; section: B, Receipts from other contributors.