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Viewing cable 08PARISFR2007, BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES AT UNESCO'S AUTUMN 2008

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08PARISFR2007 2008-11-03 09:35 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Mission UNESCO
R 030935Z NOV 08
FM UNESCO PARIS FR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC
INFO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA
UNCLAS PARIS FR 002007 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR IO/UNESCO AND IO/MPR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNESCO AORC
SUBJECT: BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES AT UNESCO'S AUTUMN 2008 
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING 
 
1. Summary:  UNESCO's Executive Board at its autumn 2008 Executive 
Board meeting (September 30-October 21) set in motion the process of 
preparing the program and budget for the 2010-2012 biennium. In this 
regard, the Board merely took note of the Director General's plea 
for a Zero Real Growth (ZRG) budget without endorsing it. The Board 
also struggled to agree on program priorities in the next biennium. 
While there was general agreement on the main goals (e.g., EFA), 
member states often seemed more interested in defending pet programs 
than in focusing UNESCO's resources to achieve a limited number of 
measurable results. 
 
2. Summary continued:  Member states also spent much time discussing 
UNESCO's steps to implement UN reform and the implementation of 
Triennial Policy Compliance Report.  These deliberations notably led 
to an extended discussion of UNESCO's cost recovery policy on 
extra-budgetary contributions.  Germany succeeded in obtaining 
passage of a decision that invites the Director-General to develop 
guidelines for cost recovery policy that are based on a well-defined 
support cost measurement methodology, so that UNESCO's core budget 
does not end up subsidizing programs that are funded through 
extra-budgetary contributions. 
 
3. Summary continued:  The Board also spent time trying to deal with 
the implications of reports by the Organization's External Auditor, 
France's Cour des Comptes.  Member states took the occasion to 
follow up the Auditor's critical report at the spring 2008 Board on 
the Organization's publication policy. They expressed disappointment 
that the Director-General's new publication policy does not include 
a distribution plan and invited the Director-General to present a 
revised publication and distribution plan at the next Board session. 
 Member states were also outraged by the Auditor's report on the 
Foresight office which indicated the Organization had ignored poor 
performance by the office director over a period of many years. 
Speaking to members in private session, the Director-General 
expressed frustration with the French and UN personnel procedures 
that must be followed in this case.  The office director, he 
insisted, is entitled to due process. Any premature effort to 
terminate him for poor performance would be overturned by the 
International Labor Organization's Tribunal.   The Director-General 
assured member-states that he would have the Internal Oversight 
Service thoroughly investigate the Foresight office's financial 
dealings, and that he would have the office director's supervisor 
include the Auditor's findings in a performance report which would 
conclude with a finding of poor performance. Such a report could 
eventually become the basis for disciplinary action, once the 
director has had a chance to challenge the facts in it.  End 
Summary. 
 
 
 
Program and Budget of the 2010-2012 Biennium 
 
4. UNESCO's autumn 2008 Executive Board set in motion preparation of 
the Organization's budget for the 2010-2012 biennium.  Member states 
adopted decisions determining the assumptions that the Secretariat 
will use in drafting the next program and budget (C/5). This draft 
will be submitted to the Executive Board at its April 2009 session 
and ultimately approved in its final form at the October 2009 
General Conference.  (Comment:  Four different scenarios were 
produced during the last budget and program cycle because of 
disagreements on the budget level.  Only one scenario will be 
produced for the next C/5.) 
 
Budget Ceiling 
 
5. Member states' first task was determining the overall budget 
ceiling which the Director-General should use for the draft 35 C/5. 
Director-General Matsuura argued passionately that he must be 
allowed to prepare a ZRG budget, which he calculated requires a $40 
million increase over the $631 million ceiling in the current 
biennium.  Matsuura maintained that the Organization would have to 
cut services, if members do not give it a budget that keeps pace 
with inflation. 
 
6. Member states reacted cautiously to the Director-General's 
appeal. A few (e.g., Brazil and South Africa) said they favored 
increasing the budget above the ZRG level, but they did not press 
their point of view strongly. In private discussions with the U.S. 
delegation, many states (e.g., Norway and Germany) said they favored 
ZRG, but did not believe we should assure the Director-General of 
such a funding level at this session of the Board.  They thought we 
should leave the pressure on the Director-General to continue to 
find places where money could be saved.  They cited central services 
and publications as areas where further cuts could be made. In 
general, the states (Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the UK) which argued 
two years ago during preparation of the Organization's current 
budget that UNESCO should be kept on a Zero Nominal Growth budget 
took the same view this time.  The U.S. delegation made clear that 
with the U.S. election only weeks away the U.S. was in simply no 
position to make a commitment to ZRG or any other budget level.  In 
the end, there was relatively little discussion of the budget level 
in the Board's public sessions.  Member states agreed to "take note 
of" but not "welcome" the Director-General's proposal to prepare a 
$671 million ZRG budget.  The Director-General is expected to 
present a draft budget in April calculated at the $671 million 
level, but members states are not committed to supporting that 
figure. 
 
Establishing Priorities 
 
7. Member states devoted much time to debating the priorities that 
should guide the Organization's work in the next biennium.  An 
18-member drafting group (U.S., Norway, France, Lithuania, Russia, 
Bulgaria, Japan, Malaysia, India, Senegal, Madagascar, South Africa, 
Argentina, Brazil, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Algeria) put 
together the decision that was finally adopted on this topic.  Its 
deliberations were difficult, however. The drafting group's 
Norwegian chair initially ran into resistance when he stated the 
group's job was to help the Director-General understand where member 
states wanted him to focus his efforts.  Several states - most 
notably Brazil - argued we could not even talk about priorities, 
arguing that these had already been set in the Organization's 
Medium-Term Strategy(C/4) and could not be reconsidered by the 
drafting group. Brazil also maintained that Member States could not 
decide the programs on which the Organization should focus, because 
the Secretariat had provided too little information in its report on 
the execution of the current program (Item 180 EX/4).  Many Member 
States agreed with this point and in the Joint Session of the 
Programme and External Affairs Commission and the Finance and 
Administrative Commission a decision was adopted that invited the 
Director-General improve the assessment of key results using the 
performance indicators identified in the current program and budget 
(34 C/5). 
 
8. As the drafting group's discussions continued it became obvious 
that some developing countries feared developed countries were going 
to try to eliminate pet programs in the name of greater focus.  For 
example, Morocco passionately defended the philosophy program in the 
Social and Human Sciences sector when one delegation suggested it 
might no longer be relevant.  Gradually, however, over several days 
of discussion the drafting group did come to agreement on several 
areas in each of the Organization's five sectors on which the 
Director-General should place special emphasis.  The drafting group 
plans to reconvene sometime after the draft C/5 is distributed to 
Member States in early March to review the document to see whether 
the suggestions of the drafting group have in fact been incorporated 
in the draft C/5. 
 
UN Reform and Implementation of the TCPR 
 
9. European nations pressed the Secretariat repeatedly to explain 
what it was doing to implement the UN reform program, the "One UN" 
effort, and, in particular, the conclusions of the Triennial 
Comprehensive Policy Review (TCPR). The Finance and Administrative 
Commission notably adopted a decision that recalled the 2007 TCPR 
resolution's call for improved cooperation among UN agencies and 
requested the Director-General to "take all necessary measures to 
align UNESCO's decentralization system with the requirements of the 
United Nations reform." 
 
Extra-budgetary Contributions and Cost Recovery Policy 
 
10. Germany's effort to obtain passage of a decision on cost 
recovery policy with regard to projects financed through 
extra-budgetary resources touched off a broad debate on the role of 
extra-budgetary money in financing UNESCO.  The German effort was 
motivated by the concern expressed in UN General Assembly Resolution 
62/208 and the 2007 TCPR that ". . . core resources [of UN agencies] 
not subsidize the projects undertaken through non-core/supplementary 
/extra-budgetary funding." Several states expressed concern that 
UNESCO is becoming too heavily dependent on extra-budgetary funds 
and tried to add a paragraph to Germany's draft decision that would 
have stressed the need for the Organization's work to be funded 
primarily through the regular budget.  (N.B., In the current 
biennium, extra-budgetary contributions to UNESCO are expected to 
almost equal the amount the Organization receives through assessed 
contributions.) The U.S. delegation resisted the addition of 
language to the draft decision that would have essentially called on 
Member States to agree to a higher level of assessed contributions 
and, instead, obtained agreement that the decision would reaffirm 
"that the regular budget should continue to be the bedrock of 
financing the core mandate." 
 
11. The most heated discussion on cost recovery pitted Germany, keen 
to ensure that donors of extra-budgetary funds paid the full costs 
of administering their programs, against Italy, a major 
extra-budgetary donor that was determined to ensure it did not pay 
more than necessary.  The Italians, in particular, questioned 
UNESCO's practice of imposing a 13 percent Project Support Cost 
charge on all extra-budgetary funds, saying they were happy to pay 
the real costs of their programs but they were disturbed by the 
Secretariat's inability to itemize clearly what these costs really 
are.  After much negotiation between Germany and Italy, the Board 
finally adopted a decision that had the following to say on this 
important point:  "Invites the Director-General to further develop 
the 'guidelines on the cost recovery policy and budgetary aspects of 
extra-budgetary projects' based on a well-defined support cost 
measurement methodology, including clear identification and 
definition of costs, so that identifiable elements covered by 
percentage-based support-cost charges are charged as appropriate as 
direct costs to the project6s and the program support costs standard 
rate is adjusted accordingly and direct costs and indirect variable 
costs are not charged twice." 
 
12. Many states also questioned Secretariat representatives about 
the so-called "Additional Program." This is a list of programs and 
projects assembled by the Secretariat for which there are 
insufficient funds in the regular budget but for which the 
Secretariat is soliciting extra-budgetary contributions.  Although 
Member States have pledged $120 million for programs and projects 
contained in the Additional Program, the Secretariat faced many 
skeptical questions about the extent to which activities conducted 
as part of the Additional Program are coherent with the aims of the 
current program and budget.  In the end, a paragraph was added to 
the Germans' draft decision that "invites the Director-General to 
review the proposed Additional Program in order to achieve further 
concentration on highest strategic priorities based on realistic 
delivery capacity and better alignment both with UNESCO's strategic 
program objectives and priorities and with the beneficiary 
countries' needs and priorities." 
 
 
Publications 
 
13. Board members were not satisfied with the Secretariat's 
follow-up to the report on the Organization's publications policy 
which was presented by the External Auditor to the spring 2008 
session of the Board.  While the Director-General issued a policy 
directive in June 2008 that better defines the procedures the 
Organization's manager's must follow if they wish to have something 
published, Member States were disappointed that the Director-General 
has apparently done nothing to reform the way UNESCO publications 
are distributed, and they were not sympathetic to the 
Director-General's proposal that the Secretariat be given seven new 
positions to administer the new publications policy.  The decision 
eventually adopted on this issue regrets the lack of a distribution 
plan, requests the IOS to evaluate the skills of existing staff, and 
directs the Director-General to present a revised publications and 
distribution policy to the Board at its next session. 
 
Foresight 
 
14. Member States were upset by a scathing report by the External 
Auditor on the Foresight office.  The report took office director 
Jerome Binde', a French national, to task for having been unable to 
complete in the 2002-2005 period the World Report "Towards Knowledge 
Societies" despite a sizeable budget and for relying far too heavily 
on contributors resident in France.  The Auditor also sharply 
criticized Binde's practice of not filling two regular positions in 
his office and instead having the functions done by contractors in a 
manner which appeared to be an abuse of the Organization's 
contracting policies. Both Member States and the Director-General, 
however, were challenged to figure out a way of dealing with the 
situation.  Faced with sentiment from Member States that Binde' 
should be fired, the Director-General said in private session that 
he could not do that straightaway.  Under UN rules, Binde' is 
entitled to due process, or the ILO Tribunal can order UNESCO to 
take him back.  The Director-General said he would do two things: 
first, he would ask the Internal Oversight Service to investigate 
the financial dealings of the office, especially its contracting 
arrangements, to see if there had been any violation of the 
Organization's policies; and, second, he would ask the Binde's 
supervisor to prepare a performance report on Binde' that mentions 
the criticisms of the External Auditor. Once Binde' has had a chance 
to challenge those criticisms, the Organization can move against him 
for documented poor performance.  (Note: Speaking privately to DCM, 
the Director-General's chief of staff, expressed great frustration 
with the situation.  She said she had really wanted to suspend 
Binde', but had been unable to do so because Binde' had gone out on 
sick leave.  Under relevant labor regulations, an employee cannot be 
disciplined while on sick leave.  End Note.)  Faced with the 
Director-General's explanation, member states adopted a decision 
that notes the lack of adequate internal controls in the 
Organization and asks the Director-General to report on what 
measures have been taken in its next session. 
 
15. Comment:  The Foresight situation puts the Director-General in a 
very difficult spot and illustrates the management problems that 
remain at UNESCO. Binde's poor performance was an open secret among 
delegations for many years and yet it was effectively ignored.  The 
director-General presumably was reluctant to offend UNESCO's French 
hosts by disciplining one of their nationals.  The fact that the 
French External Auditor has found fault with Binde has changed the 
situation and made it impossible for France to protect its citizen 
anymore.  Now the Director-General is under great pressure to take 
disciplinary action when his staff have not laid the groundwork for 
doing so. If he cannot discipline Binde' soon, he risks looking 
impotent.  This is particularly bad, as he approaches his last year 
in office with a staff that has always tended to be insubordinate. 
 
OLIVER