proposed programme budget. Thecapacity ofthesetwounitsissufficient tohandle approximately 70percentoftheCommission's needsJfortheremaining 30percent, theCommission resorts toexternal data~processing services (para.12.99ofthe proposed programme budget). 12.19Inparagraph 12.10above,theAdvisory Committee hasrecommended areduction of$12,500. Ittherefore recommends anestimate of$48,993,800 forsection 12. Reduction recommended $ 1 I.Section 12.Economic Commission forLatin America andtheCaribbean -84-12500 i .JI .1.. ...' Section 13.Economic Commission forAfrica hasnotbeen underrental introduction 12.102of ewas Estimate sUbmitted bytheSecretary-General •••••••••••••••$ 51829400 13.2Extrabudgetary resources for1986-1987 areestimated at$20,479,200, comprising ~1,836,500 forservices insupport ofextrabudgetary programmes, $621,900 forsUbstantive activities and$18,020,800 foroperational projects (table13.1(2». 13.4TheSecretarY-Generalis staffing proposals for1986-1987 alsoinclude requests forninereclassifications, fourofwhicharedown-gradings andfive up-gradings. Thefollowing tableshowsthesechanges andthosementioned inthe preceding paragraph:13.1Theestimate of$51,829,400 forsection 13is$5,471,300, or11.8percent, higherthantherevised 1984-1985 appropriations. Resource growthisestimated at $597,900 (atrevised 1985rates), therateofrealgrowthhasbeencalculated at 1.6percent(table13.1)." I , ,~!',I ':;'; I"i I f i,I !~l !It ,: .,,!376194004635810051829400 46312 300.......................... .......................... Actualexpenses 1982-1983 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Revised appropriations 1984-1985 Initial appropriations 1984-1985Estimate recommended bytheAdvisory Committee •••••••••••• 13.3Thenetresource growthof$597,900 (atrevised 1985rates)isprimarily attributable toincreases underestablished andtemporary postsandcommonstaff costs(table13.4). Inthisconnection, theAdvisory Committee notesthatfor 1986-1987 theSecretary-General proposes 626established postsforECA(223inthe Professional category andabove- 1USG,1D-2,18D-l,39P-5,58P-4,76P-3,and 30P-2/1-and403Locallevel), anincrease offourProfessional andfourLocal levelpostsover1984-1985. Ascanbeseenfromtable13.5,thetotalofregular budgettemporary postsremains unchanged atfour(2Professional and2Local level), however, thisexcludes onenon-recurrent P-5postbeingrequested for 1986-1987. TheAdvisory Committee's observations onnon-recurrent temporary posts arecontained inchapterI,paragraphs 44and45above. Thenumberof 51extrabudgetary postsproposed for1986-1987 showsadecrease of27fromthe totalfor1984-1985.$ ,2500yCommittee Iareduction :tion12.ipbetween lanceof iprogramme lara.ll.99 'nera1 .8giving 12ofthe !nttohandle 30percent, 19ofthe -85-/::1- '~_,.I.13.15513.109 13.14913.62 13.913.132 13.141 13.8613.47 13.4913.8 13.29 Paragraph reference inproposed programme budgetParagraph reference inproposed programme budget -86-Newpostsfprogramme Rec1assifications/programme Conference servicesEnvironment Statistics1P-4post Executive direction andmanagement 1P-4toP-31P-4 TranSport, communications andtourism inAfrica 1P-5toP-4 1P-3toP-4 1P-4toP-5Socialdevalopment 1P-4post(women's programme) and1LocallevelMarineaffairs population 1P-4toP-3Development issuesandpolicies 2Locallevel(MULPOCs)Executive direction andmanagement 1temporary non-recurrent P-5post(Senior evaluation officer) International tradeanddevelopment finance 1P-3toP-4Development issuesandpolicies 1P-4toP-5 1P-3toP-4 1P-4toP-31P-5and 1Locallevel , 4-\.einproposed budget 1 inproposed udget13.5Onthebasisofinformation provided toit,theAdvisory Committee recommends acceptance oftheproposed reclassifications. 13.6TheAdviaory Committee notesfrom parag~aph 13.8oftheproposed programme budgetthat,afteratransitional period, theevaluation functions ofthetemporary non-recurrent P-5postwillbecarried outbythestaffofECA.Inconsidering thisrequest, theAdvisory Committee tookinto.account thefunctions ofexisting staffinthePolicyandProgramme Co-ordination OfficeatECA.Onthebasisofthe