The Executive Board reaffirms the importance as well as the value-added of the United Nations Volunteers programme at the global, regional and national levels, including in poverty reduction, electoral support and the promotion of South-South collaboration. Furthermore, the Executive Board supports the relevant bridging role that UNV volunteers can play in the transition from humanitarian assistance to reconstruction and rehabilitation and to longer-term sustainable development.

The Report gives an overview of the key features and achievements of the work of the United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV) over the last two years. It also highlights the Programme’s vision and strategic directions as it charts its course in a changing world in which the importance of volunteer contributions to the development of peaceful and prosperous societies is increasingly recognized.

Multi-year funding framework and support budget estimates for the biennium 2000-2001.

The Executive Board notes the diversity in the range of work of the United Nations Volunteers and their roles, the growth of the United Nations Volunteers Programme overall, and in particular, the achievement of reaching the largest number of the serving volunteers. In addition, the Executive Board welcomes the decision to proclaim 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers.

Budget estimates for the biennium 1998-1999 - Approves the proposal by the Administrator as contained in paragraphs 103 to 114 of document DP/1997/23 on the staffing formula for adding supplementary stuff at United Nations Volunteers headquarters

The Executive Board stresses the need for further contributions, including through for example, co-financing arrangements, to the special Voluntary Fund for activities of the United Nations Volunteers, the United Nations Short-Term Advisory Resources, and the Transfers of Knowledge through Expatriate Nationals and other United Nations Volunteers operations. In addition, the Executive Board supports the United Nations Volunteers as the United Nations operational arm of the White Helmets initiative.

The Report highlights dramatic evaluation of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) activities in the humanitarian, peacebuilding and governance arenas over the past two years.

Revised budget estimates for the biennium 1994-1995 and budget estimates for the biennium 1996-1997. The Executive Board takes note of the cost-savings that will occur as a result of decision 95/2 on the relocation of the United Nations Volunteers headquarters to Bonn, and urges the Administrator, in light of these savings, to increase programme activities involving the United Nations Volunteers.

The Executive Board endorses the proposal of the Secretary General to accept the offer of the Government of the Germany to relocate the Headquarter of the United Nations Volunteers to Bonn from mid, 1996 onward. Therefore, The Executive Board authorizes the Administrator, following the acceptance in principle by the Secretary General, to continue discussuions in terms and provisions of the offer in order to resolve the outstanding issues and finalize the arrangement that will enable the transfer of the headquarters of the United Nations Volunteers to Bonn in July 1996.

Proposal of the Secretary-General to relocate the headquarters of the United Nations Volunteers programme from Geneva to Bonn