1. CWG-FHR Draft Budget of the Union for 2018-2019
Presented by
Financial Resources Management Department
January 2017

2. Draft Budget for
The draft Budget for is based on a zero nominal growth in the amount of the contributory unit of Member States, as per Decision 5 (Rev. Busan, 2014);
The contributory unit has been maintained at CHF 318,000 as it was for the last 6 biennia, since 2006;
The draft Budget is balanced in terms of revenue and expenses;
The biennium includes two major events:
PP-18: Plenipotentiary Conference
WRC-19: World Radiocommunication Conference

3. Draft Budget for
The draft Budget for amounts to CHF million against CHF million in That is CHF 1.6 million lower as shown in the following Table:

4. Draft Budget for
The next Table provides the comparisons/variances between;
Budget and the Estimates for ;
And the Financial Plan as approved by PP-14 in Decision 5 (Rev. Busan, 2014) and total of two biennial Budgets (Budget and Estimates ).

5. Draft Budget for

6. Draft Budget for
Revenue includes a deposit of CHF 1.1 million out of CHF 2.45 million to the Reserve Account, as CHF1.3 million will be from the savings from 2017 voluntary separation programme;

7. Draft Budget for
ITU management has made every effort to reduce costs related to Staff;
A vacancy rate of 5% has been applied in the draft Budget for staff-costs calculations, to be attained by a combination of recruitment delays, part-time work and leave without pay.
The implementation of the vacancy rate is challenging, which will entail efficient management of vacant positions and recruitment;
24 budgeted posts have been reduced across the Union, from 766 in to 742 in

8. Draft Budget for 2018-2019 Budgeted posts

9. Draft Budget for 2018-2019 Next steps
Efficiency measures as outlined in Annex 2 to Decision 5 (Rev. Busan, 2014) have been taken into account in the elaboration of the draft Budget for ;
Some of these measures were already implemented in various levels to previous budgets starting ;
Estimated savings from further implementation of these measures are being calculated and will be introduced in the estimates for the biennium to be presented to Council-17.

10. Draft Budget for 2018-2019 Next steps
The draft Budget under the Results-based budgeting format will be presented to Council 2017;
Linkage with the Goals and Objectives of the ITU Strategic Plan for will be provided, based on the time survey.

11. Status of the Reserve Account before closing of the 2016 accounts
Status of the new ASHI fund as on 31 December 2015 is CHF 7 Million.

12. Thank you Questions, comments?