The key role
more effectively its responsibilities in to ad of project evaluation while at the
same time enabling the Secretariat of the P to function more effectively in the
follow-up and monitoring of projects and in the evaluation of performance.
of the Director of the Division in relation to the Fund will be that of providing advisory
services to the Executive Director in the becimical and professional evaluation of projects
submitted to the latter for financing, 16 hould be made clear that this is an advisory
function only, and that the final decision making authori by will continue to rest with
the Executive Director of the Fund; nonetheless the importance of the Director's role
in this connection can hardly be over-empitusized. It will involve the examination and
elabcration of individual projects in close consultation and co-operation with the
agencies proposing the projects, with a view to ensuring that the project as presented
to the Executive Director for approval meets the tests of technical and professional
adequacy, and is consistent with the overall objectives which the United Nations, through
is various legislative bodies, in particular the Narcotics Commission, has set for itself
In the narcotics and drug abuse control field.
Finally, in some instances, the Narcotics Division itself may be designated by the Executive Director as the executing agency in respect of a specific project.
In general,
it is not considered appropriate that the Division should become heavily involved as
Cecuting agency for major projects in the field, but special circumstances may require
this in individual cases, Where the Division is selected as the executing agency, either for field projects in exceptional cases, or for smaller projects, such as seminars,
training programmes, etc., its role and function will be similar to that of other executing
wrencies as outlined in preceding portions of this statement.
Conclusion
The foregoing guide lines for the Division and for the Fund are calculated, in
the opinion of the Secretary-General, to provide a sound and constructive basis for
llaboration between those two important elements in the campaign which the
United Nations is waging in the field of narcotics and drug abuse control. The
Secretary-General considers that the organizational arrangements here proposed provide
a practical basis for continuing collaboration. It is however his intention to keep
these arrangements under continuing review and if experience over the next year or so
indicates the desirability of altering these arrangements in any way, he will consider
the need for such changes at the appropriate time. In this he will be guided to a large extent by the advice terdered to him by the experience of the Director of the Narcotics
Division and the Executive Director of the Fund, whose close and intimate collaboration
is without question the essential prerequisite to the success of the entire United Nations
efforts in the narcotics field.
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