Examples of using Ipfs in English and their translations into Arabic
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IPFs are infrequently revised, and have come to be viewed as entitlements.
It is expected that revised IPFs will be fully programmed by June 1995.
This compares with the fact that the Africa regionaccounts for 45 per cent of total country IPFs.
The total increase in IPFs resulting from these changes amounts to $22.8 million.
They were used because the standard procedure for calculating IPFs does not allow for exceptions.
In past cycles, carry-over of unused entitlementshas usually amounted to 5 per cent of IPFs.
During the third cycle, for example, IPFs had to be cut by 45 per cent.
Finalized IPFs for countries with net contributor country status in the fifth cycle are included in the annex.
Funding for UNV specialists, which was primarily from IPFs, has become correspondingly more diversified.
(c) Encourage countries to continue to allocate a proportion of their national IPFs for TCDC;
Many delegations also recognized that modest IPFs can serve as a critical catalyst for additional resource mobilization.
Countries that face special obstacles to development areawarded supplementary points that translate into additional IPFs.
As shown in table II, country IPFs in the fifth cycle represent some 63 per cent of core programme resources.
Divided by main sources of funds, the largest share of fieldprogramme expenditures in 1992, 72 per cent, comes from the IPFs.
In accordance with paragraph 5 of decision 91/29, these IPFs have been provided for from the amount originally set aside for this purpose.
This reflected a reduction in the earmarkings of the TSS-2 facility as well as the technical facility for national execution,in line with the overall reduction in IPFs.
As discussed in section II, the expenditures resulting from these IPFs will be contained within the resources actually available to the programme.
If these revised IPFs are fully programmed, and delivered, the resulting expenditures will equal the target level of $2,933 million mentioned above.
Based on the current estimate of contributions in the remaining years of the fifth cycle,it has become doubtful that the IPFs, as established, will be fully financed.
(b) Approve revised IPFs for individual countries/programmes, as set out in table 2, constituting 70 per cent of originally established IPFs;
This more recent view is more far reaching than the above recommendation, as it holds that both current arrears andfuture contributions should be paid from the IPFs.
In the current system, IPFs are assigned for a fixed five-year period based on resource projections made at least a year and a half prior to the commencement of that cycle.
The table lists small island developing countries andcountries affiliated with AOSIS, along with their allocated IPFs during the fifth cycle(1992-1996).
A/ It should be noted thatonly 75 per cent of the fifth cycle IPFs plus all of fourth cycle carry-overs are currently available for programme planning purposes.
Of these countries, those that are currently officially designated LDCs arereceiving nearly 59 per cent of country IPFs, as against 33 per cent in the first cycle.
This list reflects revised IPFs for some countries/programmes that result from changes in basic data, as authorized by the Council in its decision 92/29 of 26 May 1992.
From the early 1980s, there has been increasing concern on thepart of various countries that unrestricted use of IPFs for disparate purposes had led to a scattering of assistance, with the consequent loss of programme focus and impact.
After this level, IPFs need to be reimbursed in full and a substantial part of the costs of UNDP field offices(except for those of the Resident Representative and the Deputy Resident Representative under certain circumstances) borne by the Government concerned.
In accordance with paragraph 24 of decision 90/34, regional IPFs were established for the five regions concerned at the end of 1990 in proportion to total country IPFs for each region.
It is unfortunate that the most adversely affected by cuts in IPFs are the poorest countries, with a gross national product(GNP) per capita of $750 or less, which receive 87 per cent of resources assigned to national IPFs.