Support Account for Peacekeeping Operations

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 148Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2026.

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5 topics

Financial Resources Peacekeeping Operations Programme Budgeting Programme Planning Support Accounts

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33 operative paragraphs

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027 and the report of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee on the proposed budget of the Office of Internal Oversight Services under the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027;

Reaffirms its role in carrying out a thorough analysis and approval of human and financial resources and policies with a view to ensuring the full, effective and efficient implementation of all mandated programmes and activities and the implementation of policies in this regard;

Also reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibility for administrative and budgetary matters;

Further reaffirms rule 153 of its rules of procedure;

Reaffirms that the support account funds shall be used for the sole purpose of financing human resources and non‑human resources requirements for backstopping and supporting peacekeeping operations at Headquarters, and that any changes in this limitation require the prior approval of the General Assembly;

Also reaffirms the need for adequate funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations, as well as the need for full justification for that funding in support account budget submissions;

Further reaffirms the need for effective and efficient administration and financial management of peacekeeping operations, and urges the Secretary-General to continue to identify measures to increase the productivity and efficiency of the support account;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of the relevant provisions of its resolutions 59/296 of 22 June 2005, 60/266 of 30 June 2006, 61/276 of 29 June 2007, 64/269 of 24 June 2010, 65/289 of 30 June 2011, 66/264 of 21 June 2012, 69/307 of 25 June 2015, 70/286 of 17 June 2016 and 76/274 of 29 June 2022, and its other relevant resolutions;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, subject to the provisions of the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

Decides to maintain, for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027, the funding mechanism for the support account used in the current period, from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, as approved in paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/221 B;

Recalls paragraph 30 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Secretary-General to review the cost-sharing arrangement for the Umoja system and to submit proposals, supported by clear, evidence-based justifications and appropriate calculations, in the next progress report on the Umoja system, for consideration and approval by the General Assembly;

Notes the application of the scalability model, which provides an evidence-based methodology to indicate the level of resources for the support account and does not replace the consideration and approval of the budget of the support account by the General Assembly and legislative review processes, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the scalability model under continuous review and to report to the Assembly on its review at the eighty-second session;

Also notes the role of the support account, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure timely, effective and efficient backstopping to peacekeeping operations, particularly in the context of new and evolving mandates, and to maintain core capacity and institutional knowledge;

Further notes the efficiency and restructuring measures, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that these measures do not adversely affect the operational capacity of peacekeeping support structures, the quality of services provided to field missions and the safety and security of personnel, and to provide in the next report information on the impact of those measures on all of these aspects;

Notes that the proposed support account requirements for 2026/27 include backstopping requirements arising from the establishment of a new mission, and stresses the importance of continuing to ensure that such requirements are appropriately reflected in staffing and resource decisions;

Also notes the increasing complexity of environments in which peacekeeping missions operate;

Requests the Secretary-General to consider options for parameters for a staffing model for the determination of the civilian personnel component of peacekeeping missions, and emphasizes that the said options and parameters should not be retroactively applied nor impact the current staffing levels of the missions, which should be considered as the baseline of resource requirements of each mission for any analysis and shall give proper consideration of the need to preserve and ensure continuation of the effective delivery of the mandates entrusted to the missions, while paying due regard to the resolutions of the Security Council, current missions’ workload drivers, scope of missions’ ongoing activities and missions’ operational environment, while taking into account the needs of the small peacekeeping missions and the unique nature of each mission, and to present these options to the General Assembly in a separate report at its eighty-second session;

Recalls paragraphs 73, 74, 75 and 76 of the report of the Advisory Committee, notes the integrated performance and budget report presented in 2026, and requests the Secretary-General to present, in future reports, essential elements of the results-based budgeting methodology, in all official languages, to ensure adequate transparency and accountability in the use of resources and ensure that the streamlining of documentation maintains the due level of clarity and high quality of information to be provided;

Notes the Secretary-General’s proposal for the establishment of the backstopping requirements for the United Nations Support Office in Haiti, further notes that “other staff costs” is not the appropriate budgetary modality for backstopping requirements under the support account, and requests the Secretary-General, where operational needs justify the creation of new posts and positions for backstopping, to ensure that posts and positions are properly established and justified, taking into consideration the permanent or transitory nature of such activities;

Decides to abolish one long-vacant P-3 post in the Office of Supply Chain Management in New York;

Takes note of paragraph 63 of the report of the Advisory Committee;

Decides to establish one P-4 post of Data Analyst in the Department of Peace Operations, to support the work of the Policy, Evaluation and Training Division, including the Comprehensive Planning and Performance Assessment System, to be based at the Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda;

Also decides to reclassify the two P-4 level posts of Support Officer in the Division for Special Activities of the Department of Operational Support as P-5 level posts of Senior Support Officer;

Further decides to further reduce resources by 884,300 United States dollars;

Budget performance for the period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025

Takes note of the budget performance of the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025;

Budget estimates for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027

Approves the support account requirements in the amount of 380,286,100 dollars for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027, inclusive of the amount of 19,870,200 dollars under enterprise resource planning, 477,500 dollars for death and disability claims for closed peacekeeping operations, 832,200 dollars for improved service delivery (previously the efficiency model for management services and the global service delivery model project), 4,651,400 dollars for peacekeeping capability readiness, 19,355,600 dollars for Umoja maintenance and support costs and 18,258,000 dollars for after-service health insurance costs, including 1,262 continuing posts and 22 new temporary posts, as well as the abolishment, redeployment, reassignment and reclassification of posts, 63 continuing and 10 new general temporary assistance positions and 32 person-months, as well as related post and non‑post requirements;

Financing of the support account for peacekeeping operations for the financial periods from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 and from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027

Decides that the requirements for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027 shall be financed as follows:

The amount of 6,958,200 dollars, representing the excess of the authorized level of the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2025, to be applied to the resources required for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027;

The balance of 373,327,900 dollars to be prorated among the budgets of the active peacekeeping operations for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027;

The estimated staff assessment income of 31,816,100 dollars for the financial period from 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027 to be offset against the balance referred to in subparagraph (b) above, to be prorated among the budgets of the individual active peacekeeping operations;

Also decides that the unencumbered balance in the amount of 4,810,400 dollars, in respect of the financial period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, shall be prorated and returned to individual peacekeeping missions in accordance with their original apportionment for the 2024/25 period;

Further decides that other revenue in the amount of 5,604,900 dollars, in respect of the financial period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, shall be prorated and returned to individual peacekeeping missions in accordance with their original apportionment for the 2024/25 period;

Decides that the increase in staff assessment income of 2,537,900 dollars, in respect of the financial period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, shall be prorated and returned to individual peacekeeping missions in accordance with their original apportionment for the 2024/25 period.

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