Synthesis of PACE Financial Report

The team of consultants should mention that after meeting with the main financial controller of thePACE programme, Mr. Alex Saelert, they have been signified that the financial data obtained are notfinal since the programme is to be continue up to the 28 February 2007. He has also made clear thatthe final report of the PACE financial data can be considered as his duty and will be done later.Consequently, in this report, it will only be reported data up to 21 November 2006 with very slightanalyses.Overall, steady progress has been achieved on the financial execution of the programme since the lastAdvisory Committee meeting in Bamako, October 2006. Additional commitments have been mobilisedfor some of the member countries and to finance additional regional component activities (i.e. a servicecontract for VSF to continue assistance on epidemio-surveillance in South Sudan).