2010 Progress Report – Draft - NFP Facility

2010 Progress ReportTable 3: Facility expenditures in 2010 (US$)NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAMME FACILITY 2010EXPENDITURES Planned Actual/CommittedCountry SupportFacility Grants-Africa 1,000,000 1,492,000 1-Asia & Pacific 450,000 388,000-Central Asia & Near East 150,000 0-Latin America & Caribbean 1,000,000 1,430,000 2Nfp’s for All (awareness/capacity)Testing and introduction of tools200,000100,000175,00050,000Policy Backstopping 900,000 636,000Total 3,650,000 4,171,000Information ServicesFacility Web Platform 25,000 4,000Dissemination & Learning 170,000 95,000Knowledge & Capacity Building 210,000 82,000Promotion of the Facility (UNFF, WFC, CLI) 5,000 10,000Total 410,000 201,000Programme DeliveryPersonnel 1,200,000 1,404,000Travel, GOE & Equipment 200,000 270,000OIMES 5,000 0Total 1,405,000 1,674,000TOTAL DIRECT COST 5,465,000 6,046,000Indirect Support Cost 310,000 357,000GRAND TOTAL 5,775,000 6,403,000As presented in Table 3, the overall expenditures in 2010 amount to 111% of the amount planned andapproved and is 1 million more than in 2009. The financial outcome for 2010 is commented upon in thefollowing.Country SupportSupport to countries represents 65% of total expenditures (64% in 2009). Of this, 3,5 Million US$ or 55% of thetotal expenditures (2.6 Million US$ and 48% in 2009) was provided as direct support, in the form of smallgrants to stakeholders in partner countries (Table 4). Since 2002, the direct support to countries, in the form ofsmall grants, represents 53% of total programme costs (30 million US$).The support to Africa is 50 % and to Latin America 40% above planned and Asia is almost on plan. The onlyexception to good performance is Central Asia having not received any small grants at all in 2010. The totalnumber of small grants is by far the highest in Africa. The average size of the grants is also much smaller inAfrica (19,000) than in the other regions (25,000 in Asia and 31,000 in Latin America). The average grant inLatin America is almost double the amount in Africa (29,000 compared to 17,000).The total lack of small grants to Central Asia is a combined effect of slow country processes and low Facilitycoaching capacity. The coaching arrangements for Central Asia were thus changed at the end of 2010.As for Asia, the nfp process has still not taken off in Nepal and Bhutan, and the process in Cambodia has come1 Includes US$ 95,000 for GFP Mozambique and US$ 92,000 GFP Liberia2 Includes US$ 450,000 for GFP Guatemala30