THIRD APT PREPARATORY MEETING FOR PP06 46 July 2006 Bangkok, Thailand CITEL Preparations for the Ple

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THIRD APT PREPARATORY MEETING FOR PP-064-6 July
2006Bangkok, ThailandCITEL Preparations for
the Plenipotentiary Conference

• Bruce A. Gracie

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CITEL Preparations for PP-06

• Preparations being undertaken in Working Group on
  Conference Preparations
• Substantive preparations under direction of Janis
  Doran (Canada)

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CITEL Preparations for PP-06

• Two Inter-American Proposals submitted to ITU
  (Document 15)
• Financial Consequences of Denunciation
• Proposal on Observers
• Draft Inter-American Proposals to be considered
  by next meeting (July 10-12)
• Implementation of Results-based Management in ITU
• Disposition of ITRs
• Resolution 86
• Role of the Coordination Committee
• Resolution 130 (Strengthening the role of ITU in
  interaction and communication network security)

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• Draft Financial Plan / General Financial Issues
• being developed by the Working Group on the
  elaboration of the draft Strategic and draft
  Financial Plans 2008-2011 most recent meetings
  held April 18th and the 25th
• Provisional value of the contributory unit
• Councils discussion of working draft of
  Financial Plan (CV No. 161B) - 4 scenarios for
  provisional value of contributory unit
• Councils choice - 318,000 CHF (Zero Nominal
  Growth) per contributory unit for Member States
  as basis of the Draft Financial Plan - lowest
  of the four scenarios

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• Critical priorities for PP preparations on
  financial matters
• identify options for expenditure reduction/review
  of Pending Items
• avoid a global cut!

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• Balancing income and expenditure
• gap between projected income and projected
  expenditure must be addressed
• setting of priorities another way to approach
  the problem, but potentially more difficult
• working draft of Financial Plan (see Annex II)
  has list of Pending Items (previously referred to
  as UMACsunfunded mandated activities).
• pending items which activities in Annex II can
  be accommodated and how??
• identify areas of duplication to be rationalized
  and avoid arbitrary figures as limits for
  language costs
• tackling the arrears situation to develop a
  consistent strategy

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• Balancing income and expenditure continued
• Added complications income loss for free online
  access to ITU-T Recommendations (see C06/03 and
  Decision 542 in C06/82)
• cost implications of implementing new
  International Public Service Accounting
  Standards, compliance with UN security standards,
  changes in UN common system for salaries,
  benefits, pensions etc
• currency fluctuations (US/CHF)
• Needs to be a direct link between contributory
  unit and a possible increase in the number of
  contributory units, on the one hand, with the
  number of programmes and activities to be
  undertaken in the future, on the other

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• Review of Resolution 91 Cost recovery for some
  ITU products and services
• Strategic Financial Plan Working Group on has
  begun review of cost recovery (Res. 91)
• Secretariat prepared a revision to Res 91, based
  on the decisions taken by Council on such matters
  (eg new cost allocation methodology for
  calculation of satellite network filing fees)
• proposal from Australia (for WG FINREGS)
  -Delegation of authority from PP to Council to
  cancel debts see document C06/32

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• Satellite network cost recovery corrective
  measures
• report of BR on implementation of Council 05
  decisions was useful and positive
• Council decisions on corrective measures have
  been forwarded to PP to take necessary action -
  see C06/70 Decision 539
• Draft Strategic Plan
• WSIS Outcomes

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• WSIS Follow-up
• Staff Matters
• Council re-establishes Tripartite Group on HR
  matters C06/62 Resolution 1253 Tripartite Group
  on Human Resources Management efforts to
  address Staff concerns
• Use of Languages
• Report of Council WG on Languages (see C06/28 and
  C06/19)
• Review and update of Resolution 115 (Use of the
  six official and working languages of the Union
  on an equal footing) and Resolution 104
  (Reduction of the volume and cost of
  documentation for ITU conferences)
• Work to be done by correspondence, report to
  additional session of Council just before PP

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• Improvements to ITU Management
• Follow-up to Decision 7 and Resolution 107
• Council oversight options- linkage within Union
  and between Sectors - continuation of New
  Council Oversight Group (NCOG) up to PP
• Implementation of Results-based Management Draft
  proposal from Canada on implementation of Results
  based Management- next step after Results-based
  Budgeting

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• Results Based Management
• Main pillars of RBM
• -planning, programming, budgeting, monitoring
  and evaluation
• -delegation of authority and accountability
• -staff performance management and contracts.
• Canada has developed proposal for a resolution on
  the implementation of RBM
• Related proposals from Members States (eg US and
  Europe) on accountability, division of
  responsibilities etc.

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• Regional Presence
• Review and possible audit of current
  configuration of regional and area offices (Res
  25 review/revision needed)
• Disposition of an area office in Rabat, Morocco

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• Final Thoughts
• Need to be selective and focus on prioritizing
  issues three week conference
• Important to move forward on further improvements
  in ITU management budgetary process, e.g. RBM
• Proposals for amendments to legal instruments,
  while important and supportable, might best be
  considered and acted upon in a systematic and
  comprehensive way at PP-10 there will be not
  time at PP-06
• To reconcile various proposals for changes to
  Constitution and Convention

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• Final Thoughts
• Need for amendments to legal instruments could be
  reflected in a PP-06 Resolution
• Establishment of a working group may be a way
  forward to implement such a resolution