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.

The Executive Board invites the Administrator to designate UNV as manager of Transfer Of Knowledge Through Expatriates National Initiative in addition to United Nations International Short-term Advisory Resource Programme, which has already merged with the United Nations Volunteers.

The GC notes the important role of UNV in humanitarian assistance.

The Governing Council welcomes, with due regard to the role of the United Nations Volunteers in development cooperation, its strengthened involvement in the humanitarian relief area and in related fields, ranging from capacity-building in disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation to rehabilitation and reconstruction activities, working with the relevant United Nations bodies and international organizations.

Budget estimates for the Biennium 1992-1993 - Requests the Administrator to consider streamlining the administrative functions of the United Nations Volunteers programme, in particular through further decentralization of routine declslon-maklng authority to the field, with a vlew to achieving an overall reduction of administrative staff, particularly support staff, at United Nations Volunteers headquarters.