ESCAP 55th Session

Table 2. Summary of workload statistics for the first half of the biennium 1998-1999 by subprogramme a/

(Number of outputs/activities))

Subprogramme 1. Regional economic cooperation: trade and investment 2. Regional economic cooperation: research and policy analysis 3. Regional economic cooperation: industry and technology 4.Environment and sustainable development 5. Poverty alleviation: social development 6. Poverty alleviation: rural and urban development 7. Poverty alleviation: population and development 8.Transport and communications 9. Statistics 10. Least developed, landlocked and island developing countries Total
Type of activities                      
I. SERVICING OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND EXPERT BODIES
(i) Substantive services b/ 5 0 9 5 8 3 3 4 3 2 42 c/
(ii) Parliamentary documentation 9 2 5 10 6 6 3 10 7 4 62
(iii) Ad hoc expert groups and related preparatory work 2 1   1     1       5
II. OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ACTIVITIES
(i) Mandated recurrent publications 12 4   6 2 20 3   9   56
(ii) Discretionary recurrent publications                     0
(iii) Mandated non-recurrent publications 2   1 2 1   1       7
(iv) Discretionary non-recurrent publications 4   1 1 2 1   1 8   18
(v) Electronic, audio and video issuances, including films, video tapes, radio broadcasts, tapes of news, documentary and feature programmes 1     1 4 3 1 2 1   13
(vi) Exhibits       2 1       1   4
(vii) Booklets, pamphlets, fact sheets, wall charts, information kits 1     2 31   1       35
(viii) Technical material for outside users (databases, software etc.) 3       2 4 12   1   22
(ix) Special events         1           1
IV. TECHNICAL COOPERATION
(i) Advisory services at the request of the governments 4 1 5 6 4 2 11 4   1 38
(ii) Group training (seminars, workshops, symposia) 22 7 14 50 15 26 8 20 4 1 167
  Number of people trained under IV(ii) 697 194 576 1,701 967 848 263 740 148 6 6,140
(iii) Fellowships       4 1           5
(iv) Field projects                     0
                         
  a/ Excluding activities undertaken under category III, "International cooperation and inter-agency coordination and liaison", which are difficult to quantify.
  b/ Substantive services are expressed in terms of the number of meeting days, e.g. one meeting with the duration of three working days= 1 x 3 = 3. Figures exclude the number of meeting days for the organization of the annual Commission sessions.
  c/ The figure represents the total number of meetings serviced by the secretariat, excluding some double and triple counting under subprogrammes 1 and 3 and subprogrammes 5, 6 and 7. It also excludes the number of meeting days for the organization of the annual Commission sessions.