Original: english

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A/55/6
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
DATE: AUGUST 4, 2015

1. 
   The present document contains the Program Performance Report for 2014 (document WO/PBC/23/2), which was submitted to the WIPO Program and Budget Committee (PBC) at its twenty-third session (July 13 to 17, 2014).
   

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   The decisions of the PBC in respect of that document appear in the Decisions Taken by the Program and Budget Committee (document A/55/4).
   

[Document WO/PBC/23/2 follows]

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wo/pbc/23/2
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
DATE: JUNE 15, 2015

1. The Program Performance Report (PPR) for 2014 has been prepared in accordance with WIPO’s results-based management framework. The present report is based on the performance criteria established in the 2014/15 Program and Budget, as approved by the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO in December 2013 (publication No. 360E/PB14/15). The Report provides an assessment of progress made in 2014 towards achieving the expected results for the biennium 2014/15.

INTRODUCTION

1. 
   The Program Performance Report (PPR) is the principal accountability tool for reporting on organizational performance to Member States and an integral part of WIPO’s Results Based Management (RBM) framework. The Report also serves as an important learning tool ensuring that lessons from past performance are learned and duly incorporated into the future implementation of WIPO’s activities. The PPR is a self-assessment by Program Managers based on the results framework approved by Member States. To strengthen the validity of the information in the PPR, the Internal Oversight Division (IOD) carries out a validation of the performance data on a biennial basis. The next validation exercise will be conducted for the PPR 2014/15. For the first time in 2014, the assessment of the implementation of the Development Agenda (DA) has been mainstreamed and therefore integrated into the Overview of Progress, as opposed to addressed in a separate section.
   

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   The PPR 2014 is a mid-biennium report, focusing on the progress made towards achieving the Expected Results (as opposed to the end-biennium report which focuses on the extent to which Expected Results were achieved), measured by the Performance Indicators and with the resources approved in the Program and Budget 2014/15. A performance indicator could be measured by more than one target. In such cases, the rating for each target is provided, resulting in multiple ratings. The following assessment criteria have been used for the PPR 2014:
   

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   Key to Traffic Light System (TLS):
   

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  On track is applied when progress towards achievement of the target is 40 per cent or more;
  
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  Not on track is applied when progress towards achievement of the target is less than 40 per cent;
  
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  N/A 2014 is applied when performance data is not available for 2014 but is expected to be available at the end of the biennium;
  
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  Not Assessable¹ is applied when assessment of the performance is not feasible due to target data not having been adequately defined, when a baseline is not available or when the performance data is insufficient to determine the TLS, and;
  
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  Discontinued is applied when a performance indicator is no longer used to measure the performance of the Program.
  

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   Of a total of 358 performance indicator ratings in the Program and Budget 2014/15, 254 have been assessed as “On track”, or 71 per cent. Performance on a total of 56 indicator ratings, or 16 per cent, were assessed to be “Not on track”, and 27 indicator ratings, or about eight per cent, were assessed to be “N/A 2014”. Some 17 indicator ratings, or five per cent, were “Not Assessable”, and four indicator ratings, or one per cent, were “Discontinued”.