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You will also find a breakdown of cost plans and financial information on by subprogramme
and geographic local on. Our budget for 2014 is US$240.6 million which
includes US$90.7 million from the regular budget and US$149.9 million from
extrabudgetary sources. In 2013, voluntary contributions reached US$121.2 million,
an increase of US$10 million compared with 2012. Despite this increase, we are
challenged by a funding gap.
In the past four years, special procedures mandates have increased from 38 to 58
and the number of experts serving on treaty bodies has gone up from 139 to 172.
While such growth is welcome, as it demonstrates the increasing international acknowledgment
of our work, it has not been matched by additional resources.
To ensure the best possible use of existinng resources, we began an office-wide
Funcional Review. Thorough consultations across the Office, including field offices,
have enabled us to identify three overarching themes which need to be addressed:
internal alignment, operational eff ecftiveness and ability to respond to changing
priorities. This review is crisis in managing the rapid growth of our Office over the
past eight years and the increasing number of requests for our assistance.
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