GRID-Arendal Programme Cooperation Agreement 2014

All staff rates have been recalculated and increased for 2015. There are two categories of staff hourly rate with ‘Expert’ set at NOK 950 and ‘Junior Expert’ set at NOK 750. The average increase in staff hourly rate between 2014 and 2015 is 9.9%. The project overhead rate on ‘Travel and Other Expenses’ has also increased from 13% to 15% during the same period. The principle of fixed consultants who have been charged close to full overheads like ordinary staff is replaced by a fixed mark up of 30% on all subcontractors. Exceptions are

made for GEF and a few other projects, where there is no mark-up for partners’ funding. All subcontracts are based on either partnering or tendering. Figure 4 shows how the Programmes create their share of the total Contribution Margin of MNOK 17.2 to cover costs for admin hours, fixed overhead costs (admin) and the budgeted surplus for 2015. This amount consists of contributions from staff overheads (MNOK 13.4), subcontractor mark ups (MNOK 2.7, travel overheads (MNOK 0.5) and other expenses overheads (MNOK 0.6).

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4 000 Break Down of the Programmes part of the overall MNOK 17.2 ContribuAon Margin (KNOK)

3 500

3 000

2 500

2 000

1 500

1 000

500

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Polar and Mountain Environments

State of Environment Repor+ng

Marine and Coastal Resources

Communi-­‐ ca+ons

Environmental Crime

Transboundary Waters

Green Economy

Marine Spa+al Planning

Blue Carbon

Contribu+on margin Other Expenses

8

73 89

260 162

170

23 39

31 20 23

4

15 70

30 59

Contribu+on margin Travel

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26

29

Contribu+on margin Subcontractors

41

585

1 291 1 917

479

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3

167

133

Contribu+on margin Staff

785

2 700

1 542

1 678

963

948

1 482

1 335

Figure 4: Programme contribution margin

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