| 2005/13 The Executive Board 1. Takes note of the report of the Executive Director on the quinquennial review of the UNFPA system for the allocation of resources to country programmes (DP/FPA/2005/6); 2. Reaffirms the basic principles of the resource allocation system as contained in the report of the Executive Director (DP/FPA/2005/6); 3. Approves the approach, effective January 2005, for resource allocation contained therein, including the mainstreaming of the countries with economies in transition, synchronizing the resource allocation system cycle with the multi-year funding framework cycle, and amending the indicators and their threshold levels towards meeting the goals of the ICPD, ICPD+5 targets and the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration; 4. Endorses the procedure for categorizing countries into Groups A, B and C, as outlined in the present report; 5. Approves the relative share of resources presented in table 4 of the present report (DP/FPA/2005/6); 6. Recognizes the efforts of UNFPA to further increase the share of resources to group A countries and encourages the Executive Director to pursue ways and means to further increase resources to this group; 7. Requests the Executive Director to indicate in the annual reports the share of regular resources to group A countries as well as to state the share of regular resources allocated to the least developed countries and low-income countries; 8. Recommends that the distribution of resources to individual countries, and particularly to those changing category, be made in a flexible manner, taking into account the need to ensure that the gains already made are not compromised; and 9. Requests the Executive Director to undertake, as needed, in close consultation with all countries concerned, a further review of the system for resource allocation in late 2007, in the context of any forthcoming integration of planning, funding and budget tools. 28 January 2005 |