C H A R T S

UNFPA Assistance by Major Function

UNFPA Assistance by Executing Agency

UNFPA Assistance by Geographical Region

UNFPA Assistance by Country/Intercountry Category

Country Activities by Group

Pledges and Contributions
Regular income in 1998 totalled $277.0 million**, a decrease of 5.3 per cent compared to the 1997 income of $292.5 million.

Pledges to UNFPA's general resources in 1998 totalled $269.2 million, $18.1 million less than in 1997, a decrease of 6.3 per cent. At year's end, cumulative pledges through 1998 totalled about $4.5 billion from a cumulative total of 172 donors.

The number of donors in 1998 totalled 93. An additional $32.3 million was provided through multi-bilateral co-financing arrangements. Total income in 1998 (provisional) was $309.3 million, com-pared to $322.7 in 1997.

Expenditures
Total (provisional) programmable resources for 1998 were $305.1 million, compared to $306.8 million in 1997.

Project expenditures in 1998 totalled $216.6 million, as com-pared to $214.4 million in 1997. The 1998 figure includes $174.7 million for country programmes, compared to $175.0 million in 1997; and $41.9 million for intercountry (regional and inter-regional) programmes, compared to $39.4 million for 1997.

Technical support services under the successor support cost arrangements approved by the Governing Council in decision 91/37 were $22.3 million. Administrative and operational ser-vices (AOS) costs amounted to $9.1 million.

The resource utilization rate (expenditures divided by pro-grammable resources, as approved by the Governing Council in decision 89/46 B) was provisionally 102 per cent in 1998 com-pared to 95 per cent in 1997.

For expenditures in 1998 by executing agency, by geogra-phical area and by country category, see data on pages 7 and 8.

Country Categories
Executive Board decision 96/15 endorsed the procedure for allocating resources according to categorization of countries into groups and approved the relative shares of resources to groups as follows: Group A, 67-69 per cent; Group B, 22-24 per cent; Group C, 5-7 per cent; countries with economies in transition, on a temporary basis, 3-4 per cent; and other countries and territories, 0.5 per cent.

The breakdown of resources expended for country pro-grammes and projects in 1998, by group, is as follows: Group A, 62.5 per cent; Group B, 27.4 per cent; Group C, 3.2 per cent; countries with economies in transition, 4.8 per cent; and other countries and territories, 2.1 per cent.

Total expenditures in 1998 to Group A countries amounted to $109.3 million, compared to $106.0 million in expenditures in 1997.

Intercountry Activities
Expenditures for intercountry activities (regional and interre-gional) totalled $41.9 million in 1998, compared to $39.4 million in 1997.
By category of activity, these expenditures were: regional, $15.1 million in 1998, compared to $13.3 million in 1997; interregional, $26.8 million in 1998, compared to $26.1 million in 1997.

Intercountry programmes accounted for 19.3 per cent of 1998 total project expenditures, compared to 18.4 per cent in 1997.

Country Population Assessments
In 1998, Country Population Assessments (CPAs) were com-pleted in four countries — Benin, Burundi, Madagascar and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Personnel
As of 1 January 1998, the total number of authorized budget posts numbered 972, comprising 350 Professional (including 156 national programme officers) and 622 General Service staff. These include 103 Professional and 135 General Service posts at headquarters,
2 Professional and 2 General Service posts in Geneva and 245 Professional and 485 local General Service posts in the field.

The percentage of women on UNFPA's Professional staff at headquarters and in the field was 47 per cent in 1998, one of the highest percentages among United Nations agencies and organizations. Moreover, 7 of the 11 members of the Fund's Executive Committee are women.