(iii) An Operations Management Support Software (OMSS) project has been launched.

The UNDP Country Office services its project operations in the country.

The project will also study airline operations, in particular the information infrastructure of main airline operations, from planning to daily operations to the gathering of statistics.

Programmatic details are provided below for headquarters, field operations and project and programme activities.

The Agency is also dependent on additional funding earmarked for project budget and emergency operations.

The guidance project of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations offers a framework for this endeavour.

The project is a cooperative venture with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the Secretariat.

Total expenditures included 15,230,713 for headquarters, 15,378,750 for field operations and 107,745,037 for project activities.

Through this group the evolution of social impacts was monitored through project construction and operations.

(a) The first project is a 300,000 Technical Cooperation Programme project aimed at coordinating emergency operations in the agricultural sector and providing farm inputs

The Board of Auditors has audited the operations of the United Nations Office for Project Services.

Project Profile teams have introduced new registration tools and trained staff in 30 country operations, with another 20 operations targeted for implementation during the rest of 2005.

The cervical cancer screening and treatment project began operations in health facilities in 2000. These have included

121. The Foundations of Peace Project is providing policy recommendations and guidelines for future international peace operations.

(vi) Aid project and joint aid operations for those affected by the war in Bosnia coordination with UNHCR

However, the new Operations Management System proposed under UNHCR apos s change management project, Project Delphi, will both sharpen the focus of the country operations plans and set them within the framework of integrated objectives for the wider operation(s) to which they contribute.

177. UNU and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations are developing jointly the UNU project on the Foundations of Peace.

The secretariat continued to provide technical cooperation through project activities under (a) the Norway funded project on assessment of trade facilitation needs and priorities (Project INT 0T 2CS) (b) the Sweden funded project on the establishment of trade facilitation platforms (Project INT 0T 3BJ) and (c) the Islamic Development Bank funded project on international multimodal transport operations in the ECO region (Project RAS 0T 1BR).

The new registration database application developed by Project Profile has so far been installed in 18 operations throughout the continent.

9. With respect to project and operations management, a number of observations pertaining to improved accountability recurred with some regularity.

About 90 per cent of UNDCP operations are funded from extrabudgetary sources, and so significant efforts go into project evaluations.

Three country operations, in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Bolivia, were audited and found generally to be operating well, with improvements on planning and project management suggested for the operations in Afghanistan and Bolivia.

The WWB project will establish a set of norms for operations and for linking up microfinance institutions on a regional basis.

UNIS has been working consistently through the year to project the increasing importance of the United Nations human rights field operations.

The current concept distinguishes between the following components of the biennial budget the Fund budget, including headquarters, field operations and project activities and the programme support cost budget, including headquarters and field operations.

UNICEF notes however that the Department of Safety and Security is managing a project to consolidate crisis management within the United Nations system and that the operations centre will participate fully in that project.

The activities are carried out by the Project Management and the Extrabudgetary Resource Mobilization Units of the Programme Planning and Operations Division.

UNODC started the Container Control Pilot Programme in October 2004, when project operations began in the first pilot port, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The purpose of ALFLEX project was to develop design and production technology for a craft during low altitude flights and landing operations.

Consideration is to be given to measures to speed up approval and start up of project operations and, in particular, to procurement.

This ensures an official reporting procedure that complements the regular contacts between project officers and other staff members involved in operations and the donors' authorities at all stages of the operations from design until evaluation.

The purpose of the ALFLEX project was to develop design and production technology for a craft during low altitude flights and landing operations.

(d) A project on African capacities to undertake peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations, in collaboration with the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa

This wide dissemination, in order to inform citizens about the actual operations of government and to relate those operations to the difference that government made on a daily basis, was a primary objective of the Project.

b Comprising the Peace Implementation Programme, European Gaza Hospital project, move of Agency headquarters to the area of operations, and expanded programme of assistance.

The total resource allocation of 162,298,000 for the biennium 1998 1999 will be distributed as follows headquarters 18,558,300 field operations 16,554,900 and project activities 127,184,800.

In March 1998, an Operations Management Systems (OMS) Project Board and an IT Steering Committee were established to strengthen the IT function within the organization.

The new budget concepts utilizes the budget categories introduced in section I under the programme support arrangement and differentiates between the following core activities, including headquarters and field operations programme support activities, including headquarters and field operations and project activities.

The revised budget is presented below for headquarters, field operations and project activities, including the Fund budget and the programme support cost budget. SUPPORT COST BUDGET

Of major importance are the attempts that have been made towards harmonization of operations in a number of areas that are critical for smooth and effective cofinancing, such as procurement and disbursement modalities, joint project design and appraisal and project evaluation.

In another area with implications for field operations, the first phase of a comprehensive cash management project has been implemented, namely, the automation of the disbursement functions.

In order to achieve the projected objectives over the next biennium, UNODC will require substantial funding and continued focus to strengthen field operations and project delivery capacity.

(a) Comprehensive management of complex, large scale project operations for delivery to clients in low income countries in crisis, including a range of engineering and infrastructure projects

It encompassed the lifetime of every project, starting with the feasibility study and including the preliminary and detailed design, development, implementation, integration, testing, operations, maintenance and upgrading.

23. The United Nations University and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the Secretariat are developing jointly the United Nations University s project on The foundations of peace .