UN-DESA's Capacity Development Office spends $1.294 Million in Meetings to "save forests"

THIS IS THE TRANSPARENCY

UN-DESA

PROMISES TO UN MEMBER STATES AND DONORS

AND

THIS IS THE REPORTING

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

WILL HAVE TO PROVIDE TO A REPUBLICAN PARLIAMENT

TO JUSTIFY $500,000 OF U.S. TAX PAYERS MONEY FOR MEETINGS TO SAVE FORESTS

IS THIS ACCEPTABLE REPORTING ?

As shown in a recent document from UN-DESA's Capacity Development Office, in its reporting to the ninth session of the UN's Forum on Forests, about $1.294 Million dollars were spent in meetings for an "ad-hoc expert group" on forestry and and for few other workshops.

What interesting is that almost half of the funds, about $500,000 (half a million) came from United States of America. But DESA's Capacity Development Office does not even try to comply with agreed format of programme or project reporting, and instead of providing full transparency of funds used by budget line, choses to report to the member states and to the Obama Administration with this budget: