CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES - BUDGET FOR 2024–2026 AND PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR

The primary responsibilities of the DES are to: • advise, assist and deputize for the ES in the overall organization, operation and management of the Secretariat, including the common services shared with the Agreement Secretariats; and in the planning, coordination and direction of substantive work programmes; • oversee the administrative, financial and human resource matters of the Secretariat,. [...] In the case of UNEP, the Executive Director has, in accordance with the established PSC policy, decided to return a portion of the PSC charged on the expenditure of all the funds in the CMS Family to help cover the costs of the CMS Secretariat’s administrative support services. [...] Decides that the Executive Secretary, subject to the approval of the Standing Committee, and, in urgent cases, with the approval of the Chair of the Standing Committee alone, shall have the authority to spend or apply funds saved from the implementation of the core budget and funds from new Parties joining the Convention to activities in the approved costed Programme of Work not covered by the cor. [...] For contributions from States that become Parties after the beginning of the financial period, the initial contribution (from the first day of the third month after deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or accession till the end of the financial period) shall be determined pro rata, based on the contributions of other Parties on the same level as the United Nations scale of assessm. [...] Upon the request of the Secretariat of the Convention after seeking the advice of the Standing Committee, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme should, to the extent consistent with the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, make transfers from one object of expenditure to another.