Second performance report: 1998-1999 biennium programme budget

The report examines the expenditures and obligations recorded during the first 20 months of the biennium 1998-1999 (January 1998-August 1999), and makes a forecast of the requirements for the last four months of the biennium (September -December 1999). In preparing the forecast a thorough review has been made on the requirements up to the end of the year on the basis of planned activities as well as the trends of expenditures over the first 20 months of the biennium. It was on the basis of the flexibility that was granted to program managers in the allotments issued on 28 April 1999 that reviews were done. It is the outcome of these reviews, therefore, that redeployment of resources were made among the various objects of expenditures as described in the report.