It had consistently emphasized the importance of strengthening the capacity and role of national staff in United Nations peacekeeping missions, which could lower overhead costs, without decreasing efficiency.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

Likewise, in order to minimize overhead costs, part of the office space was sublet to another United Nations office.

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.

But it's never going to happen by forcing these organizations to lower their horizons to the demoralizing objective of keeping their overhead low.

The other thing is that we ve got much lower costs.

We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Field operating costs have been reduced by 1,147,800 and the new staffing structure resulted in lower staff costs.

(d) Simplification of the administration of transaction and lower transaction costs.

(f) Relaxed reliability owing to the shorter lifetime or agreed, lower levels of product assurance or lower quality parts as appropriate to lower development costs

Requests the Secretary General to review the administrative support structure for the quick impact projects with a view to minimizing overhead costs for their implementation

Project funding is not so good, because it has high overhead costs and sometimes does not fit in very well with the priorities of governmental partners.

62 63) As an intermediate stage to that goal, consolidation of the procurement overhead structures and costs of the funds and programmes based at Headquarters (para. 62)

1.171 To meet the emerging standards for business training and business development services (BDS), where all the direct costs of training are met from participation fees and only the overhead and administrative costs are subsidised from donor contributions.

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.

For organizations with centralized procurement services, the low procurement volume per staff member and relatively high overhead costs can be attributed to the fragmentation of the procurement function at different duty stations so much so that organizations located together in New York, Geneva, Vienna or Copenhagen are still to begin sharing procurement overhead services and costs, for example through common service arrangements discussed later in this report.

Overhead charge and its use In accordance with the financial procedures (decision 15 CP.1), the Convention budget is required to provide for a 13 per cent overhead charge to the United Nations to cover the costs of the administrative services which the United Nations provides to the Convention.

The overhead went up.

The estimated costs for the Sixth Review Conference reflect the maximum duration identified for that meeting a shorter duration would result in lower costs.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

(e) Deployment of fewer than projected vehicles resulting in lower costs for petrol, oil and lubricants

2D overhead shooter in Zero G

Now, there she goes, right overhead.

I saw a helicopter flying overhead.

Staffing requirements funded from overhead charges

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

The decrease under this heading is attributable to reduced requirements under common staff costs arising from lower actual common staff costs than projected ( 2,795,700) offset by increased requirements under salaries ( 2,605,200) owing to the lower than budgeted vacancy rate realized for the Professional category.

debt service coverage reduces the financial risk to investors and translates into lower borrowing costs for the borrower.

The competitive pressure to lower production costs has also influenced the geographical destinations of these SMEs from Singapore.

Programme support costs (overhead charge) and working capital reserve In accordance with the financial procedures (decision 15 CP.1), the Convention budget is required to provide for 13 per cent of the programme expenditures as overhead charge, and to maintain a working capital reserve of 8.3 per cent of the Convention budget (one month of operating requirements).

Cheaper photovoltaic cells may enable remote villages to get electricity without the fixed costs of long transmission lines. Mobile banking may lower the fixed costs faced by traditional banks.

Other restrictions in domestic Internet markets often make it difficult for ISPs in developing countries to lower their costs.

But the profits that would be lost remain lower than the potential costs of another major financial crisis. The eurozone s member states should never again have to face such costs.

Now, this idea that overhead is somehow an enemy of the cause creates this second, much larger problem, which is, it forces organizations to go without the overhead things they really need to grow in the interest of keeping overhead low.

So we know there's an ice shelf overhead.

So here's an overhead warmer and a CPAP.

114. Also calls upon the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies to ensure, to the extent possible, that savings resulting from reductions in transaction and overhead costs accrue to development programmes in programme countries

In order to self finance its overhead costs as well as the inter agency services, it needs to win procurement contracts, given that upwards of 80 per cent of its income derives from procurement fees.

As enterprises seek to reduce operational costs, they have the option to outsource non core activities to countries that can provide a high level of service with much lower labour costs.

They can even capture opportunities if they are able to innovate and show flexibility because of their lower fixed costs.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

The net decrease of 25,200 is attributable mainly to lower requirements in other staff costs based on the current pattern of expenditure.

The sun is overhead there. Summer rains in southern Africa.

This allows you to minimize the overhead of handling asynchronous events.