Hospitals & Asylums

 

 

In the United Nations Assembly

 

Agency Revenue Total 2017-2025 HA-14-8-24, HA-20-8-24, HA-31-8-24

 

Codified with Reference to Agency Budget Documents in Part 1 UN Agency Revenue Treaty HA-16-9-24

 

By Anthony J. Sanders

 

Total revenues of the 34 UN System agencies are estimated at $45.6 billion (2025), 2 percent more than $44.7 billion (2024), but -7.5 percent less than the  high of $49.3 billion (2022).  The United Nations has averaged 2.0 percent annual inflation 2018-25 and must strive to sustain 3 percent inflation for services.  A total of 34 UN system agency budgets have been reviewed 2017-2025 for the vote of approval of the UN Assembly.  United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination, Revenues by Source 2017-2020 listed 40 agencies, before they ceased work. Budgetary and financial situation of the organizations of the United Nations system A/77/507 (2022) listed 45 agencies.  UNCTAD was neglected by both formulations and is now included. 

 

13 agencies are removed from the UN system total to pursue NGO status and prevent duplicate payments.  To produce an exact revenue total, it will be necessary to subtract the amount of interagency receipts from the total, in unnumbered rows 35 and 36.  This is however only a third draft by an external auditor trying to legislate an accurate accounting of the UN Agencies by source under Articles 57 and 63 and NGO licensed ODA in Article 71 of the Statement of the United Nations (SUN).

 

The word ‘biennium’ must be amended to ‘year’ in Rule 157 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly and ‘biennium’ and ‘period’ to ‘year’ in Regulation 2.3 of the Financial Rules and Regulations of the United Nations (2013).  Annual reporting must replace use of the Biennium whereas financial statements shall be presented at least annually pursuant to Rule 66 of the International Public Sector Standards Board Handbook of International Public Sector Accounting 2022 Edition Vol. I.  It is necessary that the rules are amended to clearly indicate the budget period is one year.   

 

The Financial Rules and Regulations of the United Nations (2013) Regulation 2.2 requires, the proposed programme budget shall cover income and expenditures (and surplus/deficit)for the budget period to which it relates and shall be presented in United States dollars. Rule 102.2 actually requires a detailed statement, for the purpose of comparison, of resources (revenues), expenditures, deficit/surplus, for the previous and current budget year, alongside the resource estimates for the forthcoming budget year.  Minimally, right interpretation of Regulation 102.2 requires a three-year projection of resources and expenditures to exact 3 percent inflation for services. 

 

Regulation 5.1 explains the appropriations voted by the Assembly shall constitute an authorization to the Secretary to incur commitments and make payments for the purposes for which the appropriations were voted and up to the amounts so voted.  To enable the President of the Assembly to produce an annual UN System Budget for the Secretary, UN Agencies are hereby obligated to report to the Assembly President the legislation and tabulation of an actual annual statement of revenues, expenditures, surplus/deficit, dating from their creation, with emphasis on prior, current, and next year, and interest in sustaining 3 percent inflation for services beyond 2030 and into the future.

 

Agency Revenue Total 2017-2025

(Millions of US dollars)

 

Source: Agency budgets 2017-2025, United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination, Revenues by Source 2016-2017 listed 40 agencies, whereas Total Revenues omits ILO with 39 agencies. Budgetary and financial situation of the organizations of the United Nations system A/77/507 (2022) listed 45 agencies.

 

(1) United Nations Regular Budget (UN), (2) Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), (3) Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), (4) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), (5) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), (6) International Agency for Research on Cancer, (7) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), (8) International Criminal Court (ICC), (9) International Labour Organization (ILO), (10) International Maritime Organization (IMO), (11) International Organization for Migration (IOM), (12) International Seabed Authority (ISA), (13) International Trade Center (ITC), (14) International Telecommunication Union (ITU), (15) Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), (16) UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), (17) UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), (18) UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), (19) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), (20) UN Population Fund (UNFPA), (21) Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT), (22) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), (23) UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), (24) UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), (25) UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), (26) UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), (27) UN Women (UN-WOMEN), (28) UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), (29) Universal Postal Union (UPU), (30) World Food Programme (WFP), (31) World Health Organization (WHO), (32) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), (33) World Meteorological Organization (WMO), (34) World Trade Organization (WTO).

 

CTBTO, IOM, UNHCR, UNWOMEN are held to have major deficiencies of internal control in financial reporting requiring correction, while the 10.4 percent error of the ICC is self-correcting with actual “3 percent inflation” 2024-25 to be sustained by all UN agencies, many of whom have been misled for years to try to profit with fictitious exchange rate gains and losses and donor appealing zero growth budgets.  WFP, IOM, UNHCR and UNWOMEN must stop making high budget requests, that aren’t fulfilled, and start accounting for 3 percent inflation in actual revenues and expenditures, until the 1 percent global corporate income tax provides UN agencies with a humanitarian assistance fund, and the 1 percent global individual income tax pays for a billion international poverty line benefits that increase 3 percent annually, or they legislate a winning appeal.

 

NGOs excised from the list of UN agencies added up by the Budgetary and financial situation of the organizations of the United Nations system A/77/507 (2022) by the Assembly’s vote of approval of the UN System list above are (1) International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD), (2) Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), (3) Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), (4) UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), (5) UN Convention to Combat Desertification (6) UN Development Programme (UNDP), (7) UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), (8) UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), (9) UN Office of Project Services (UNOPS), (10) UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), (11) UN System Staff College (UNSSC), (12) UN University (UNU) and (13) UN Volunteers (UNV), referred to ECOSOC to account for Official Development Assistance (ODA) as NGOs.

 

PAHO is related to the regional Organization of American States (OAS) not the global United Nations (UN).  IFAD, UNCDF, UNDP and UNV are inauditible because of their complex and forsaken responsibility to account for ODA, and a special vote is wanted to end the unaccountable, unconventional and blasphemous, development goal worship by the UN System, without undue prejudice against UNIDO. 

 

Cosponsors are not a generally accepted accounting practice in the UN System.  The duplicate revenues are inseparable using the information available.  UNAIDS must be removed from the UN System total and treated as a NGO with cosponsors – UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN WOMEN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, WB.

 

UNODC is way too intoxicated to govern unless they both remove drugs from their Office of Crime and take responsibility to ensure all food and especially drugs seized by law enforcement is promptly destroyed (securely buried – medical waste) to redress the cognitive decline in public service, since before it was discovered ephedra cures COVID.  UNRISD and UNICRI do not report their budgets and are just small think tanks affiliated with the UN. 

 

UNU and UNSSC do not account accurately, if at all, and it is a great honor to expel schools from the UN System, where academics are moot, and there is too much calculus of the arteries to not fill demands for achieving the moot development goals, for mumbling when it is time to tax individual income 1 percent to pay for an international poverty line benefit and maybe tax corporations 1 percent to pay for the UN System and humanitarian assistance, instead of the current ungainly method of financing UN credentialism, pursuant to Art. 23 of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development (1969).

 

UNICEF is a quadrennially reporting NGO who requires a vote of the Assembly to produce a treaty to levy a to be determined amount of assessed contributions from Member States, that increase 3 percent annually to lead voluntary contributors to increase annual child calculus from 0.9 percent, the old standard birth rate, -2.2 percent 2020-2021-?, to 3 percent inflation for services, annually reported with biannual UN Assembly and quadrennial ECOSOC review.  The UN System is obligated to try to keep their child, but is by all accounts nearly as deadbeat as the USA. 

 

UNCCD had to be removed because they do not adequately report their revenues and budget and are highly obligated to have the word “combat” prohibited from the Convention on Desertification pursuant to Art. 20 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1978).  UNCCD is wanted to both produce an actual budget history and prohibit combat before they may be readmitted to the UN System.  Slash piles and prescribed burns on public land and heating and cooling pumps at sea, must be prohibited to redress the primary human causes of desertification.  Solve sea-surface temperature (SST) anomaly located global warming with 15 parts per million 4-tertiary-butyl-catechol (TBC), cable the railcar(s) out of the ocean and sell them to a refinery for refurbishing, before the styrene self-combusts again in three months, finder keeper.

 

UN revenue sources are generally defined as being Assessed contributions (regular budget), Voluntary contributions – specified or unspecified, Revenues from other activities or Total.  Assessed contributions are charged to Members states.  Voluntary contributions – specified are donations that come earmarked with obligations to pay for certain projects.  Voluntary contributions – unspecified are donations without any prior obligation.  Revenues from other activities can be user fees or other miscellaneous revenue generating programs.  Total is added up in Microsoft Excel or Word Table.

 

Agency Revenue Table, by source 2017-2025

(Millions of US dollars)

 

Source: Agency budget reports referenced below, United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination, Revenues by Source 2016-2017 listed 40 agencies, whereas Total Revenues omits ILO with 39 agencies. Budgetary and financial situation of the organizations of the United Nations system A/77/507 (2022) listed 45 agencies.

 

Calculus is the mathematical study of change, over-time. Calculus is expressed in percentages, ratios as they relate to volume, often in graphs. Estimating usual rates of growth is an essential skill for analyzing, disputing and recalculating national accounts to check usury (hyper-inflation), reduce the margin of error and accurately account for a balance. Calculus of the arteries is a serious impediment to national accounting. National accounting is however so hard on the heart, errors are better corrected as a disability, rather than crime. More people die of heart disease than any other cause, and the psychological fear of death and physical plaque in the brain, causes cognitive decline. 

 

A healthy, middle-aged person, who performs the Marine Corp Physical Fitness Test (PFT) daily, is only able to perform calculus for about four hours a day, rather than eight or more hours of otherwise sedentary work on a computer, without developing chest pain due to atherosclerosis, that is likely to become infected with Staphylococcus aureus, if immunized with Pneumovax against Streptococcus pyogenes, both are treated only with doxycycline. Un-washable cardio-toxic dye, that can be temporarily neutralized by statin cholesterol reducing drugs, must be thrown away, before the cloth gets wet in the rain or laundry and contaminates the entire wash.

 

To perform sedentary work, especially calculus, the Marine Corp Physical Fitness Test (PFT) requires 50 crunches, 50 push-up and 3 mile run for 3 meals, or 2 meals if weight loss fat metabolism is desired or 2 meals if there is no time to go jogging. After two terms of Presidents, Secretary-General and one of a Treasury Secretary, who is also obese, over the mandatory retirement age of 71 ½, the books are so baked, there is considerable evidence that elderly and obese persons are mentally and physically unable to account for a government, due to cognitive decline related to calculus of arteries, for which aged and obese persons are particularly at risk of abusing and neglecting the extraordinarily time-consuming task of calculating government revenues, expenditures, surplus/deficit.

 

United Nations Charter

 

Assessment of Member States’ advances to the Working Capital Fund for 2024 and contributions to the United Nations regular budget for 2024 ST/ADM/SER.B/1067 of January 2024 provides, in Part II on page 2, for assessed contributions of $3,466 million, less Tax Equalization Fund staff assessments of $246 million for net contributions of $3,220 million (2024).  After reading of the Tax Equalization Fund’s use to refund UN staff for their national taxes, it is necessary to enter the gross assessed contribution number in the Assessed contributions and UN subtotal. Voluntary contributions and revenues from other activities reported by CEB are nowhere to be found and must be disregarded. ST/ADM/SER.B/1067 (2024), ST/ADM/SER.B/1052 (2023), ST/ADM/SER.B/1038 (2022), ST/ADM/SER.B/1023 (2021), ST/ADM/SER.B/1008 (2020), ST/ADM/SER.B/992 (2019), ST/ADM/SER.B/973 (2018), ST/ADM/SER.B/955 (2017).

 

Assessed contributions - $2,777 million (2017), $2,688 million (2018), $3,065 million (2019), $3,085 million (2020), $3,176 million (2021), $3,152 million (2022), $3,217 million (2023), $3,466 million (2024), $3,570 million (2025)

 

Average annual inflation 3.4% - -3.0% (2018), 14% (2019), 0.7% (2020), 3.0% (2021), -0.7% (2022), 2.0% (2023), 7.7% (2024), 3% (2025)

 

During 2018, borrowing from the Working Capital Fund occurred as early as May. In subsequent years, we have managed to postpone such borrowing until July in 2019, September in 2020 and November in 2021. In recent years, the deepest deficits have been $488 million in October 2018, $520 million in November 2019 and $334 million in December 2020. In 2021 and 2022, we borrowed the full amount of the Working Capital Fund towards the end of the year, but it was not necessary to use either the Special Account or the cash available in closed peacekeeping operations. However, in July 2023, as the liquidity for regular budget operations remained highly uncertain and unpredictable, we were forced to impose temporary suspension of hiring and also curtail non-post spending to ensure adequate liquidity for paying salaries and allowances to staff and other personnel as well as vendor commitments. We had to borrow from the Working Capital Fund in August and from the Special Account in October. We ended the year having exhausted the Working Capital Fund of $250 million and a major part of the Special Account.  By its decision 68/548, the Assembly decided that the State of Palestine was to be called upon to contribute towards the expenses of the Organization on the basis of the same procedure. The total contribution from these non-member States is projected to be $172,300 for 2024, reflecting no change compared with the estimates for 2023.

 

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

 

CTBTO is financed mainly through assessed contributions by Member States. Activities of the Commission may also be funded by voluntary contributions provided by States, international organizations, or other entities.  Furthermore, PTS charges a 7% Indirect Support Costs (ISC) rate, applicable to all voluntary contributions in cash of more than $10,000, to support the management of activities funded by voluntary contributions with revenues from other activities.  CTBTO does not report their financial statistics and must be obligated to produce a biennial, two year, Programme and Budget, by the Assembly, who is concerned there is a nuclear terrorist in their midst, financed mostly by the US, whose recently resigned President is accused of infuriating Putin by secretly causing more than 300,000 casualties conducting nuclear tests of the seismic code 2010-2014 and 2021-2024. 

 

Concealment of assets, worthlessly defines the civil trial of laundering of monetary instruments in the United States Code, the pre-eminent crimes in the long, long lists, being the prohibited transaction involving nuclear weapons 18USC§831 in 18USC§1961(1) and failure to report under Sec. 92 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 42USC§2122 in 18USC§1956(c)(D).  Art. 22(h-i) of the UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel (1997) corroborates the association between accounting fraud and violence, to be redressed with the conditions that must be fulfilled to validate partial studies and learning under the Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education (2023) wherefore CTBTO is highly obligated to produce a budget that adds up their assessed contributions, voluntary contributions and ISC revenue from other activities.   

 

The Permanent Mission of France makes it clear that the miserly “budget” declaration in the biannually produced Background Document by the Provisional Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization Prepared for the Conference on Facilitating the entry into force of the CTBTO is only the assessed contribution.  Background document by the Provisional Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty Organization Prepared for the Conference on Facilitating the entry into force of the CTBT-Art.XIV/2023/3 4 August 2023 provides, in Page 3 paragraph 10 the approved Budget of the Commission for 2023 amounts to $129.24 million.  Its budget in 2022 was $125,920,000. The approved Budget of the Commission for 2021 amounts to $125.10 million CTBT-Art.XIV/2021/3 (2021). The approved Budget of the Commission for 2019 amounts to $134.03 million CTBT-Art.XIV/2019/3 (2019).  The approved Budget of the Commission for 2017 amounts to $130.09 million. CTBT-Art.XIV/2017/3 (2017).  Blanks are filled out, presuming $1 million growth, in even years, after an odd-numbered conference year and three percent inflation for services 2025 and thereafter reporting the addition of assessed contributions, voluntary contributions and revenues from other activities, annually, for biennial review, preferably with an annually updated actual history, to reconcile the UN system account.

 

Assessed contributions - $130 million (2017), $131 million (2018), $134 million (2019), $135 million (2020), $125 million (2021), $126 million (2022), $129 million (2023), $130 million (2024), $134 million (2025)

 

Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)

 

The 2025 Peacekeeping budget is not yet published, although the Fifth Committee and Assembly have approved an extraordinarily low $5,590  million budget, -8 percent less than the $6,054 million total in 2024, -5 percent less $5,880 million assessed contribution, and nothing but misinformation to distinguish which artificially low number neglects the new mission to Haiti.  There is a $21 billion claim for torturous budget cuts since a high of $7.9 billion in 2017 that has languished for far more than 42 months (3 ½ years), seven years between $6 and $7 billion, before cheaping out with a $5.6 billion budget in 2025.  Against better counsel for compensation to about $10 billion (2025) for catch-up-growth to redress deficiencies caused by unlawful cuts, global armed conflict has increased dramatically, especially since 2022 after the 42 month COVID curse had run its course.  UN Peacekeeping has an obligation to protect UN Personnel and civilians in Palestine, Sudan and elsewhere (Rev. 13:5).  UN Peacekeeping deployments, authorized by the Security Council, significantly reduce civilian casualties, shorten conflicts, and help make peace agreements stick.  Designation as a UN Peacekeeping mission is the only lawful means for an armed force to cross international borders.

 

Having surrendered to US miserliness, and ignored HA, UN Peacekeeping is obligated to help ensure the US Department of Defense upholds humanitarian law and delivers humanitarian assistance to make up for the security vacuum caused by UN budget cuts.  The United States is the largest contributor to UN Peacekeeping, owing about 25 percent of the request, more than the usual scale of 22 percent.  The US interest, overcharged by UN Peacekeeping, is miserly, fickle, controlling, monopolistic and most of all unchecked by further Peacekeeping budget cuts, whose consequential deficiencies cannot be redressed by jealous, UN Security Council unauthorized and illegal military overspending by the most expensive military in the world – the USA. 

 

Presidential missions of the US Department of Defense must be limited to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, nuclear weapon modernization production terminated until compliance with the 2,200 nuclear warhead limit is reported and fugitive, foreign US military bases and deployments methodically terminated and/or authorized by the UN Security Council.  Aside from $1 billion (2025) Non-proliferation, Anti-terrorism and Demining (NAD) to sustain law and order, $8.5 billion, plus 3 percent inflation, of annual funding for the US State Department International Security Assistance, International Military Finance, International Military Education, (non-UN) Peacekeeping, International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement must be abolished and the big, mostly unused pile of cash, improperly accounted for from weapons sales to Israel and other Egyptians, converted to pay for humanitarian assistance Palestine-as-you-go 2USC§902 and 10USC§2561.     

 

Approved resources for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 A.C.5/77/32 of 30 June 2023, to be filed as 2024, amounted to a total requirement of $6,054 million comprised of $173 million staff assessment income (revenues from other activities), $5,880 million net requirement (assessed contributions) and $0.7 million voluntary contributions.  A/C.5/76/27 (2023), A/C/5/76/23 (2022), A/C.5/74/18 (2021), A/C.5/73/21 (2020), A/C.5/72/25 (2019), A/C.5/71/24 (2018), A/C.5/71/18 (2017), $5,590 million (2025) used to estimate assessed contributions, 3 percent growth for voluntary contributions and revenues from other activities.

 

Assessed contributions – $7,709 million (2017), $6,646 million (2018), $6,528 million (2019), $6,364 million (2020), $6,414 million (2021), $6,213 million (2022), $6,284 million (2023), $5,880 million (2024), $5,590 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – $4.8 million (2017), $1.2 million (2018), $1.1 million (2019), $1.0 million (2020), $1.0 million (2021), $1.0 million (2022), $0.8 million (2023) $0.7 million (2024), $0.7 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities – $180 million (2017), $156 million (2018), $161 million (2019), $154 million (2020), $163 million (2021), $165 million (2022), $169 million (2023), $173 million (2024), $178 million (2025)

 

Total - $7,893 million (2017), $6,803 million (2018), $6,691 million (2019), $6,519 million (2020), $6,579 million (2021), $6,379 million (2022), $6,453 million (2023), $6,054 million (2024), $5,769 million (2025)

 

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

 

FAO's overall programme of work is funded by assessed and voluntary contributions.   The FAO regular budget for the 2022-23 biennium is  $1,005.6 million.  Voluntary contributions are expected to reach approximately $2.25 billion in 2022-23.

 

Adjustments to the Programme of Work and Budget 2024-25 CL 174/3 October 2023 provides for a regular budgetary appropriation of $1,021.7 million for the 2024-25 biennium.  Furthermore, the Euro 1 = USD 1.12 (Resolution 4/2023) exchange rate is backward and higher than the average exchange rate reported online to be only 1.0817 in 2024.  FAO is anticipating $2,979 million in voluntary contributions for a total budget of $4,001 million for the 2024-25 biennium according to Table 2 Adjusted 2024-25 Budget proposal by chapter and funding source (USD thousand) on page 11.  CL 168/3 (2022-23) Tables 2 and 4, CL 164/3 (2020-21), CL 158/3 (2018-19), CL 153/3 (2016-17). 

 

Biennium figures divided by two. Voluntary contributions are mostly specified, revenues from other activities are not reported, as by CEB.  9.9 percent average annual inflation in voluntary contributions has offset zero growth in regular contributions for far too long for 1.5 percent regular budget growth between 2022-23 and 2024-25 bienniums to suffice.  FAO should demand 3 percent inflation in both regular and voluntary contributions to liberate food and agriculture consumers of two percent inflation, from hyperinflation in services that should not cost more or less than three percent more annually.

 

Assessed contributions – $503 million (2017), $503 million (2018), $503 million (2019), $503 million (2020), $503 million (2021), $503 million (2022), $503 million (2023), $511 million (2024), $511 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – $787 million (2017), $782 million (2018), $782 million (2019), $960 million (2020), $960 million (2021), $1,125 million (2022), $1,125 million (2023), $1,489 million (2024), $1,490 million (2025)

 

Total - $1,289 million (2017), $1,285 million (2018), $1,285 million (2019), $1,463 million (2020), $1,463 million (2021), $1,628 million (2022), $1,628 million (2023), $2,000 million (2024), $2,001 million (2025)

 

International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA)

 

The Agency’s Programme and Budget 2024-2025 GC(67)/5 of July 2023 crookedly subtracts miscellaneous income from the regular budget to determine Assessed contributions of €426 million (2023), €436 million (2024), €446 million (2025), with an assessment of only €419 million (2023), €429 million (2024), €439 million (2025) in Table 2 The Regular Budget – Summary of Income on page 11, that is corroborated by Table 1, whereby the Capital carryover is subtracted from Capital Regular Budget, that is added to the Operational Regular Budget, before the final subtraction of Miscellaneous income to determine assessment on Members, that is disregarded when it comes to actual Assessed contributions, when reading the 2024-2025 Total Resources at a Glance on page 7.  In fact, CEB described miscellaneous income as Revenue from other activities in addition to Assessed contributions, that agree with the scale of assessment.

 

This overview is particularly misleading in regards to two issues.  One, the unnecessary declaration of operational and capital unfunded liabilities although a surplus is achieved without them.  Two, the overestimation of Technical Cooperation.  Technical cooperation (TC) Program is described as Voluntary contributions – specified, but there is a considerable difference between the €96 million authorized on page 50 and €127 million (2024), €128 million (2025) on page 7, while one might find for €96 million (2024) and 3 percent inflation for services thereafter, the higher numbers corroborated by Table 3 (b) Total Resource Requirements for 2025 — By Programme and Major Programme (at 2025 Prices) on page 13. 

 

The total must be added-up whereas unfunded operational and capital requirements are unnecessary and therefore presumed to be unmet.  Expenditures are the sum of regular budget and capital minus carryover, plus reimbursable work by others, plus TC, or TC may be disregarded whereas revenues equal expenditures.  The test of financial adequacy for the IAEA is Assessed contributions plus revenue from other activities equals or exceeds total resource requirements of the Regular and Capital Budget, less carryover.  TC is included to explain volume of work of the IAEA.  GC(65)/2 (2022-23), GC(63)/2 (2020-21), GC(62)/2 (2018-19 update), GC(61)/2 (2018-19), GC(59)/2 (2016-17).

 

Assessed contributions – €362 million (2017), €373 million (2018), €378 million (2019), €387 million (2020), €389 million (2021), €396 million (2022), €419 million (2023), €429 million (2024), €439 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – specified - €91 million (2017), €98 million (2018), €97 million (2019), €102 million (2020), €102 million (2021), €118 million (2022), €118 million (2023), €127 million (2024), €128 million (2025)

 

Revenue from other activities - €3 million (2017), €3 million (2018), €3 million (2019), €4 million (2020), €4 million (2021), €3 million (2022), €7 million (2023), €7 million (2024), €7 million (2025)

 

Total - €456 million (2017), €474 million (2018), €478 million (2019), €492 million (2020), €495 million (2021), €517 million (2022), €544 million (2023), €563 million (2024), €574 million (2025)

 

1US to 1EUR referred to, the 1:1 exchange rate, is overruled by average EUR to US dollar exchange rates of 1.13 (2017), 1.18 (2018), 1.1199 (2019), 1.142 (2020), 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

 

Financial Report, Report of the External Auditor, and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 GC/66/7-Revision 1 of 9 May 2024 IARC Statement II Statement of Financial Performance for the year ended 31 December 2023 on page 18 provided for Assessed contributions and Voluntary contributions to be subtracted from total revenue to determine Revenue from other activities. GC/65/7 (2022), GC/64/9 Rev. 1q (2021), GC/63/7 (2020), GC/62/7 (2019), GC/61/5 (2018).  IARC estimates zero growth for assessed contributions, but makes no estimates for voluntary or other revenues for 2024-2025 and, after many years of stagnation, is re-estimated at 3 percent inflation for all categories 2024-25.

 

Assessed contributions - €25 million (2017), €22 million (2018), €22 million (2019), €22 million (2020), €23 million (2021), €23 million (2022), €24 million (2023), €25 million (2024), €26 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – unspecified - €11 million (2017), €16 million (2018), €15 million (2019), €15 million (2020), €14 million (2021), €25 million (2022), €20 million (2023), €21 million (2024), €21 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - €1 million (2017), €2 million (2018), €1 million (2019), €2 million (2020), €2 million (2021), €3 million (2022), €4 million (2023), €4 million (2024), €4 million (2025)

 

Total revenue - €37 million (2017), €40 million (2018), €38 million (2019), €39 million (2020), €39 million (2021) €51 million (2022), €48 million (2023), €50 million (2024), €51 million (2025)

 

EUR/US dollar exchange rate 1.13 (2017), 1.18 (2018), 1.1199 (2019), 1.142 (2020), 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

 

ICAO Budget of the Organization 2023-2024-2025 Doc. 10174 of October 2022 in Table 1 2023-2024-2025 Budget – Sources of Funds on page 9 provides for assessed contributions to be subtracted from total income to determine revenues from other activities. Doc. 10125 (2020-22), Doc. 10074 (2017-19).

 

Assessed contributions – CAD 89 million (2017), CAD 92 million (2018), CAD 96 million (2019), CAD 92 million (2020), CAD 96 million (2021), CAD 101 million (2022), CAD 104 million (2023), CAD 105 million (2024), CAD 110 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities – CAD 9 million (2017), CAD 8 million (2018), CAD 9 million (2019), CAD 11 million (2020), CAD 11 million (2021), CAD 12 million (2022), CAD 13 million (2023), CAD 13 million (2024), CAD 13 million (2025)

 

Total – CAD 98 million (2017), CAD 100 million (2018), CAD 105 million (2019), CAD 103 million (2020), CAD 107 million (2021), CAD 113 million (2022), CAD 117 million (2023), CAD 118 million (2024), CAD 123 million (2025)

 

CAD to US dollar – 0.7713 (2017), 0.7717 (2018), 0.7538 (2019), 0.7462 (2020), 0.7978 (2021), 0.7688 (2022), 0.7408 (2023), 0.7346 (2024 and 2025)

 

International Criminal Court (ICC)

 

Proposed Programme Budget for 2025 of the International Criminal Court ICC-ASP/23/INF.2 of 26 July 2024 proposes to their Assembly of State Parties, a total budget of €202,613.6 thousand, representing an increase for 2025 of approximately €19,114.4, or 10.4 per cent, over the approved budget for 2024.  This is considerably more than 3 percent inflation for services. 

 

Proposed Programme Budget for 2024 of the International Criminal Court ICC-ASP/22/INF.2 of 13 July 2023 proposed a total budget of €196,827.0 thousand, representing an increase for 2024 of approximately €27,177.8 thousand, or 16.0 per cent, over the approved budget for 2023.  This means that the 2025 budget of €203 million is only €6 million, 3 percent, more than €197 million in 2024.  The Assembly should be relieved that the Court was in error regarding 10.4 percent inflation, and is actually growing at exactly the usual rate of 3 percent for services 2024-25. 

 

The ICC must stabilize their budget request to 3 percent inflation for services as they have begun to do in 2025.  There is no need to punish the ICC for hyperinflation 2022-2024 whereas they are due catch-up growth and 4 percent average annual inflation since 2017 is only a little bit high, and may be justified in prehistoric shortfalls of 3 percent growth.  The ICC must explain to the Assembly that the Court was in error regarding 10.4 percent inflation over 2024, for which no dollar amount was provided. 

 

The ICC budget is actually growing at exactly the usual rate of 3 percent for services 2024-25 and the proposal to stabilize growth at 3 percent annually should not be denied, because trial of the common UN agency attempt to make enough money to compete with consumer price inflation, with currency exchange manipulation invariably fails, with or without exhaustive work on the probably fictitious equation for currency exchange gain/loss. 

 

Although CEB recognized assessed contributions, voluntary contributions – specified and revenues from other activities, this information is not available, although its total precisely equals expectations of what the ICC budget request was in 2020-2017.  All that is required is a total budget.  ICC-ASP/21/10 (2023), ICC-ASP/20/10 (2022), ICC-ASP/19/10 (2021), ICC-ASP/18/INF.3 (2020), ICC-ASP/17/10 (2019),

 

Total income - €150 million (2017), €144 million (2018), €151 million (2019), €151 million (2020), €149 million (2021), €162 million (2022), €176 million (2023), €197 million (2024), €203 million (2025)

 

Inflation - -4% (2018), 5% (2019), 0% (2020), -0.7% (2021), 9% (2022), 9% (2023), 12% (2024), 3% (2025)

 

Average EUR/US dollar exchange rate 1.13 (2017), 1.18 (2018), 1.1199 (2019), 1.142 (2020), 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

Total income US dollar - $170 million (2017), $170 million (2018), $170 million (2019), $172 million (2020),$176 million (2021), $171 million (2022), $191 million (2023), $213 million (2024), $220 million (2025).

Inflation - 0% (2018), 0% (2019), 1% (2020), 2% (2021), -3% (2022), 12% (2023), 12% (2024), 3% (2025).

 

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

 

IFAD disburses loans and a small amount of grants, that can theoretically be afforded with prospective interest income.  IFAD is Official Development Assistance (ODA) by definition - flows of official financing administered for the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as the main objective, and which are concessional in character with a grant element of at least 25% (using a fixed 10% rate of discount).  Due to wild fluctuations in their financing IFAD should be not be counted in the UN System budget total, like the Bretton Woods Institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are excluded, to prevent distortion of the UN System budget with their wildly fluctuating and extremely complicated, lending and development speculation.   

 

IFAD is better described as ODA independently managed, like UNDP, UNOPS and UNV, whose budgets do not conform with usual public accounting principles of revenues paying for expenditures, and are too difficult and liable to be misinterpreted and distort the UN System budget total, for development finance to be included in the UN System total.  OECD accounting for ODA, that was sustained by UNDP until around 2010, is a better explanation of the operations of these international financial institutions, than UN System inclusive financing for development, ECOSOC should try to account for with their NGO status, to cross-examine and license OECD recognized ODA.  However, the fewer than forty agencies in the UN System are difficult enough for me.  Reviewing thousands of especially complex NGO financial reports quadrennially, would seem to be too much work for me or UNDP, ECOSOC should pay accountants to add-up annual NGO ODA on the basis of reports filed every four years. 

 

IFAD at a glance 1978-2022 provides an interesting overview, that fluctuates dramatically between years and revenue estimates are not consistent with either CEB 2017-2020, who noted stable growth for the period, or the Statements in the Appendices, fluctuate dramatically between years.  Total “GOFINANCING” is estimated to have been $337 million (2018), $1,450 million (2019), $934 million (2020), $983 million (2021) and $453 million (2023).  Sources are multilateral (voluntary contributions – non-specified), bilateral (voluntary contributions – specified), NGO and Other (voluntary contributions – non-specified).  Domestic contributions (voluntary contributions – specified?) were not counted by CEB who treated the service charge $5.8 million (2022), $8.3 million (2023) as Revenues from other activities.  

 

Statement of Member’s Contribution Received in 2023 total on page 105 reports payments of $303 million cash and $110 million promissory note encashment, that theoretically adds-up to between $303 million and $413 million contributions in 2023, that is on the conservative side of the wildly fluctuating funding history 1978-2022.  Appendix K IFAD-only analysis of operating expenses by principal sources of funding reports total administrative expenses to be funded by IFAD’s regular budget, the budget of the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, carry-forward and ASMCS costs (assessed contributions) of $174 million (2022), $182 million (2023), service charge $5.8 million (2022), $8.3 million (2023), IFAD’s Climate Facility $1.2 million (2022), $1.2 million (2023), and Other sources $9.8 million (2022), $4.6 million (2023) for total operating expenses of $191 million (2022) and $196 million (2023). 

 

IFAD reports total outstanding loans as of 31 December 2023 of $8.5 billion, out of $16.5 billion approved, $12.5 billion disbursed, $4.4 billion undisbursed and $3.7 billion had been repaid on page 109 of Table 1 Statement of outstanding loans in Appendix H.  Table 2 of Appendix H provides Table 1 Summary of contributions on page 98 of Appendix G provides for a Total accumulated historical replenishment increased $600 million, 4.3 percent, from $13.9 billion in 2022 to $14.5 billion in 2023.  

 

Appendix H2 Statement of grants as at 31 December 2023 and 2022 explains that there were $104 million undisbursed grants as of 1 January 2022, $8.2 million were disbursable, -$33.4 million were disbursed, -$2.0 million cancellations, and $75.0 million were undisbursed as of 31 December 2022.  On 1 January 2023 started with $75.0 million undisbursed, $8.0 million disbursable, -$29 million disbursements, -$5.5 million cancellations, leaving $49 million undisbursed as of 31 December 2023.  This comes to approximately 10 percent grant to loan volume on an annual basis of -$29 million grant disbursement of $303 million cash contributions $182 million. 

 

International Labour Organization (ILO)

 

Financial report and audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 and Report of the External Auditor ILC.112/FIN 30 April 2024 reports on page 5 total revenues of $889 million (2021), $879 million (2022), $921 million (2023).  Expenditures $889 million (2021), $887 million (2022), $953 million (2023).  The deficit is never afforded with possibly fictitious foreign exchange gains/losses to calculation of the average CHF to US dollar conversion.  The ILO must reduce spending to less than revenues.  3 percent inflation for good service.  Labor budgets are promoted to increase 2.5 percent, 3 percent for low-income workers and 2 percent for management, annually. 

 

Financial performance, on page 6, provides Revenue in 2023 totaled $921.01 million, an increase of $42.45 million compared to a total of $878.56 million in 2022. Sources of revenues in 2023 were as follows: Assessed contributions $411 million, Voluntary contributions $402 million; ITC training service $14 million, Investment income $51 million, and other revenue $45 million, that add-up to Revenues from other activities $110 million, to be consistent with CEB.   Statement II Consolidated statement of financial performance for the year ended 31 December 2023 on page 41 corroborates total revenues of $879 million (2022), $921 million (2023).  ILC.110/FIN (2022), ILC.109/FIN/2019, ILC.108/FIN (2018)

 

ILO Programme and Budget page 9 Budget of expenditure and income for 2024-25 table provides for $853 million in contributions from member states in the 2022-23 biennium, and $880 million for the 2024-25 biennium.  Expenditures are estimated at $853 million in the 2022-23 biennium and $879 million in the 2024-25 biennium.  Otherwise, Programme and Budget have been mangled by excessive consideration of the impact of inflation, exchange rate movements and other factors, especially a statistical propensity for chained 2022-23 dollars regarding a nominal increase of US$27 million is required to retain the real level of the 2022–23 budget, representing a 3.2 per cent increase over the two-year period.  CEB slightly overcounted Assessed contributions and Voluntary contributions – specified and underestimated Revenues from other activities.  Whereas the Programme and Budget provide no guidance, 3 percent inflation is estimated for voluntary contributions, and a more usual rate of investment income (loss) is extrapolated to be $70 million in 2024 and 2025. 

 

Assessed contributions -$360 million (2017), $387 million (2018), $386 million (2019), $399 million (2020), $445 million (2021), $410 million (2022), $411 million (2023), $439 million (2024), $440 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions - $247 million (2017), $261 million (2018), $295 million (2019), $303 million (2020), $379 million (2021), $413 million (2022), $402 million (2023), $414 million (2024), $427 million (2025)

 

Revenue from other sources - $57 million (2017), $60 million (2018), $77 million (2019), $68 million (2020), $65 million (2021), $56 million (2022), $108 million (2023), $70 million (2024), $70 million (2025)

 

Total -$664 million (2017), $708 million (2018), $758 million (2019), $770 million (2020), $889 million (2021), $879 million (2022), $921 million (2023), $923 million (2024), $937 million (2025)

 

International Maritime Organization (IMO)

 

IMO on 8 December 2023 adopted a budget for the 2024-2025 biennium of £83,653,000 comprising an appropriation of £40,923,000 for 2024 and an appropriation of £42,730,000 or 2025.  This will be largely financed by contributions from Member States, of £73,153,000, comprising £35,572,000 for 2024 and £37,581,000 for 2025. 

 

International Maritime Organization Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements or the Year Ended 31 December 2023, Report of the External Auditors provides on page 24, overall, total revenue for 2023 was £68.33 million, a net improvement of £5.42 million or 8.61% from 2022 (£62.91 million).  The assessment collection rate during the years remained relatively stable with 98.26% and 97.03% of the assessed contributions for 2023 and 2022, respectively, among the highest in the United Nations system.  IMO received assessed contributions of £32.7 million (2022), £33.3 million (2023).  Donor contributions (voluntary contributions) £15.1 million (2022), £16.0 million (2023).  Commercial activity revenue grew 6.0% to £16.0 million (2022: £15.10 million), driven by publications sales rebounding to pre-pandemic levels and a record year of cafeteria sales.  Other revenue rose to £3.97 million in 2023, up from £1.04 million in 2022, primarily due to improved interest rates and consequent increases in investment income.  Total operating expenses rose 14.38% to £65.60 million in 2023, from £57.36 million in 2022.  The currency exchange loss of £2.82 million, which negated the operating surplus of £2.72 million, was the primary cause of the £0.10 million net loss in the overall financial performance.  Paragraph 108 seems to be in error, in regards to the assessed contribution for 2023 being £33.92 million, of which £33.33 million was collected, a 98.26% rate, whereas, in addition, £0.66 million was received towards the settlement of arrears from prior years, giving a total collections figure of £32.99 million, and it should be £33.99 million, wherefore arrears are disregarded. The statement of financial performance for the year ended 31 December (2023) consolidated on page 37 and Note 6.2.2 on page 76 seem to be the most reliable source of revenues, expenditures and budget information in general, ie, currency exchange gains losses, operating and net (deficit) surplus for the year.  Consolidated, higher cost estimates are the result of contributions to trust funds, page 34 (2022), page 29 (2021), page 28 (2020), page 23 (2019), page 23 (2018).  Without any Financial Reports for 2024 and 2025 other than assessed contributions and a total that may or may not be the consolidated total used, voluntary contributions and revenues from other activities are estimated at 3 percent inflation and a new total for comparison with the woefully inadequate preliminary estimate provided in the first sentence of this article.

 

Assessed contributions - £30.1 million (2017), £31.9 million (2018), £33.2 million (2019), £33.4 million (2020), £33.6 million (2021), £33.6 million (2022), £33.9 million (2023), £35.6 million (2024), £37.6 (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions - £10.6 million (2017), £14.6 million (2018), £18.0 million (2019), £18.7 million (2020), £16.8 million (2021), £19.5 million (2022), £21.4 million (2023), £22 million (2024), £22.7 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - £20.9 million (2017), £23.8 million (2018), £23.8 million (2019), £18 million (2020), £21.6 million (2021), £24.6 million (2022), £30 million (2023), £30.9 million (2024), £31.8 million (2025)

 

Total - £61.6 million (2017), £70.3 million (2018), £75 million (2019), £70.1 million (2020), £72.0 million (2021), £77.7 million (2022), £85.3 million (2023), £88.5 million (2024), £92.1 million (2025). 

 

Average GBP to US dollar exchange rate 1.289 (2017), 1.3349 (2018), 1.2772 (2019), 1.2837 (2020), 1.3757 (2021), 1.2369 (2022), 1.2439 (2023), 1.2686 (2024 and 2025)

 

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

 

IOM Programme and Budget for 2024 C/114/6* of 1 October 2023 provides: The Administrative Part of the Budget is presented at CHF 77,113,216, and reflects an increase of CHF 11,760,976 compared with the 2023 revised budget that is paid for with assessed contributions of members. The Operational Part of the Budget is based on anticipated funding and is estimated at USD 1.8 billion, which is USD 573.9 million higher than the level at the same time last year. Operational Support Income (revenue from other activities) level projected for 2024 is USD 210 million.  The administrative budget on page 68 was CHF 65.3 million (2023), CHF 77.1 million (2024).  Anticipated voluntary contributions to the operational part of the budget for 2024 on page 90 total $1,839 million, $43 million unearmarked/interest income (voluntary contributions – unspecified), and $1,796 million earmarked (voluntary contributions – specified).  IOM does not add up the budget total and it is necessary to read every annual Programme and Budget, they provide back to 2010, C/113/7 (2023), C/112/6/Rev.1 (2022), C/11/6 (2021), C/110/8 (2020), C/109/6/Rev.1 (2019), C/108/6 (2018), C/107/6/Rev.1 (2017).  Whereas there is no Programme and Budget for 2025 yet, and 2024 was a particularly expensive year, 6 percent inflation, over two years, from 2023 is projected for 2025, in all categories, except 9 percent from 2022 for unearmarked/interest income (voluntary contributions – unspecified).  2024 estimates are so high they may need to be reviewed.  An actual history of the three components of the budget/revenue total is advised to be included in future Programme and Budgets to prevent future correction for hyperinflation and irregular budgetary fluctuations from 3 percent inflation for services.

 

Average CHF to US exchange rate 1.063 (2017), 1.0225 (2018), 1.0067 (2019), 1.0665 (2020), 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025).  Assessed contributions CHF – CHF 50.7 million (2017), CHF 50.7 million (2018), CHF 52.2 million (2019), CHF 52.2 million (2020), CHF 52.2 million (2021), CHF 53.6 million (2022), CHF 65.3 million (2023), CHF 77.1 million (2024)

 

Assessed contributions USD - $54 million (2017), $52 million (2018), $53 million (2019), $56 million (2020), $57 million (2021), $56 million (2022), $73 million (2023), $87 million (2024), $77 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – specified - $1,027 million (2017), $950 million (2018), $1,005 million (2019), $837 million (2020), $886 million (2021), $1,162 million (2022), $967 million (2023), $1,796 million (2024), $1,025 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – unspecified - $7 million (2017), $7 million (2018), $7 million (2019), $22 million (2020), $27 million (2021), $27 million (2022), $1 million (2023), $43 million (2024), $29 million (2025)

 

Revenue from other activities - $80 million (2017), $87 million (2018), $96 million (2019), $123 million (2020), $128 million (2021), $136 million (2022), $160 million (2023), $210 million (2024), $170 million (2025)

 

Total - $1,168 million (2017), $1,096 million (2018), $1,161 million (2019), $1,038 million (2020), $1,098 million (2021), $1,381 million (2022), $1,201 million (2023), $2,136 million (2024), $1,301 million (2025)

 

Total inflation -6% (2018), 6% (2019), -11% (2020), 6% (2021), 26% (2022), -13% (2023), 77% (2024), -40% (2025).  2024 is total is still too high and to sustain 3 percent inflation for services, accepting prior total up to 2023, should be reduced to $1,237 million (2024).

 

International Seabed Authority (ISA)

 

Budget of the International Seabed Authority ISBA/29/C/L.2 of 17 July 2024 should be read together with the Report of the Finance Committee (ISBA/29/A/9-ISBA/29/C/20) and revised budget proposal (ISBA/29/A/3/Add.1-ISBA/29/C/11/Add.1).  The Assembly of the Authority approved the budget for the financial period 2025–2026 in the amount of $26,427,000, as proposed by the Secretary-General in document ISBA/29/A/3/Add.1-ISBA/29/C/11/Add.1.  They decided to increase the level of the Working Capital Fund by $75,000 to $825,000 to be collected over the financial periods 2025-2026 and 2027- 2028.

 

Proposed budget for the International Seabed Authority for the financial period 2025–2026 ISBA/29/A/3/Add.1 ISBA/29/C/11/Add.1 of 12 July 2024, Proposed budgetary requirements for the International Seabed Authority for the period from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026, table on page 4/6, provides for a budget total, of $22.7 million for the 2023-2024 biennium, $13.1 million (2025), $13.3 million (2026), $26.4 million for the 2025-2026 biennium.  There is no reference to revenues by source, and the ISA has embarked on an ambitious growth agenda with their Working Capital Fund. 

 

The 16 percent increase between bienniums is more than ISA corporate responsibility can afford without cleaning up the thermal pollution of the ocean that is far warmer or colder than thermal pollution of the air that receives so much attention from UNFCC.  ISA must solve sea-surface temperature (SST) anomaly located global warming with 15 parts per million 4-tertiary-butyl-catechol (TBC), cable the railcar(s) out of the ocean and sell them to a refinery for refurbishing and conversion to a more stable hydrocarbon, before the styrene self-combusts again in three months, finder keeper. 

 

ISA Report of the Finance Committee ISBA/29/A/9-ISBA/29/C/20 12 July 2024 provides January to December 2023 total amounted to $11,349,495, including assets capitalization of $62,672, against an approved budget provision of $11,230,200 of $11.35 million requested. The report indicated over-expenditure of $119,295, owing mainly to unforeseen increases in staff salaries and related costs, and is otherwise consistent with the Proposed budget for the International Seabed Authority for the financial period 2025–2026 ISBA/29/A/3/Add.1-ISBA/29/C/11/Add.1 of 12 July 2024.

 

Proposed budget for the International Seabed Authority for the financial period 2021–2022 ISBA/26/A/5/Add.1/Rev.2– ISBA/26/C/18/Add.1/Rev.2 of 21 December 2020 provides $18.2 million for the 2019-2020 biennium, $9.2 million (2021), $10.2 million (2022). CEB did not study ISA.  Proposed budget for the International Seabed Authority for the financial period 2019–2020 ISBA/24/A/5/Corr.1–ISBA/24/C/11/Corr.1 of 13 July 2018 estimated a budget of $9.5 million (2019), $8.7 million (2020).  Proposed budget for the International Seabed Authority for the financial period 2017-2018 ISBA/22/A/6–ISBA/22/C/9 of 14 June 2016 estimates the budgetary requirements of the Authority for 2017 and 2018 at $9,068,300 and $8,898,600, respectively.

 

Total – $9.1 million (2017), $8.9 million (2018), $9.5 million (2019), $8.7 million (2020), $9.2 million (2021), $10.2 million (2022), $11.3 million (2023), $11.4 million (2024), $13.1 million (2025)

 

International Trade Center (ITC)

 

Proposed programme budget for 2025 Part IV International cooperation for development Section 13 International Trade Centre Subprogramme 6 of programme 10 Trade and development A/79/6 (Sect. 13) was passed by the UN General Assembly on 12 March 2024.  The full regular budget of ITC is calculated in Swiss francs, and the ITC secretariat presents an annual budget to the General Assembly of the United Nations and a biennial budget to WTO.  The United Nations share of the ITC full regular budget is disbursed as a grant.  The United Nations grant remains at 50 per cent of the ITC full regular budget, or CHF 19,025,200. After applying an exchange rate of CHF 0.8758 to $1.00, the United States dollar equivalent is $21,723,500, this shall be subtracted from the UN System total, but included in the ITC budget description. 

 

Proposed programme budget for 2020 A/74/6 (Sect. 13) of 1 April 2019, Proposed programme budget for 2022 A/76/6 (Sect. 13) of 15 March 2021, Table 13.4 Evolution of financial resources by source of funding describes two categories of revenues for ITC full regular budget (assessed contributions) and extrabudgetary resources (revenues from other activities).  2017-2019 are in US dollars by CEB, whereas ITC does not provide any information.  CEB voluntary contribution, specified and unspecified and revenues are found by subtracting from total.

 

Assessed contributions – $36 million (2017), $36 million (2018), $37 million (2019), CHF 35.4 million (2020), CHF 37 million (2021), CHF 37 million (2022), CHF 36.3 million (2023), CHF 38.1 million (2024), CHF 38.1 (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities – $91 million (2017), $94 million (2018), $97 million (2019), CHF 86 million (2020), CHF 90 million (2021), CHF 90 million (2022), CHF 101 million (2023), CHF 92 million (2024), CHF 92 million (2025)

 

Total – $127 million (2017), $130 million (2018), $134 million (2019), CHF 122 million (2020), CHF 127 million (2021), CHF 127 million (2022), CHF 137 million (2023), CHF 130 million (2024), CHF 130 million (2025)

 

The average CHF to US exchange rate used in this work is 1.0665 (2020), 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025)

 

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

 

​​​​​​​​​​​​The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) depends on voluntary contributions.  ITU's total budgeted revenues in 2024 amount to around 165 million Swiss francs (CHF), or slightly above 190 million US dollars (USD) at current exchange rates.  These come from two principal sources: (1) Membership fees (78.6%), paid annually by national governments, participating companies and organizations, and academic institutions; (2) Cost-recovery activities (20.9%), mainly consisting of publication sales and radiocommunication filing and registration fees. Other revenues account for about 0.5% of ITU's budget in 2024.

 

ITU's membership currently encompasses 193 Member States and more than 1000 other entities, including private companies, international and regional organizations, and academic institutions. Altogether, ITU members are providing about CHF 130 million (USD 150 million), or 79% of ITU's total funding in 2024.  Member States alone account for nearly 69% of ITU's total revenue in 2024.  Non-state members contribute 9.9% of ITU's total budget in 2024. These contributors include private companies, other organizations, and academia, mainly paying through membership fees for different degrees of engagement.

 

ITU should generate nearly 21% of its total funding in 2024 as cost recovery, mainly from sales of ITU publications, satellite network filing fees, and the registration of Universal International Freephone Numbers (UIFN) and 0.5% from other revenues.  In addition, ITU cultivates partnerships with other organizations and entities that may provide voluntary contributions earmarked for specific projects, particularly in developing and least developed countries. These contributions, however, are not included in the regular ITU budget.  The ITU budget also neglects to describe the amount of revenues by source and one can only report the full cost, easy total. 

 

Annual Review of Revenues and Expenses C17/9-E of 21 February 2017, Draft Budget of the Union for 2018-2019 and Preparation of the ITU Strategic and Financial Plans for 2020-2023 TD 090 of 4 May 2017, Draft budget for 2022-2023 C21/65-E of 16 March 2021, Draft biennial budget of the Union for 2024-2025 C23/60-E 23 of May 2023 provide for full cost of CHF 161 million (2017), CHF 160 million (2018), CHF 160 million (2019), CHF 166 million (2020), CHF 165 million (2021), CHF 163 million (2022), CHF 162 million (2023), CHF 165 million (2024), CHF 164 million (2025)

 

An exchange rate of USD 1.0 = CHF 0.929 is in force as of January 2023. The average CHF to US exchange rate used in this work is 1.0163 (2017), 1.0225 (2018), 1.0067 (2019), 1.0665 (2020), 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025)

 

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

 

Draft Revised Programme and Budget of the OPCW for 2025 EC-107/DG.4 2 of July 2024 provides for a regular budget of €87.6 million for 2025.  CEB did not keep track of OPCW.  Table 3: Regular Budget Income for 2024-2025 provides, the regular budget is comprised of assessed contributions and Article IV and V reimbursements, interest and other earnings, 2021 cash surplus for 2024-2025 Programme and Budget, 2022 cash surplus for 2025 Programme and Budget, and extraordinarily 2021 cash surplus for MCIF, SAA, SAB and 2022 cash surplus for SAS, MCIF, SAA, SAB, that all seem to add up to revenues from other activities.  It must be assumed that OPCW is not concealing any voluntary contributions in their all-encompassing use of the term regular budget.  Draft Revised Programme and Budget of the OPCW for 2023 EC-101/DG.1/Rev.1 of 22 September 2022 Table 3 provides Regular Budget Income for 2022-2023.  Draft Programme and Budget of the OPWC for 2021 EC-95/DEC.3

Of 7 October 2020 appendix 8 provides Regular Budget Income for 2019-2021.

 

Assessed contributions - €65.5 million (2017), €65.5 million (2018), €67.1 million (2019), €67.1 million (2020), €67.1 million (2021), €68.4 million (2022), €69.9 million (2023), €74.8 million (2024), €81.5 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities – €2.3 million (2017), €1.87 million (2018), €2.6 million (2019), €3.9 million (2020), €4.6 million (2021), €2.1 million (2022), €6.1 million (2023), €5.7 million (2024), €6.1 million (2025)

 

Total budget - €67.8 million (2017), €67.3 million (2018), €69.7 million (2019), €71.0 million (2020), €71.7 million (2021), €70.5 million (2022), $76.0 million (2023), €80.5 million (2024), €87.6 million (2025)

 

EUR/US dollar exchange rate 1.13 (2017), 1.18 (2018), 1.1199 (2019), 1.142 (2020), 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

United Nations Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (UNAIDS)

 

2022-2026 Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework 2024-2025 Workplan and Budget Table 1. 2024-2025 biennial budget by funding source, by year, provides a stochastic projection of $210 million or $187 million Core Budget, provides for novel accounting of Core funds provide funding to the Secretariat for implementation of its functions, as well as a predictable core catalytic funding for the HIV-related work of the 11 Cosponsors, in the UN System and related NGOs.  Non-core funds represent the HIV-related funds of Cosponsors that are mobilized within their own organizations, as well as additional funds which Cosponsors and the Secretariat raise at country, regional and global levels. Cosponsors' non-core funds in the UBRAF reflect both regular and extrabudgetary resources mobilized by Cosponsors, which contribute to the achievement of UBRAF outputs, and which are or can be measured through UBRAF indicators.  Cosponsors are not a generally accepted accounting practice in the UN System.  The duplicate revenues are inseparable using the information available.  UNAIDS must be removed from the UN System total and treated as a NGO with cosponsors – UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN WOMEN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, WB.

 

Core contributions - $210 million (2024), $210 million (2025)

 

Non-core contributions - $277 million (2024), $227 million (2025)

 

Grand Total - $487 million (2024), $487 million (2025)

 

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UCCD)

 

Programme and budget for the triennium 2022–2024 ICCD/COP(15)/23/Add.1 Table 1 Total requirements by subprogramme on page 28 provides for total income of €8.2 million annually for the 2022-2024 triennium.  To sustain 3 percent inflation for services UNCCD must increase their budget 9 percent to €8.9 million (2025).  The core budget has remained relatively constant for the past decade.  Paragraph 1 ironically replaces Rule 2 with the following: The financial period shall be a biennium… unless otherwise decided by the Conference of Parties.  Paragraph 5 maintains the level of the working capital reserve at 12 per cent of the estimated annual expenditure in the Trust Fund for the Core Budget of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (1994).  The international community has recognized the importance of addressing land degradation and building resilience to drought as the basic conditions for food and water security and for achieving the objectives concerning climate change and biodiversity.

 

CEB did not keep tabs on UNCCD.  UNCCD criticized for use of “combat” word.  The Report of the United Nations Board of Auditors on the financial statements of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification for the year ended 31 December 2021 explains the key facts in US dollars with an ambiguous year.  $29.8 million revenues, $18.6 million expenditures, $11.2 million surplus, $52.7 million assets, $35.7 million liabilities, $17.0 million fund balance and reserves.  Core budget of €8.2 million sustains 74 staff.   In paragraphs 18 and 20, the Board noted that revenue from indicative and voluntary contributions amounted to $29.8 million in 2021 (in 2020: $18.0 million) representing almost 100 per cent of total revenue. Only $0.06 million related to other revenue such as interest revenue and gain on investments and was thus significantly lower than in the prior year (in 2020: $1.2 million).  UNCCD’s total expenses for 2021 ($18.6 million) increased by $3.0 million compared to the expenses for 2020 ($15.6 million).  The revenue breakdown is not immediately supported by a table.  The annual audit cannot be downloaded for the years of 2022 and 2023.  Revenue streams are not adequately studied, year after year, and UNCCD is liable to redress being virtually inauditible.

 

The Report of the United Nations Board of Auditors on the financial statements of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification for the year ended 31 December 2020 is there was a decrease of $3.77 million in total revenue compared with the revenue reported in 2019.  The indicative contributions for 2020 totaled $8.46 million from Member States, or 44.03 per cent of total revenue (2019: USD 8.66 million or 37.64 per cent).  Voluntary contributions from donors totaled $9.59 million, or 49.87 per cent (2019: $13.69 million or 59.52 per cent).  The interest revenue, which represented 2.26 per cent of total revenue, decreased to $0.43 million from USD 0.62 million reported in 2019.  The change in provision for doubtful receivable in the amount of USD 0.02 million or 0.1 per cent is related to the indicative contribution uncollected as at 31 December 2020, calculated manually based on UNCCD IPSAS policy.  The remaining revenue includes gain on investments and foreign exchange in the amount of $0.72 million or 3.75 per cent.

 

EUR/US dollar exchange rate 1.13 (2017), 1.18 (2018), 1.1199 (2019), 1.142 (2020), 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

 

The UN Capital Development Fund assists developing countries in the development of their economies by supplementing existing sources of capital assistance by means of grants, loans and guarantees, first and foremost for the least developed countries.  UNCDF is administrated by the Executive Board of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS.  UNCDF is by definition Official Development Assistance (ODA). 

 

UNCDF funding overview provides for a budget of $75.6 million with $75.5 million donations - $20.2 million foundation, $22.5 million government, $5.8 million inter-governmental agencies, $951,608 NGO, $1.6 million private sector and $24.5 million United Nations System.  The funding overview fails to provide for a year.  It might be a biennium or from the last decade. UNDCF does not provide sufficient actual history.  The budget is distributed to a long list of developing countries, without regard for contract completion over time, and by $8 million core and $75.6 million non-core revenues. 

 

To prevent significant duplicate accounting of UN System revenues and budget distorting claiming of credit by the UN for real estate development, it is held that UNDCF and two out of three of their executive board agencies, UNDP and UNOPS, be treated as NGO.

 

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

 

UNCTAD was neglected by both CEB 2017-2020 and Budgetary and financial situation of the organizations of the United Nations system A/77/507 (2022) and is now included in the UN System total, whereas it takes a governmental role in development policy, rather than financing actual projects.  Proposed programme budget for 2025 Part IV International cooperation for development Section 12 Trade and Development Programme 10 Trade and Development A/79/6 (Sect. 12) of 3 April 2024 Table 12:23 Overall: evolution of financial resources by source of funding, component and subprogramme on pages 43 and 44 provides for UNCTAD, with a regular budget and extrabudgetary resources, but does not explain whether the source of extrabudgetary revenues are voluntary contributions, wherefore, they are termed revenues from other activities, whereas UNCTAD has so many opportunities to charge fees and otherwise profit from international trade. A/77/6 (Sect. 12)(2023), A/75/6(Sect. 12)(2021), Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019 A/77/6 (Sect. 12)(2019).

 

Assessed contributions - $70.5 million (2017), $70.5 million (2018), $70.7 million (2019), $68.1 million (2020), $70.3 million (2021), $71.3 million (2022), $78.4 million (2023), $83.6 million (2024) and $83.6 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - $40.2 million (2017), $40.2 million (2018), $43.0 million (2019), $42.8 million (2020), $44.6 million (2021), $44.6 million (2022), $61.3 million (2023), $61.3 million (2024), $61.3 million (2025)

 

Total - $110.7 million (2017), $110.7 million (2018), $113.7 million (2019), $110.8 million (2020), $114.9 million (2021), $115.8 million (2022), $139.7 million (2023), $145 million (2024), $144.8 million (2025).

 

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

 

Annex I : UNEP Programme of Work and Budget for 2022-2023 Table 17(a) Total financial resource requirements by funding sources: 2020-2021 and 2022-2023 on page 31 provides for five funding sources and a -5 percent decline in funding between bienniums – Environment Fund (Voluntary contributions – unspecified), Earmarked funds (Voluntary contributions – specified), Global trust funds (+Voluntary contributions – specified), Programme support costs (Revenue from other activities) and Regular budget (Assessed contributions).  This is not up-to-date 2024-2025 and historical documents are difficult to search.  Check the contributions to UNEP by source of funding since 1973 is blank.  UNEP/EA.2/16: Proposed programme of work and budget for 2018-2019 of 10 March 2017 English is in Arabic, for a while, Table 1(b) Total human resource requirement by funding category: 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 provides.  Expected to add up country contributions by trust fund for 2024.  UNEP has no future.  For People and Planet The United Nations Environment Programme strategy for tackling climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste from 2022-2025 sells out to corporate rhetoric, that does not make the grade for 2024 and 2025.  Solved by 3 percent inflation in all revenue categories.

 

The -5 percent decline in funding between 2020-2021 and 2022-2023 bienniums is alarming whereas 3 percent inflation for services is due, despite the do-not-print to save the environment advisory.  Whether or not the economy is the enemy, UNEP must not be defeated by inflation.  Perhaps care must be taken that UNEP is not inappropriately taking bribes from developers and/or paying eco-terrorist arsons, on land and at sea, and their dedicated and growing staff of environmental scientists and engineers are extending environmental standards, in all directions, elements and populations with a human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.  Only I add, solves sea-surface temperature (SST) anomaly located global warming with 15 parts per million 4-tertiary-butyl-catechol (TBC), cables the railcar(s) out of the ocean and sells them to a refinery for refurbishing, before the styrene self-combusts again in three months, finder keeper. 

 

Assessed contributions – $58 million (2017), $58 million (2018), $58 million (2019) $24 million (2020), $24 million (2021), $24 million (2022), $24 million (2023), $25 million (2024), $26 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – unspecified – $225 million (2017), $213 million (2018), $213 million (2019), $100 million (2020), $100 million (2021), $100 million (2022), $100 million (2023), $103 million (2024), $107 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – specified – $104 million (2017), $129 million (2018), $129 million (2019), $291 million (2020), $291 million (2021), $297 million (2022), $297 million (2023), $306 million (2024), $315 million (2025)

 

Revenue from other activities – $32 million (2017), $38 million (2018), $38 million (2019), $19 million (2020), $19 million (2021), $16 million (2022), $16 million (2023), $17 million (2024), $17 million (2025)

 

Total income - $419 million (2017), $438 million (2018), $438 million (2019), $459 million (2020), $459 million (2021), $437 million (2022), $437 million (2023), $450 million (2024), $464 million (2025)

 

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

 

During the 42nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO, the 194 Member States approved a historic increase in the Organization's budget (+25%), as proposed by Director General Audrey Azoulay.  Although a receipt has not been found, it can be surmised that the United States is paying a declaratory judgment on their $750 million arrears to sustain higher spending levels without excessively disrupting expectations when the obligation is fulfilled, and voluntary contributions increased 16.6 percent between the 2020-2021 (40 C/5) and 2022-2023 (41 C/5) bienniums. 

 

UNESCO Draft Programme and Budget 2024-2025 42 C/5 Rev. 24 October 2023 provides in Annex I Budget Summary: Integrated Budget Revised Draft (42/C/5) on page 217 for appropriated regular budget (assessed contributions) of $686 million, revenue generating funds/OPF, including MCA VC share (revenues from other activities) of $113 million, voluntary contributions including conventions (voluntary contributions) of $1,090 million and integrated budget (total) of $1,804 million for the biennium, $902 million, in each year of 2024 and 2025. 

 

42 C/5 Approved programme and budget 2024-2025: second biennium of the 2022-2025 quadrennium (2024) corroborates these numbers with an $84 million offsetting reduction to $1,781 million revenues for the biennium, $890.5 million per year 2024-2025 committed to sustain the addition whereas these offsets to revenues could be equally construed as expenditures.  Appendix C – Restatement of 41 C/5 Integrated Budget Framework (IBF) fails to provide relevant revenue data for 2022-2023 with their unyielding technology.  41 C/5 Approved programme and budget 2022-2025: first biennium 2022-2023 Executive Summary on page 7 provides for an Approved Budget 2022-2023 (41 C/5) by source of funds for the bienniums of 2020-2021 (40 C/5) and 2022-23 (41 C/5). 

 

It would seem that CEB switched assessed contributions and voluntary contributions – specified and had a high estimate of revenues from other activities.  Whereas the UNESCO budget seems to be doing alright despite their actual historical abuse of the biennium, CEB +/- 2 percent margin of error in the total of sample year of 2020, 2017-2019 is moot and entered without prejudice to the delay of graduation from $600 million before 2016, when CEB began accounting for UN agencies, to more than $700 million in 2022, more than the 42 months allowed such pandemic school closures (Rev. 13: 5).

 

Assessed contributions – $261 million (2017), $268 million (2018), $275 million (2019), $268 million (2020), $268 million (2021), $268 million (2022), $268 million (2023), $343 million (2024), $343 million (2024)

 

Voluntary contributions - $316 million (2017), $324 million (2018), $332 million (2019), $398 million (2020), $398 million (2021), $464 million (2022), $464 million (2023), $545 million (2024), $545 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - $71 million (2017), $73 million (2018), $74 million (2019), $19.5 million (2020), $19.5 million (2021), $19 million (2022), $19 million (2023), $57 million (2024), $57 million (2025)

 

Total income – $648 million (2017), $665 million (2018), $681 million (2019), $685 million (2020), $685 million (2021), $751 million (2022), $751 million (2023), $902 million (2024), $902 million (2025)

 

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)

 

Every two years, the Executive Secretary of UNFCC proposes a programme budget for consideration by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), setting out the proposed activities and budget of the secretariat for the coming two years. Table 1 2024-2025 core budget by appropriation line on page 21 of the Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-eighth session, held in the United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 13 December 2023 FCCC/CP/2023/11/Add.2 15 march 2024 provides for Contributions from the Host Government (assessed contribution), Contributions from all Parties (voluntary contributions) and Total income in Euros €.  Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-sixth session, held in Glasgow from 31 October to 13 November 2021 FCCC/CP/2021/12/Add.2 8 March 2022 Table 1 on page 42 for 2022-2023.  Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-fourth session, held in Katowice from 2 to 15 December 2018 FCCC/CP/2018/10/Add.1 does not provide relevant financial statistics.  In review of CEB 2017-2020 UNFCC is underreporting their revenues by reporting only core revenues and is neglecting a number of revenue streams, that may or may or not be explained by various Trust Funds.  UNFCC may be as inauditable as 1.5° C increase in average global temperature by 2050, witnessed many days of the year.

 

Assessed contributions – €0.8 million (2022), €0.8 million (2023), €0.8 million (2024), €0.8 million (2025) 

 

Voluntary contributions – €31 million (2022), €30 million (2023), €37 million (2024), €36 million (2025)

 

Total income - €32 million (2022), €31 million (2023), €38 million (2024), €37 million (2025)

 

UNFCC Annual Report 2022 on pages 49 and 50, unprofessionally reports a total of $113 million in revenues and $124 million in expenditures for 2022.  Revenues are distributed $36 million core budget, $34 million clean development mechanism, $31 million supplementary, $6 million ZHF plus other, $2 million special annual contribution, $3 million participation and $1 million international transaction log, in US dollars.  This fails to distinguish assessed and voluntary contributions that must be lumped together as assessed contributions.  Clean development mechanism is voluntary contributions – specified.  Supplemental is voluntary contributions – unspecified and is added to special annual contributions (from Germany).  The rest must be added up to estimate revenues from other activities.  Annual Report 2021 and 2020 provide consistent revenue and expenditure data to be added to CEB 2017-2020, however, 2023-2025 remain a mystery.  Annual Report 2021 provides a total of $87 million in revenues - $37 million core budget, $23 million clean development mechanism, $16 million supplemental, $6 million ZHF and other, $2 million special annual contributions, $2 million participation and $1 million international transaction log.  Annual report 2020 provides a total of $78 million in revenues, $36 million core budget, $17 million clean development mechanism, $17 million supplemental, $2 million special annual contribution (from Germany), $2 million participation, $3 million conferences and recoverable costs, $1 million international transaction log. 

 

This is not entirely consistent with CEB.  The history must be derived from Annual Reports through 2022 and estimated with the help of the Reports of the Conference of Parties beginning in 2023.  UNFCC must be criticized for not producing an up-to-date budget request for the Biennium, not to confuse the minimum requirement of current year and next year to calculate inflation, with the imaginary adding up of two years, often lost, to produce a Biennium.  It can be estimated that the core budget, assessed contributions decline -3 percent in 2022-2023, increase 22.6 percent in 2024 and decrease -2.6 percent in 2025.  Voluntary contributions – specified, pertaining to the clean development mechanism has historically fluctuated and is exactly estimated on page 6 Table 1 Overview of 2024 and 2025 budgets and comparison with 2023 in the CDM two-year business and management plan 2024–2025 CDM-EB119-A06-INFO.  Voluntary contributions – unspecified – consist of $2 million participation and a fluctuating amount of supplemental trust fund revenues, that due to gross overestimation on page 21 of the Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-eighth session, held in the United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 13 December 2023 FCCC/CP/2023/11/Add.2 15 March 2024 is redone estimating 3 percent annual growth from the high $33 million (2022) base year.  Revenue from other activity, comprising ZHF and other, participation trust fund, and the international transaction log, that is reported to be in decline on page 22 of the Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-eighth session, held in the United Arab Emirates from 30 November to 13 December 2023 FCCC/CP/2023/11/Add.2 15 March 2024, is estimated to remain at $10 million annually 2023-2025.  In summary the fluctuations in the UNFCC budget are unskilled and an effort must be made to sustain 3 percent inflation for services, to prevent losing bids for 7 percent catch-up inflation.  

 

Assessed contributions - $29 million (2017), $35 million (2018), $33 million (2019), $36 million (2020), $37 million (2021), $36 million (2022), $35 million (2023), $43 million (2024), $42 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – specified - $10 million (2017), $14 million (2018), $14 million (2019), $17 million (2020), $23 million (2021), $34 million (2022), $14 million (2023), $12 million (2024), $9 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions – unspecified - $28 million (2017), $35 million (2018), $29 million (2019), $19 million (2020), $18 million (2021), $33 million (2022), $34 million (2023), $35 million (2024), $36 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - $9 million (2017), $15 million (2018), $11 million (2019), $6 million (2020), $9 million (2021), $10 million (2022), $10 million (2023), $10 million (2024), $10 million (2025)

 

Total - $76 million (2017), $99 million (2018), $87 million (2019), $78 million (2020), $87 million (2021), $113 million (2022), $93 million (2023), $100 million (2024), $97 million (2025).

 

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

 

UNFPA integrated budget, 2022-2025 DP/FPA/2021/9 of 14 June 2021 prepared for the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services proposes a total contributions estimate of $5,045.6 million, compared to estimates of $4,051.8 million and actuals of $5,059.8 for 2018-2021 quadrennium that would seem to relegate UNFPA as well as all their Executive Board agencies to be ECOSOC regulated NGOs rather than part of the UN System budget total.  CEB did not report on UNFPA financial statistics.  However, Fig. 1 reports annual contributions by regular (assessed contributions) and other (voluntary contributions – unspecified) categories 2014-2025 and it behooves the UN System to adopt UNFPA, while at the same time expelling the United Nations Development Programme and Office for Project Services.  UNFPA plans to achieve ambitious and bold commitments by 2030, namely ending unmet need for family planning, ending preventable maternal deaths and ending gender-based violence and harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation, and ultimately, to contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, that must be the last such Development Goal to distract attention from sadly neglected and overestimated from 2018, traditional international addition of economic and financial national accounts, eg. GDP, GNI, PPP, national government revenues, expenditures and deficit, and international trade, that are needed to sustain economic growth “calculus” not “contracts with the devil – development propaganda” that must be non-governmental, or private - commercial, because in this case, as UNFPA points out, development is an evil of a growing population, that depletes natural and economic resources, individually and collectively, to be prevented with family and urban planning by a neutral government.  The UN System must abort UNDP, UNOPS and UNV and adopt UNFPA to properly condemn the devil – development and get the “child calculus” right, with or without their cast-out Executive Board adversaries, whose child support is inadequate to achieve their lofty development goals reinventing statistics, for which there is not enough arterial room in a year to perform, in addition to necessary calculus, due to UN enforced devil worship, aborted by UNFPA.

 

Assessed contributions - $350 million (2017), $379 million (2018), $373 million (2019), $417 million (2020), $406 million (2021), $377 million (2022), $378 million (2023), $380 million (2024), $381 million (2025)

 

Revenue from other sources - $718 million (2017), $877 million (2018), $997 million (2019), $811 million (2020), $800 million (2021), $729 million (2022), $831 million (2023), $933 million (2024), $1,037 million (2025)

 

Total – $1,062 million (2017), $1,256 million (2018), $1,370 million (2019), $1,228 million (2020), $1,206 million (2021), $1,105 million (2022), $1,209 million (2023), $1,313 million (2024), $1,418 (2025)

 

United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT)

 

The overall resource requirements for UN-Habitat for 2025 are projected at $175.2 million, reflecting a decrease of 3.2 per cent over the re-estimated $181.0 million of 2024.  Draft work programme and budget for 2025 HSP/EB.2024/INF/4 4 March 2022 Table 11 Overview of resource requirements by source of funds (2023-2025), provides for $4.0 million Foundation non-earmarked (voluntary contributions – unspecified), $13.0 million regular budget (assessed contributions), $53 million foundation earmarked (voluntary contributions – specified), $94 million technical cooperation (+ voluntary contributions – specified) , $10 million programme support (revenues from other activities) and $175 million total budget request.  CEB also passed the million-dollar test (in thousands) 2017-2020, technical cooperation between the histories is wanted, however CEB estimates for 2020 are about 20 percent higher and must be overruled by Table 11 of the UN-HABITAT Programme and Budget for 2022 for 2020-2022.  Table 1.B Overview of resource requirements by funding category is provided by the Work programme and budget for the biennium 2016–2017 HSP/GC/25/5 22 January 2015 for 2017.  However, no documents are available online for 2018-2019.  Wherefore CEB estimates are used 2017-2019, although they are noted to slightly overestimate 2020, they actually bring down the 2017 overestimates from the old-fashioned Biennium request.  The Programme and Budget funding levels have stabilized after COVID highs, but must seek 3 percent inflation beginning in 2026 to prevent deficiency. 

 

Voluntary contributions – unspecified - $2.7 million (2017), $2.8 million (2018), $2.8 million (2019), $7.6 million (2020), $10 million (2021), $12 million (2022), $2.9 million (2023), $4.0 million (2024), $4.0 million (2025)

Assessed contributions - $13.6 million (2017), $13.9 million (2018), $14.3 million (2019), $11.6 million (2020), $12.5 million (2021), $13.3 million (2022), $12 million (2023), $13 million (2024), $13 million (2025)

Voluntary contributions – specified - $142 million (2017), $145 million (2018), $149 million (2019), $131 (2020), $195 million (2021), $219 (2022) $113 million (2023), $105 million (2024), $94 million (2025)

Revenues from other activities - $10.7 million (2017), $10.9 million (2018), $11.2 million (2019), $9.3 million (2020), $9.8 million (2021), $11.2 million (2022), $10 million (2023), $10 million (2024), $10 million 2025

Total - $169 million (2017), $173 million (2018), $177 million (2019), $147.9 million (2020), $217 million (2021), $244 million (2022), $182 million (2023), $181 million (2024), $175 million (2025)

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office (UNHCR)

 

UNHCR “underfunding” is certainly the product of not adequately declaring revenues in their Global Appeals.  You do the calculus does not a donor make, until after the math is done.  Reporting error misunderstood as non-self-incrimination regarding credible fear of actual revenues.  There is no denying that UNHCR is a core governmental function of the UN system.  Global Appeal 2024 reports as of 31 October, UNHCR’s 2023 global budget stood at $10.929 billion, with reference to the Programme budget for 2024 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in un-enlargeable, very small print, that does not download.  UNHCR programme in the United Nations proposed framework for 2025 EC/75/SC/CRP.7 6 March 2024 does not mention any budgetary revenue or expenditure statistics in their UN institutional review of their programmes.  Aside from any other ulterior motive there might be to not report actual revenues, to get away with stealing from obviously partial payments, the primary reason UNHCR is “underfunded” is that they do not have any precedence for having a system of accounting for their revenues, that was previously well-done by CEB 2017-2020 and waste a lot of time defending their partially spent budget.

 

Programme budget for 2024 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees A/AC.96/74/5 1 September 2023 provides amounting to $10,621.7 million. It also reviews the current programme budget for 2023, at 31 May 2023, of $10,799.5 million. This represents the sum of the original programme budget for 2023 of $10,211.3 million, which the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (Executive Committee) approved at its seventy-third plenary session in October 2022, an increase of $688.2 million resulting from five supplementary budgets to address exceptional humanitarian and protection needs in emergency situations, and a budget reduction of $100.0 million with respect to the operation in Iraq.  Table 1.2 on page 6 Budgets, funds available and expenditure 2013-2022 provides for a high budget request, modest funds available and underfunded expenditures, but fails to distinguish type of revenues, for follow-up.

 

Page 6 of the Global Appeal 2024 provides, against this budget (revenues), estimated funds available to UNHCR stood at $4.910 billion, or 45%, in 2023. Compared to the same period in 2022, the level of available funds is lower by $510 million. This time last year, UNHCR was 51% funded, with $5.42 billion estimated funds available.  In a similar trend, the level of fresh voluntary contributions, excluding carryover and secondary income, decreased by $1.151 billion compared to the same period last year: $548 million from public sources and $603 million from the private sector.  Proportionately, there has been a shift in the allocation of funds: flexible funding (comprising softly earmarked and unearmarked funds) has decreased from 39% to 31%, while earmarked and tightly earmarked funding has increased from 61% to 69%.  Reporting revenues is not a back-room negotiation with CEB.  UNHCR must do revenues due diligence. 

 

CEB reported total revenues of $4,227 million (2017), $4,332 million (2018), $4,441 million (2019), $4,552 million (2020).  CEB also reported voluntary contributions- non-specified, voluntary contributions – specified (earmarked), voluntary contributions – pending earmarking, assessed contributions and revenues from other activity.  UNHCR is charged with providing a historical, current and next year accounting of their agency revenues that sustains or improves upon CEB accounting categories UNHCR is rumored to abide by.

 

To get the job done it is necessary to eliminate revenue categories and just report the total from Programme budget for 2024 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees A/AC.96/74/5 1 September 2023 Table 1.2 on page 6 Budgets, funds available and expenditure 2013-2022, reports “funds available” believed to be total revenues plus carryover funds from prior year, for 2017-2022: $4,510 million (2017), $4,710 million (2018), $4,826 million (2019), $5,404 million (2020), $5,153 million (2021), $6,180 million (2022).  Corresponding expenditures are $4,083 million (2017), $4,226 million (2018), $4,415 million (2019), $4,838 million (2020), $4,918 million (2021), $5,607 million (2022).  Ridiculously high Final budget $7,963 million (2017), $8,221 million (2018), $8,636 million (2019), $9,131 million (2020), $9,248 million (2021), $10,714 million (2022).  Although there is a 25 percent margin of revenue overestimation in 2020 the other years cancel the carryover nearly exactly, corroborating CEB UNHCR revenue estimates.  2019 is the last year for which there are any reliable estimates, wherefrom 3 percent inflation is calculated to provide realistic expectations. 

 

Total $4,510 million (2017), $4,710 million (2018), $4,826 million (2019), $4,971 million (2020), $5,120 million (2021), $5,274 million (2022), $5,432 million (2023), $5,595 million (2024), $5,763 million (2025).

 

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

 

ECOSOC produced the UNICEF Integrated Budget 2018-2021 E/ICEF/2017/AB/L.4 of 13 July 2017 and Report on the midterm review of the UNICEF integrated budget, 2022–2025 E/ICEF/2024/AB/L.5 of 11 April 2024.  UNICEF has revised its integrated resource plan for 2022–2025 to consider actual income and expenditures for 2022 and 2023 and revised estimates for 2024– 2025 and does not allow for comparison with prior plan like Table 1 in the 2018-2021 Integrated Budget does 2014-2017. Within the framework of the revised plan and taking into account the projected increase in total income of 37 per cent, from $25.9 billion to $35.6 billion, UNICEF proposes increasing the planned expenditure for programmes by the same 37 per cent to $31.9 billion, as compared with the initial plan of $23.3 billion, for the four year period, that is revised based on 2022 and 2023 actual expenditures and 2024‒2025 revised estimates, but does not disclose biennial total that need to be divided by two and multiplied + and – 1.5 percent, to calculate annual information. 

 

The four-year integrated resource plans must be divided by four and multiplied by -4.5%, -1.5%, 1.5% and 4.5% to distribute 3 percent inflation for services over four years.  However, to prevent reverse inflation at the beginning o very Integrated Resource Plan it seems best to merely divide by four, until a method to provide for 3 percent inflation is devised.  This is critical because the UNICEF total has been punished for more than 42 months, three and a half years, by the number of the beast, between $6 and $7 billion.  The Integrated Resources Plans do not provide for enough inflation.  2022-25 is only 4.5 percent more than 2018-21 that is only 5.6 percent more than 2014-18.  Annual inflation for services is expected to run at 3 percent annually.  UNICEF has only grown 10.1 percent in the 11 years between 2014 and 2025, 0.9 percent annual growth is unsatisfactory.  UNICEF is highly obligated to adopt an annual method of accounting to sustain 3 percent growth in contributions.  

 

Table 1 Integrated Resource Plan provides for Voluntary Contributions – non-specified regular resources minus tax reimbursement, Voluntary contributions – specified programmed, Other income and Opening balance combined into Revenue from other activities, cost recovery is never reported by UNICEF and the opening balance and Trust Fund receipts are excluded from this report.  The revised and prior numbers are prepared for data entry. 

 

Voluntary Contributions – non-specified $4,621 million 2014-17, $4,868 million 2018-2021, $5,526 million 2022-25. Voluntary contributions – specified $18,383 million 2014-2017, $19,179 million 2018-2021, $20,044 million 2022-25.  Revenues from other activities $403 2014-17, $707 2018-21, $294 million 2022-25.

 

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

 

UNICRI was established in 1968 pursuant to Economic and Social Council Resolution 1086 B (XXXIX) of 1965, it does not report any kind of budget information in their Annual Report to ECOSOC E/CN.15/2024/9 of 7 March 2024.  CEB did not account for UNICRI.  UNICRI must be an ECOSOC NGO who doesn’t report ODA.  A Prosecutor’s Guide to Chemical and Biological Crimes seems interesting.

 

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

 

Paragraphs 1 & 2 of the UNIDO Programme and budgets 2024–2025 39^th Session of the Committee IDB.51/6–PBC.39/6 27 February 2023 explains: The regular budget is funded primarily from assessed contributions, with a limited amount provided from other sources, such as income on deposits, sales publications and governmental contributions to the regional and country offices of UNIDO. The Constitution of UNIDO provides for six per cent of the net regular budget to be used for the Regular Programme of Technical Cooperation (RPTC). The operational budget is financed mainly from support cost reimbursement income, earned through the implementation of technical cooperation activities financed from voluntary contributions. The support cost income is a reimbursement by donors to compensate UNIDO for the support services rendered. 

 

Data must be entered from Tables 1-3 in Annex B of UNIDO Programme and budgets 2024-25.  It is difficult to quantify the seeming hyperinflation in profitable reimbursements for Technical Cooperation, using their demanding expenditure equals resource requirement worksheets, rather than explaining revenues in one table, to justify fast growing profits from reimbursements for goods and services.  The lower cost of Annex B is entered 2024-25, rather than the higher request.  

  

Subtotal €170 million 2016-17, €176 million 2018-19, €179 million 2020-21, €185.6 million 2022-23, $193.2 million 2024-25 = Income €2.8 million 2016-17, €2.9 million 2018-19, 2.9 million 2020-21, €5.9 million 2022-23 €8.1 million 2024-25 + Net requirements €170 million 16-17, €173 million 2018-19, €176 million 2020-21, €179.7 million 2022-23, €185.1 million 2024-25.

 

Assessed contributions €136 million 2016-17, €137 million 2018-19, €140 million 2020-21, €141.9 million 2022-23, €149.0 million 2024-25.

 

Voluntary contributions – unspecified - €0.3 million 2016-17, €0.4 million 2018-19, €0.3 million 2020-21, €1.8 million 2022-23, €4.0 million 2024-25,

 

Voluntary contributions – specified - €34 million 2016-17, €36 million 2018-19, €36 million 2020-21, €38 million 2022-23, €36 million 2024-25.

 

Revenues from other activities - €2.5 million 2016-17, €2.5 million 2018-19, €2.5 million 2020-21, €4.1 million 2022-23, €4.1 million 2024-25

 

Total – €173 million (2016-17), €176 million 2020-21, €179.7 million 2022-23, €185.1 million 2024-25

 

EUR/US dollar exchange rate 1.13 (2017), 1.18 (2018), 1.1199 (2019), 1.142 (2020), 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

UNIDO needs to produce an updated an actual annual history of the results of their expenditure cancelling revenue total, assessed and voluntary contributions and revenues from other activities. Biennium totals must be divided by 2 and usually multiplied by + & - 1.5 percent to provide 3 percent inflation for services. 6 percent for Technical Cooperation reimbursements does not affect total growth because the net requirements are reduced by amount of revenues.

 

Conclusion 2023/7 at paragraph 11(d) of Report of the Programme and Budget Committee on the work of its thirty-ninth session (15–17 May 2023) IDB.51/11/Add.1 23 May 2023 provides for regular budget gross expenditures of €163,059,399 to be cancelled by an equal amount of assessed contributions in the amount of €157,815,529 and other income of €5,243,870. USD $170,709,058 assessed contributions and $5,672,295 other income to exactly cancel $176,381,352 in expenditures for the 2024-25 Biennium and Paragraph 96 UNIDO Programme and budgets 2024–2025 lose their argument for Annex A: Total regular budget gross expenditures of €169,844,355 reduced by an anticipated income of €4,073,300, for a net requirement of €165,771,055 that is 17 percent more than prior 2022-23 Bennium.  Estimated gross expenditures of €46,711,800 under the operational budget reduced by €3,981,587 estimated income leaves €42,730,213 voluntary contribution.  Paragraph 100 confirms: Total gross expenditures under the operational budget is €46,711,800. These expenditures are to be financed by recovery of cost pertaining to technical and operational services of €3,006,587, income on deposits of €975,000 and the balance €42,730,213 from reimbursement of support cost pertaining to technical cooperation services that is 18 percent more than Appendix B for 2025-25 and 13 percent more than 2022-23. 

  

CEB reported UNIDO subtotal $339 million (2017), $347 million (2018), $356 million (2019), $365 million (2020). Voluntary Contributions – Specified $256 million (2017), $262 million (2018), $269 million (2019), $276 million (2020). Assessed Contributions of $80 million (2017), $82 million (2018), $84 million (2019), $86 million (2020).  Revenue from other activities $3.3 million (2017), $3.4 million (2018), $3.5 million (2019), $3.5 million (2020).  CEB wildly overestimated voluntary contributions and consequently the total has an unacceptable margin of error, and furthermore CEB does not seem to have reduced the regular budget by revenues from other activity.  Prior Programme and Budgets 2018-19 IDB.45/5-PBC.33/5 of 1 March 2017 Annex A and 2020-21 IDB.47/5–PBC.35/5 of 5 March 2019 Annex B, shall have to be reviewed.   

 

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

 

The proposed UNITAR Programme Budget for Biennium (2024-2025) is projected at $89.571 million, which is 7.5 per cent higher than the approved budget for the biennium 2022-2023 for $83.311 million.  Table 3 on page 5 explains the dubious method of accounting for currency exchange gains (losses) = Actual amount received in USD for non-USD contribution minus Equivalent amount based on United Nations Operational Rates of Exchange (UNORE) ie. in 2018 the biggest gain year $10,742,058 was received in USD minus $10,726,042 (UNORE) equals $16,016.  Fiction or crooked currency exchange faction, the insignificant amount of currency exchange gains and losses, does not sustain agency growth in synch with 3 percent inflation for services due.  UNITAR education programs involve a lot of military and industrial security clearance, and their addiction to the Biennium is decipherable, so there does not seem to any impetus to remove the bona fide government to an NGO in ECOSOC with whom they do have a working relationship. CEB makes credible subtotal estimates for UNITAR Voluntary contributions – specified and non-specified and revenues from other sources of $33 million (2017), $34 million (2018), $34 million (2019) and $35 million (2020).  Annexure 1 provides for 2020-21 $75.4 million revenues, $73.2 million expenditures and surplus of $2.2 million, 2022-23 $86 million revenues, $83.5 million expenditures and surplus of $2.6 million, 2024-25 $91.2 million revenues, $89.6 million expenditures and $1.6 million surplus; divide by two.

 

Total - $33 million (2017), $34 million (2018), $34 million (2019), $35 million (2020), $38 million (2021), $38 million (2022), $38 million (2023),  $45 million (2024), $45 million (2025).

 

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

 

Consolidated budget for the biennium 2024–2025 for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is badly addicted to the Biennium and does not report actual annual numbers anywhere in their report.  The UNODC budget is however consistent enough with the Biennium to divide their numbers in half, and even multiply by + and – 1.5 percent to estimate 3 percent inflationary growth for services between historical current and next year requests and results.  UNODC obviously does their work on artistic Ritalin methamphetamine and not brain shrinking pseudo-ephedrine and antidepressant meth, that does belong on the store shelves to cure tweakers of COVID, and all viral and bacterial sinusitis, including the common cold.  UNODC truth is rotted out in regards repealing Drugs from the UN Office of Crime and not being an NGO although associated with ECOSOC, who does want to change their name to Social Economy Administration (SEA), but ONODC accounting ADHDs up the Biennium, and this is just as irresponsible as committing crimes on drugs. 

 

CEB corroborate the theory that UNODC adds up the Biennium and corroborates credible subtotals of assessed and voluntary (specified and non-specified and Revenue from other Activity that can be consolidated into Assessment and Voluntary Contributions and subtotal.  Assessed Contributions $30.6 million (2017), $31.4 million (2018), $32.2 million (2019), $33.0 (2020).  Subtotal $391 million (2017), $401 million (2018), $411 million (2019), $421 million (2020).  Voluntary contributions $360.4 million (2017), $369.6 million (2018), $378.8 million (2019), $388 million (2020).

 

Annex I on page 64/78 of the UNODC Consolidated budget for the biennium 2022-23 E/CN.7/2020/16–E/CN.15/2020/16 of 18 September 2019 and Table 2 on page 17/71 of the UNODC Consolidated budget for the biennium 2024–2025 E/CN.7/2023/13-E/CN.15/2023/17 of 21 September 2023 projects total biennial resources total of $806 million 2020-21, $801 million 2022-23 up from the initial estimate of $693 million 2022-23 to better corroborate CEB and ONODC history, $859 million, 2024-25, regular budget of $43.3 million 2020-21, $47 million 2022-23, $48 million 2024-25.  The 2020-21 Annex I is broken down into years.  Total $424 million 2020, $382 million 2021.  2024-25 Table 2 does not report annual costs anywhere in their report.  For 2020 CEB estimated total UNODC revenues of $421 million, a margin of error of only 0.7 percent.  Going forward UNODC is the ECOSOC NGO that intimidates all the other NGOs and is not part of the UN System budget total.

 

United Nations Development Programme and Office for Project Services

 

It is impossible to discern whether UNOPS financial statistics are the biennium total or one year in the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) budget estimates for the biennium 2024-2025 produced by the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services DP/OPS/2023/8 of 10 July 2023.  CEB reports Revenue from other activities of $834 million (2017), $855 million (2018), $876 million (2019) and $898 million (2020).  UNOPS budget for the biennium 2024-25 reports $325 million biennial revenue estimate to serves as a frame for the UNOPS management budget, 2024-2025. The revenue estimate is based on an underlying estimate for project expenses of $5.9 billion (DP/OPS/2023/7, paragraph 101).  Budget estimates for the 2024-2025 biennium amount to $325 million, as compared to the 2022 actual expenses and 2023 projected expenses of $259.8 million. Actual expenses for 2020-2021 amounted to $126.1 million; for the 2018-2019 biennium, $115.1 million; and for the 2016-2017 biennium, $134.9 million.  It is however impossible to discern whether any these numbers are annual or biennial.  UNOPS estimates are all significantly less than CEB estimated 2017-2020.  The United Nations Population Fund (abortion clinic) seems to be the only bona fide UN agency of the three agencies comprising the Executive Board. UNDP claims to have a budget of $6.5 billion and expenses of only $1.9 billion to pay or 4,566 projects paid for by 968 donors, the end, there are no budget documents to explain the relationship of the Executive Board with and demonstrate the ability of UNDP to adopt their unaccountable beneficiary UNV and unaccountable partner in Biennium UNOPS who are having such a hard time caring for the population and UN government (eg. UN Millennial and Sustainable Development Goals) they devil, accounting for many projects and donors who don’t add up to support.  It would be a great honor to expel the UN Development system comprised of UNDP (the Devil in the Development Goals), UNV (UNDP beneficiary) and UNOPS to account for ODA (UNDP no longer accounts for since 2010 or 2015) as one or more ECOSOC NGOs.

 

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

 

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established within the United Nations (UN) system as a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly by the Assembly in its resolution 302 (IV) of 08 December 1949 and became operational on 1 May 1950. With no political resolution on the refugees' status, the General Assembly has regularly extended UNRWA's mandate; it expires on June 20, 2026. UNRWA is funded primarily through voluntary contributions from governments and also through the UN regular and agency budgets.  The UNRWA Programme Budget 2024-25 requires resources of $891 million in 2024 and $925 million in 2025 on page 9 and declares a Project Budget of $257 million assumed to be accumulated surplus remaining after de facto taxation of Palestinian Authority.  Income is estimated to be $824 million in 2024 and $862 million in 2025.  However, this is reliant upon money from the USA, $227 million 2024 and $236 million in 2025 that has been wrongfully withheld and threatens to reduce income to $597 million in 2024 and $626 million in 2025, and cause a deficit of -$294 million in 2024 and -$236 million in 2025, if not redressed by the USA and/or other national and foundational donors, who take pity on the plight of the victims of Israeli genocide and US complicity, wherefore the preliminary estimates, as if the US contributed, leaving UNRWA with a deficit of -$67 million in 2024 and -$62 million in 2025 are used.  Reviewing the historical Programme Budgets for 2023, when UNRWA is reported to have raised $1.4 billion, their Income Forecast was for only $739 million.  The List of donors is believed to account for donations at the end of the year, from a larger number of sources than anticipated. 

 

In 2023, UNRWA made $1.46 billion in revenues, including $50.8 million in funding received from the UN regular budget and contributions from other UN entities and paid $838 million in expenses.  2023 Confirmed Pledges towards UNRWA's Programmes as 31 December 2023 reports a total of $1,464 million in revenues. 2022 reports $1,175 million in revenues and $814 million expenses.  2021 $1,188 million in revenues and $918 in expenses. 2020 $940 million in revenues and $888 million expenses.  2019 $917 million in revenues to pay $859 million expenses.  2018 $1,276 million in revenues to pay $826 million expenses.  2017 $1,121 million in revenues to pay $775 million core expenditures are reported on pages 15 and 17 of the Programme Budget 2016-2017 of August 2015.  For 2017-20 CEB estimated revenues of $1.2 billion 2017, $929 million 2018, $1.6 billion 2019 and $1.3 billion in 2020, that are accurate.  CEB is however no longer available to defend the myth of US repayment for the wrongful 2018 suspension and the 2018-2020 and 2024 suspension is corroborated by UNRWA donor lists and Congressional Research Service. 

 

The reason for the downturn in revenues 2018-2020 and 2024 is the suspension of US funding, the largest contributor in most years.  Subversive US donations, usually the largest donor, do not ever seem to have paid for anything, but a vanishing surplus. US donations have never been relied upon and may not be any more real than US State Department subsidies to sell weapons to Israel and other genocide complicit nations.  Palestine is the primary creditor of the money to be derived from converting to humanitarian assistance the $8.5 billion State Department International Military Assistance, International Military Education, (non-UN) Peacekeeping and International Narcotic Control and Law Enforcement, leaving Anti-terrorism, Non-proliferation, and Demining the only State Department International Security Assistance.  Palestine is also due an estimated $1.4 billion to sustain finance against a Jewish discrimination that seems to rob the US of its nuclear weapons, and conventional weapons, but maybe not its money Congress so freely contributes to the IDF.  Congressional Research Service The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA): Overview and U.S. Funding Prohibition, Updated June 14, 2024 states: On January 26, 2024, the Biden Administration temporarily “paused” all U.S. funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), citing allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, attacks led by Hamas (a U.S.- designated foreign terrorist organization) against Israel. According to the State Department, the pause prevented approximately $300,000 in unobligated FY2024 funds and just over $2.5 million in obligated but unpaid balances for FY2023 from being disbursed to UNRWA. In March 2024 (in Division G, Section 301 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, P.L. 118-47), Congress prohibited U.S. funding to UNRWA from (1) any amounts provided in prior fiscal years or in FY2024, or (2) for amounts provided in FY2025, until March 25, 2025.  Some other major UNRWA donors also paused their funding in January, though many—including the European Union and Germany—have since resumed contributions.  Table 1 Historical US Government Contributions to UNRWA is corroborated by UNRWA List of Donors, in regards to the termination of funding 2018-2020 and 2024.  

 

UNRWA is suing the US for about $1.4 trillion sustainable funding, for the +/-$350 million that was lost or stolen due to the complicity with Israeli genocide, over four years during 2018-2020 and 2024 pursuant to Basel III.  While it might be more appropriate for UNRWA to receive funding from the UN regular budget, as an ECOSOC NGO, like other academic institutions, UNRWA is much more than a school, it is a hospital and free food supplier to the refugees and mission from the UN to Palestine, the majority of the Assembly has voted for Palestine membership this 2024 and all that remains to resolve the refugee issue is for Israel to respect the 1967 border and pay more than $50 billion UN compensation for the disproportionate death, disability and damage caused by their response to the $50 million UN Compensation they are due to the Simchat Tora War.  UNRWA reports are up to date, in the most adverse of circumstances, their AI and adding up the Biennium annually does not confuse the accountant of their voluntary revenues, and they are in good standing with the UN Budget for quite a long period of peaceful reconstruction before the UN is done apologizing for discriminating against Palestine.  Not taking into consideration the added costs of the genocide in Gaza, it would seem that the suspension of about $350 million in US funding in 2024, from $1.4 billion revenues in 2023, leaving $1 billion to pay $925 million in required resources, should not bankrupt UNRWA in 2024.  Extravagant, but poorly spoken, US funding was always been treated in addition to resource requirements and might have been used exclusively to dig Hamas tunnels and finance terrorism.  Especially if the United States not only pays on time in 2025 but makes good on the $1.4 billion compensation for four years of wrongful suspension of funding 2018-2020 and 2024 with interest in the billions of dollars of humanitarian assistance the US military delivers poorly in response to the current genocide.

 

Total - $1,121 million (2017), $1,276 million (2018), $917 million (2019), $940 million (2020), $1,188 million (2021), $1,175 million (2022), $1,464 million (2023), $824 million (2024), $861 million (2025).

 

United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)

 

UNSSC Statement of Financial Performance near the end of the UNSSC Annual Report 2021, the only such Annual report advertised by Artificial Intelligence states: 2020 total revenues were $13.6 million and total expenses $11.6 million.  Revenues add-up $4.9 million voluntary contributions, $354,000 investment revenues, $8.1 million Other exchange revenue and $229,000 Other revenue. Expenses add-up $7 million employee salaries, $3.2 million non-employee compensation, $11,000 depreciation, $65,000 Other contracted services, $139,000 Travel, and $1.1 million Other operating expenses.  CEB reported UNSSC total revenues were $12.2 million in 2020, less than the $13.6 million reported by the 2021 Annual Report.  In 2021 UNSSC reported Revenues of $19.9 million added-up $6.3 million voluntary contributions, $91,000 Investment revenue, $8.1 million Other exchange revenue and $229,000 Other revenue.  Expenses of $14.6 million add-up $7.5 million employee salaries $5.3 million non-employee compensation, $11,000 depreciation, $41,000 Other contracted services, $144,000 Travel and $1.6 million Other operating expenses.  UNSCC is funded $508,000 annually in both 2020 and 2021 by numerous UN Agencies, FAO, IAEA, ICAO, IFAD, ILO, IMO, ITU, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIDO, United Nations, UNOPS, UNRWA, UNWOMEN, UPU WFP, WHO, WIPO, WMO.  To prevent guesstimating regarding non-reporting and duplicate payments of UN agencies from distorting this UN revenue total the Assembly is advised to transfer responsibility for accounting for the UNSSC from the UN agency budget to ECOSOC NGO.

 

United Nations University (UNU)

 

UNU is totally funded through voluntary contributions, if tuition is not recognized, in the form of institutional funding (primarily recurring host country contributions and investment income derived from the UNU Endowment Fund) and contributions (from UN Member States, foundations, agencies, international organizations and other sources) designated for (curriculum development) specific research projects, not to mention tuition, described as project-based funding in UNU Work Programme and Budget Estimates for the Biennium 2022-23. 

 

CEB did not describe tuition by arbitrarily distinguishing Revenues from other activities and Voluntary contributions -Specified and seems to have been confused by UNU use of the Biennium to report duplicate payments for the duration of 2017-2020.  The ledger must either be redone adding total contributions from UNU Annual Reports 2017-2023 to entered as voluntary contributions, excluding inestimable other revenues and Biennium, be entered as voluntary contributions, or by the method used of removing the UNU NGO from the UN agency list.   

 

UNU Annual Report 2023 is the most recent.  In 2023 UNU reported total income of $129.3 million and total expenditures of $129.3 million for the 2022-23 Biennium.  UNU received a total of $41.4 million contributions, $30.5 million regular contributions from Member states and $10.9 million voluntary contributions from various foundations and UN agencies (duplicate revenues in UN total) between January 1 and December 31, 2023.  UNU Annual Report 2022 reports a grant total of $35.6 million voluntary contributions and anticipated $127 revenues and expenditures for the 2022-23 Biennium.  2021 saw $40.2 million voluntary contributions in 2021 and $112 million revenues and expenditures 2020-21 Biennium. 2020 saw $32.9 million voluntary contributions and $112.5 million for the 2020-2021 Biennium.  2019 received $35.7 million contributions and estimated $109.5 million revenues and expenditures for the 2018-2019 Biennium.  2018 estimates $36.9 million contributions and $108.5 million for the 2018-19 Biennium.  2017 UNU received $31.9 million contributions and estimated $111.1 million revenues and expenditures for the 2016-17 Biennium.

 

Biennium revenues and expenditure estimates assume about 40 percent of total can be derived from 5-15 percent total revenues from other revenues, cumulative surplus carried forward and collection.  It is therefore more unwise, that wise to try to calculate other revenues using the pie-chart percentage provided.  The margin of error would be larger for the effort of calculating annual other revenues from Biennium overestimates than excluding other revenues.  Reporting of Biennium cancellation of revenues and expenditures must be cancelled.  Actual annual revenues do not sustain the Biennium overestimates.  The Assembly is advised to remove UNU from the UN Agency Budget total list.  Governments do not usually account for the universities they subsidize.  UNU would be better described ECOSOC NGO receiving expenditures from multiple UN agencies. 

 

United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

 

UNV is better not-reported by the Assembly.  Non-profit corporation official development assistance (ODA) might be better accounted for by ECOSOC as a non-governmental organization (NGO).  UNV must be described as an expenditure of the United National Development Programme (UNDP) to prevent duplicate accounting and non-reporting of an incredible deficit, except in 2021.  Or UNDP can change their name to UNV to better deny responsibility for reporting Official Development Assistance (ODA) discontinued by country circa 2015.  UNV is based in Bonn, Germany, with around 150 staff members at headquarters, and 12,408 UN Volunteers deployed in the field in 2022.  UNV revenues add-up to only $3,082 per capita to pay expenditures of $21,500 per capita.  UNV was not included in the CEB revenues table 2017-2020.  Financial Overview 2021 indicates total expenditures in 2019 of $221.3 million, $211.8 million program and $9.5 million management, in 2020 $237.4 million total, $228.3 million program and $9.1 million management, in 2021 of $270 million, $260.2 million program and $9.8 million management.  Total expenditures are so much more than declared contributions, it is convenient the financial volume of expenditures is excluded from this work, that is currently limited to revenues due to time constraints and non-reporting of expenditures, more often than not.  UNV revenues are reported as (Voluntary) UNDP core-contributions, excluding Special Voluntary Fund (SVF) and Full Funding (FF) program contributions & interest, paid by (Assessed) Contributions and add up Other.  UNV must produce annual reports of revenue estimates for the next year, to be independent of UNDP, who is obligated to account for UVA revenues and discern the difference between the expenditure of revenues and official development assistance of national partners.  Regular contributions $30.0 million 2021, Voluntary contributions $8.6 million in 2021, there is a history of UNDP contributions to UNV dating to 2011, Other donations $1 million, $165,000 plus $798,000 for Bonn infrastructure, equal $963,000 in 2021, Total revenues add up to $38.7 million in the Financial Overview 2021.

 

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)

 

Figure 1 Regular and Other Resources, in millions of US dollars, Actual 2011(sic -2014 – 2022), Projections 2023-2025 on Page 7 of the Draft Integrated Budget estimates for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women for the biennium 2024-2025, beginning with 2017, provides: 2017 - $360.6 million total, $146.4 million regular and $214.2 million other resources, 2018  - $384.3 million total, $149.0 million regular and $235.3 million other, 2019 - $499 million total, $142 million regular $357 other, 2020 - $539 million total, $166 million regular and $373 million other, 2021 - $546 million total, $165 million regular and $381 million other, 2022 -  $536 million total, $153 million regular and $383 million other, 2023 - $500 million total, $200 million regular and $300 million other, 2024 - $515 million total, $200 million regular and $315 million other, 2025 - $515 million total, $200 million regular and $315 million other.  For the purpose of accounting for total UN revenues this seems to the most reliable source, although it is left to the public to add up. 

 

The perennial $200 million assessment has actually only ever been partially fulfilled.  To make up for this historical deficit, other resources increased 52 percent 2019-20 and remained elevated until 2022, before declining -22 percent in 2023 and must now be stabilized.  Demand for Other resources (ie. voluntary contributions) should grow 6 percent annually to offset stagnant assessments.  Based on $235.3 million other resources in 2018, a level of $305.5 million other resources for 2023 is advised, going up 6 percent annually to $323.8 million in 2024 and $343.3 million in 2025, unless a more effective method of collecting regular budget assessments is developed. 3 percent growth in regular contributions cannot be achieved, because actual receipts are so much lower than the perennial $200 million assessment, and go up and down, and are currently, $153 million in 2022, less than $164 million in 2014. 

 

The three years billion-dollar biennium(s) 2020-21 and 2021-22 after the hyperinflation in 2019, came too soon.  UN-Women should put their savings in a Working Capital Fund to pay for any genuine shortfalls in a 3 percent inflation strategy based on pre-hyperinflationary 2018 levels.  To not recidivate in their inaccurate biennial regular budget request and officially recognize they received $153 million 2022 as the base year and are now asking for 3 percent inflation to exact $157.6 million in 2023, $162.3 million in 2024 and $167.2 million in 2025 from Member states.  3 percent growth in other resources from $235 million in 2018 is $270 million in 2023, $278 million in 2024 and $286 million in 2025.  This comes to a disappointing, but sustainable, total of $428 million 2023, $440 million 2024 and $453 million 2025.  After the premature billion-dollar biennium(s) of 2020-22, another billion-dollar biennium is not due until 2030.  UN Women must value the “birth defect” of their billion-dollar biennium(s) 2020-22, honestly, to pay child benefits, not abortion clinics.  To begin to process the -2.2 percent annual decline in births since COVID-19 became the new HIV in 2020, medical doctors may not be required to sign birth certificates, so that there is no cheating by irrational actors regarding the non-toxic achievement of the statistical goal of global population stabilization and decline, seen in many long-lived, aging, wealthy nations, with low fertility to protect against overexploitation of resources.

 

Assessed contributions - $147 million (2017), $149 million (2018), $142 million (2019), $166 million (2020), $165 million (2021), $153 million (2022), $158 million (2023), $162 million (2024), $167 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - $214 million (2017), $235 million (2018), $357 million (2019), $373 million (2020), $381 million (2021), $383 million (2022), $270 million (2023), $278 million (2024) $286 million (2025)

 

Total - $361 million (2017), $384 million (2018), $499 million (2019), $539 million (2020), $546 million (2021) $536 million (2022), $428 million (2023), $440 million (2024), $453 million (2025).

 

United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

 

UNWTO Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements – 2021 A/24/5(b) rev.1 Annex IV.5: 2022-2023 Proposed budgetary income and expenditure compared with 2020- 2021 - Regular Budget estimates budgetary income at EUR 15,048,000 (2021), EUR 13,317,000 contributions and EUR 1,876,000 from other income sources.  UNWTO Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements – 2022 A/25/5 rev. 2 Annex IV Proposed budgetary income and expenditure compared with 2022-2023 Regular Budget provides for a total budgetary income and expenditures of EUR 15,048,000 (2022), EUR 13,317,000 from contributions, EUR 1,731,000 from other income sources. EUR 15,390,000 (2023), EUR 13,323,000 from contributions and EUR 2,067,000 from other income sources. EUR 15,390,000 (2024), EUR 13,739,000 from contributions, EUR 1,651,000 from other income sources. EUR 16,287,000 (2025), EUR 14,627,000 from contributions and EUR 1,660,000 from other income sources.

 

Assessed contributions - €13 million (2021), €13 million (2022), €13 million (2023), €15 million (2024), €16 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - €2 million (2021), €2 million (2022), €2 million (2023), €2 million (2024), €2 million (2025)

 

Total – €15 million (2021), €15 million (2022), €15 million (2023), €15 million (2024), €16 million (2025).

 

EUR/US dollar exchange rate 1.183 (2021), 1.0538 (2022), 1.0824 (2023), 1.0817 (2024 & 2025)

 

Since 2009 and until 2022 the Regular Budget (RB) has been mainly maintained at zero growth due to a combination of factors including the strict control of expenditures, the maintenance of a high vacancy rate and the utilization of surpluses from prior periods. Over this period, the real purchasing power and, therefore, the impact on real resource availability has declined by some 9%. However, for 2024 and 2025, in the light of high levels of inflation experienced and predicted, the Secretary-General is proposing increases in the budget for 2024 and 2025, which will increase the assessment on Members for each of these two years. The proposed Regular Budget increases are not sufficient to cover the full impact of inflation and they are essential to maintain the operational capacity of the Organization in delivering the Programme of Work. The Secretary General recommends that UNWTO follow the practice of almost all UN organizations in increasing assessed contribution collection due to inflation.  CEB 2017-2020.

 

Assessed contributions - $16 million (2017), $17 million (2018), $17 million (2019), $18 million (2020), $16 million (2021), $14 million (2022), $14 million (2023), $14 million (2024), $16 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions - $3 million (2017), $3 million (2018), $3 million (2019), $3 million (2020), $0 (2021-25)

 

Revenue from other activities - $5 million (2017), $6 million (2018), $6 million (2019), $6 million (2020), $2 million (2021), $2 million (2022), $2 million (2023), $2 million (2024), $2 million (2025)

 

Total - $24 million (2017), $25 million (2018), $26 million (2019), $26 million (2020), $18 million (2021), $16 million (2022), $16 million (2023), $18 million (2024).

 

Universal Postal Union (UPU)

 

Page 19 of the Programme and Budget 2023. Berne 2022 provides the 2023 budget is CHF 77,381,459, CHF 38,890,030 from the regular budget, CHF 20,104,094 from voluntary funding and CHF 18,387,335 from the sale of products and services.  The 2022 budget total is CHF 67,502,159, CHF 38,890,030 regular budget, CHF 11,812,119 voluntary funding and CHF 16,800,010 sales of products and services. Pages 7 and 37-38 of the Universal Postal Union Financial Statement Financial period ending 31 December 2021 done in Berne July 2022 adds up 2021 and 2020 differently and gets slightly higher results, maybe because of COVID spike, but probably due to accounting of Other annual contributions by members of the Telematics and EMS Cooperatives and UUP *Clearing., and of Financial revenue and Other revenue, mostly from rebilling for simultaneous interpretation at UPU conferences. 

 

In 2021 UPU declared CHF 81,667,985 total, CHF 37,991,200 statutory contributions from member countries, CHF 4,488,003 Other annual contributions, CHF 20,681,071 voluntary contributions, CHF 12,654,428 sales, CHF 1,759,677 Financial revenues, CHF 2,906,967 exchange gains, CHF 1,186,639 Other revenue.  In 2020 (restated) CHF 82,748,066 total, CHF 37,977,800 statutory contributions from member countries, CHF 4,734,821 Other annual contributions, CHF 23,360,973 Voluntary contributions, CHF 11,370,730 sales, CHF 2,736,359 Financial revenues, CHF 1,889,731 exchange gains, CHF 677,651 Other revenue. 3 percent inflation 2024-25.

 

Assessed contributions – CHF 38 million (2020), CHF 38 million (2021), CHF 39 million (2022), CHF 39 million (2023),

 

Voluntary contributions – CHF 28 million (2020), CHF 26 million (2021), CHF 12 million (2022), CHF 20 million (2023), CHF 21 million (2024), CHF 21 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other sources – CHF 17 million (2020), CHF 19 million (2021), CHF 17 million (2022), CHF 18 million (2023), CHF 19 million (2024), CHF 19 million (2025)

 

Total – CHF 83 million (2020), CHF 82 million (2021), CHF 67 million (2022), CHF 77 million (2023), CHF 79 million (2024), CHF 82 million (2025).

 

Average CHF to US exchange rate 1.0665 (2020), 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025)

 

Assessed contributions - $37 million (2017), $38 million (2018), $39 million (2019), $40 million (2020), $47 million (2021) $41 million (2022), $43 million (2023), $45 million (2024), $46 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions - $17 million (2017), $17 million (2018), $17 million (2019), $18 million (2020), $23 million (2021), $12 million (2022), $22 million (2023), $23 million (2024), $24 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - $16 million (2017), $16 million (2018), $17 million (2019), $17 million (2020), $20 million (2021), $18 million (2022), $21 million (2023), $21 million (2024), $22 million (2025)

 

Total - $69 million (2017), $71 million (2018), $73 million (2019), $75 million (2020), $89 million (2021), $71 million (2022), $86 million (2023), $89 million (2024), $92 million (2025).

 

World Food Program

 

WFP is flexibly funded entirely by voluntary donations.  It is disconcerting WFP does not produce a conventional budget document or annual audit.  They count up donations by source.  CEB estimates for 2018-2020 are lower than WFP that has wildly fluctuated and crashed.  CEB reported total revenues of $6,430 million (2017), $6,592 million (2018), $6,756 million (2019), $6,925 million (2020).  Contributions to WFP: Comparative Figures (2021) reports revenues of $6,060 million (2017), $7,332 million (2018), $8,053 million (2019), $8,472 million (2020) single year Contributions to WFP (as of July 2024?), $9,578 million (2021), $14,166 million (2022), $8,457 million (2023), $4,090 million (2024).  The $14.2 billion reported for 2022 is likely to be an accounting error, all or mostly due to overestimating US contributions at $7.2 billion (2022), $3.1 billion (2023), $3.8 billion (2021).  2024 is a partial year estimate.  With the probable overestimate in 2022 and slightly less funding in 2023 than in 2020, after a 2021 high of $9.6 billion, it is difficult to estimate growth and WFP funding may be in decline, while hunger grows.  WFP has around 23,500 staff, of whom 87 percent are field based.  Global food insecurity remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, with an increase of 160 million people compared to early 2020. Up to 309 million people are facing acute levels of food insecurity in 2024 in the 72 countries with WFP operations.  Total budgetary needs are estimated at US $22.8 billion (a shortfall of 64 percent).  In conclusion regular 3 percent growth from 2023 will be calculated despite widespread totalitarian famine in UNRWA food relief, for $8,711 million 2024 and $8,927 million 2025. 

 

Total (voluntary contributions) - $6,060 million (2017), $7,332 million (2018), $8,053 million (2019), $8,472 million (2020), $9,578 million (2021), $14,166 million (2022), $8,457 million (2023), $8,711 million (2024), $8,927 million (2025).    

 

World Health Organization

 

CEB Voluntary contributions – specified, non-specified and revenue from other activity are combined.  The Programme Budget 2020-2021 saw high levels of financing $7,916 million total, $506.6 million assessed and $7,409.4 voluntary.  The Programme Budget 2022–2023 WHA74.5 Inf. Doc. 1 approves an overall budget of $6,121.7 million to be financed with $956.9 million in assessed contributions and $5,164.8 million in voluntary contributions.  To calculate the annual amount this number is divided by 2 and multiplied by 0.985 and 1.015 respective of 3 percent usual inflation in government services.  Total revenues are $3,014.9 million, $471.3 assessed and $2,543.7 million voluntary in 2022.  Total revenues were $3,106.8 million, assessed contributions $485.6 million and voluntary contributions $2,621.1 million in 2023. The WHO Programme budget 2024–2025 WHA76.1 (2023) amounts to US $6,834 million to be financed $1,156.3 million by net assessments on Member States and US $5,685.8 million from voluntary contributions, for a total of US $6,842.1 million.  Total revenues are estimated to be $3,369.7 million, assessed contributions $289.0 million, and voluntary contributions $2,800.3 million in 2024.  Total revenues are estimated to be $3,472.4 million, assessed contributions $586.8 million and voluntary contributions $2,885.5 million in 2025. 

 

Assessed contributions - $457 million (2017), $468 million (2018), $489 million (2019) $492 million (2020), $507 million (2021), $471 million (2022), $486 million (2023), $289 million (2024), $597 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions - $2,319 million (2017), $2,377 million (2018), $2,436 million (2019), $2,497 million (2020), $3,570 million (2021), $2,544 million (2022), $2,621 million (2023), $2,800 million (2024), $2,886 million (2025)

 

Total $2,775 million (2017), $2,845 million (2018), $2,.916 million (2019), $2,989 million (2020), $4,077 million (2021), $3,015 million (2022), $3,107 million (2023), $3,089 million (2024), $3,472 million (2025).

 

World Intellectual Property Organization

 

WIPO is almost entirely self-financing.  Approximately 95 per cent of income is generated from fee-paying services provided to users of the Global Intellectual Property Systems.  The Annual Financial Report and Financial Statements Year to December 31, 2021 reports total revenue of CHF 475.1 million, CHF 17.4 million assessed contributions and CHF 457.7 in user-fees in 2021. Assessed contributions from member states are estimated in the PoW&B and Updated Income Estimates for 2022/23 at CHF 35 million.  Updated Income Estimates reported in the Annual Financial Report and Financial Statements Year to December 31, 2022 estimates total revenues of CHF 498.5 million, CHF 17.2 million assessed contributions and CHF 481.3 million user-fees.  The Annual Financial Report of 2023 reports total revenues of CHF 489.3 million, CHF 17.8 million assessed contributions and CHF 471.5 million user-fees in 2023.  The WIPO Program of Work and Budget for 2024/25, estimates overall income in 2024/25 will reach CHF 972.6 million Swiss francs, CHF 35.2 million assessed contributions and CHF 937.4 million user fees.  Allowing for 3 percent inflation, this comes to CHF 479.0 total, CHF 17.3 million assessed contributions and CHF 461.7 million user fees in 2024; CHF 493.6 million total, CHF 17.9 million assessed contributions and CHF 475.7 million user fees.   This represents an increase of 2.2 per cent compared to the 2022/23 PoW&B and a decrease of 1.8 per cent compared to the 2022/23 Updated Income Estimates.  CEB 2017-2020.  CEB 2017-2020. 

 

Assessed contribution - $18 million (2017), $19 million (2018), $19 million (2019), $20 million (2020), $19 million (2021), $18 million (2022), $20 million (2023), $20 million (2024), $20 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities - $405 million (2017), $415 million (2018), $425 million (2019), $436 million (2020), $501 million (2021), $505 million (2022), $525 million (2023), $520 million (2024), $535 million (2025)

 

Total - $423 million (2017), $433 million (2018), $444 million (2019), $455 million (2020), $520 million (2021), $523 million (2022), $555 million (2023), $538 million (2024), $555 million (2025).

 

Average CHF to US exchange rate 1.0067 (2019), 1.0665 (2020), 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025)

 

Assessed contributions – CHF 17 million (2021), CHF 17 million (2022), CHF 18 million (2023), CHF 18 million (2024), CH 18 million (2025)

 

Revenues from other activities – CHF 458 million (2021), CH 481 million (2022), CHF 472 million (2023), CHF 469 million (2024), CHJF 469 million (2025)

 

Total - CHF 475 million (2021), CHF 499 million (2022), CHF 489 million (2023), CHF 486 million (2024), CHF 486 million (2025).

 

World Meteorological Organization

 

Report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Fourth Quarter 2021 Financial Situation of 28 March 2022 and Budget(s) for the Biennium(s) 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 Draft Resolution 3/1(EC-77) Doc. 3.

 

Assessed contributions - CHF 67.9 million (2021) CHF 67.9 million (2022), CHF 67.9 million (2023), CHF 69.4 million (2024), CHF 70.0 million (2025)

 

Voluntary contributions - CHF 15.4 million (2021), CHF 30.1 million (2022), CHF 33 million (2023), 3% inflation est. CHF 34 million (2024) and CHF 35 million (2025). 

 

Total - CHF 83.3 million (2021), CHF 97.3 million (2022), CHF 100.9 million (2023), CHF 103.4 million (2024) and CHF 105 million (2025).

 

Average CHF to US exchange rate 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025)

World Trade Organization

 

The WTO derives its income from annual contributions from its 164 members and miscellaneous income derived from rental fees, the sale of publications and trust funds that have been set aside by members.  Steady increases in US dollar amounts are the result of a currency exchange trend whereby the Swiss franc generally appreciates against the US dollar.  0.27 percent average annual growth 2012-2025 however does not compete with consumer price inflation. 

 

WTO must calculate their restriction to safeguard balance of payments is in error to fail to anticipate 3 percent inflation for services and peg their growth entirely on, probably fictitious, and certainly inadequate, net gains in currency exchange, and like all government agencies, their budget requests are due 3 percent inflation for services, to expand rather than contract international trade pursuant Art. XII of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (1948).  WTO neglected to sell hydrocortisone, eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint or salt helps water cure coronavirus colds; Eucalyptus cures COVID and flu, Echinacea cures COVID, RSV and flu; when requested.  Now, to treat the Iron Law of Wages, WTO must beg for 3 percent inflation for services to be distinguished from the desired consumer price inflation and central bank discount rate of 2 percent.

 

WTO reports zero nominal growth 2012-2023 whereas contributions from members remained set at CHF 195,500,000.  The WTO’s budget for each year of 2021, 2022 and 2023 estimates an annual budget total of CHF 197,204,000, with CHF 195,500,000 contributed by members and CHF 1,704,000 in miscellaneous income/voluntary contributions.  Members agreed to raise the WTO's operational budget by 3.6%, from CHF 197,203,900 (2023) to CHF 204,900,000, for the 2024 and 2025 period.    

With miscellaneous income of CHF 1,704,000 (2021-2023) held constant, it is calculated WTO assessment must increase from CHF 195,500,000 (2023) to CHF 203,196,000 (2024 and 2025).  Having come to appreciate inflation the WTO Annual Report must produce a more detailed explanation of how assessed contributions plus voluntary contributions and miscellaneous income equal or exceed the total WTO budget.  

 

Average CHF to US exchange rate used in this work is 1.0163 (2017), 1.0225 (2018), 1.0067 (2019), 1.0665 (2020), 1.0941 (2021), 1.0481 (2022), 1.1137 (2023), 1.124 (2024 & 2025)

 

Assessed contributions – CHF 195.5 million (2012-23), CHF 203.2 million (2024-25)

 

Voluntary contributions – CHF 1.7 million (2012-25)

 

Total – CHF 197.2 million (2012-23), CHF 204.9 million (2024-25)