EXECUTIVE BOARD 128th Session Provisional agenda item 4.12
EB128/15 Add.1 16 December 2010
Report on financial and administrative implications for the Secretariat of resolutions proposed for adoption by the Executive Board or Health Assembly
1. Resolution Eradication of dracunculiasis 2. Linkage to programme budget Strategic objective: 1. To reduce the health, social and economic burden of communicable diseases. Organization-wide expected result:
1.3 Effective coordination and support provided to Member States in order to provide access for all populations to interventions for the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases, including zoonotic diseases. (Briefly indicate the linkage with expected results, indicators, targets, baseline)
The resolution will provide the framework for increasing the number of countries and territories certified for eradication of dracunculiasis from 187 in 2010 to 193 by 2013. 3. Budgetary implications (a) Total estimated cost for implementation over the life-cycle of the Secretariat’s activities requested in the resolution (estimated to the nearest US$ 10 000, including staff and activities). US$ 30 million over the envisaged life-cycle of this resolution of five years (2011–2015). (b) Estimated cost for the biennium 2010–2011 (estimated to the nearest US$ 10 000 including staff and activities, and indicating at which levels of the Organization the costs will be incurred, identifying specific regions where relevant) US$ 12 740 000. The costs will be incurred at headquarters, the regional offices for Africa and for the Eastern Mediterranean and country offices. (c) Is the estimated cost noted in (b), included within the existing approved Programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011? Yes. 4. Financial implications How will the estimated cost noted in 3(b) be financed (indicate potential sources of funds)? Existing extrabudgetary sources.
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5. Administrative implications (a) Implementation locales (indicate the levels of the Organization at which the work will be undertaken, identifying specific regions where relevant). Headquarters, the regional offices for Africa and for the Eastern Mediterranean and countries therein. (b) Can the resolution be implemented by existing staff? If not, please specify in (c) below. Yes. (c) Additional staffing requirements (indicate additional required staff – full-time equivalents – by levels of the Organization, identifying specific regions where relevant and noting necessary skills profile). None. (d) Time frames (indicate broad time frames for implementation of activities). 2011–2015.
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