43rd Meeting - Geneva, 5-9 July 2004

Document UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/12:  contains the progress report of UNDP for activities up to 31 December 2003 and the comments and recommendations of the Fund Secretariat on the Report.

• Possible request for additional status reports on projects with slow progress; and
• Apparent project overrun.

The Executive Committee may wish to:

 

1. Note UNDP’s progress report contained in UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/43/12.

2. Monitor the following projects as projects with implementation delays and note their slow progress:

(a) The halon bank in the Dominican Republic (DOM/HAL/38/TAS/32);
(b) The halon bank in Egypt (EGT/HAL/32/TAS/81); 
(c) The halon bank in Mexico (MEX/HAL/35/TAS/104); 
(d) The monitoring project for the RMP in Mali (MLI/REF/32/TAS/10);
(e) The monitoring project for the RMP in Nepal (NEP/REF/28/TAS/07);
(f) RMP in Viet Nam (VIE/REF/35/TAS/38 and 39);
(g) Harmony foam project in Nigeria (NIR/FOA/34/INV/89);
(h) Global Plastic Industries project in Nigeria (NIR/FOA/34/INV/91); and
(i) Al-Saad refrigeration project in Syria (SYR/REF/35/INV/81).
3. Note that UNDP will report to the 44th Meeting on up to 42 projects with implementation delays including 18 projects that were so classified last year. 

4. UNDP had 269 projects that it had classified as completed for over one year with remaining balances totalling US $4,108,662. 

5. Reaffirm Decision 17/22 in the light of apparent project overruns included in UNDP’s 2003 progress report and agree that funds returned in error may be returned to the implementing agency in line with previous practices.