Administrative and financial matters. Programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003. Proposed programme budget of the Convention. Note by the Executive Secretary. Revised work programme and resource requirements.
This document contains revised summary work programmes and resource needs for each subprogramme of the secretariat prepared at the request of the SBI at its fourteenth session (see FCCC/SBI/2001/9, para. 42). Assuming that the draft decisions before COP 7 will be adopted, the document provides descriptions of responsibilities, expected results, post requirements, estimates of core budget costs, as well as activities for which funding will be sought through the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities. It also contains contingency estimates for the CDM "prompt start" and conference servicing. The proposed programme structure is annexed to this note. The document is organized into sections and subsections corresponding to the programmes and subprogrammes in the proposed structure of the secretariat. The information is presented in a self-explanatory template format. This note should be read in conjunction with document FCCC/SBI/2001/17 containing information on the staffing and costs for the 2002-2003 programme budget and document FCCC/SBI/2001/17/Add.2 quantifying resources to be sought through the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities