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