A/RES/57/280 (d) Size of the contingency fund expressed as a percentage of the overall level of resources; 3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget; 4. Further reaffirms that the budget proposals of the Secretary-General should reflect resource levels commensurate with mandates for their full, efficient and effective implementation; 5. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to submit, in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, the total amount of resources that he should have at his disposal, from all sources of financing, in order to implement fully all mandated programmes and activities; 6. Notes that the budget outline is a preliminary estimate of resources; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to include in the proposed budget outlines and in the proposed programme budget provisions for expenditures for special political missions related to peace and security expected to be extended or approved in the course of the biennium; 8. Also requests the Secretary-General to make appropriate provisions in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 to minimize adverse impacts on the provision of adequate conference services and other related services, in accordance with its resolutions 56/254 D and 56/287, drawing, inter alia, on the improvements made in the management of conference services; 9. Invites the Secretary-General to prepare his proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 on the basis of a preliminary estimate of 2,876 million United States dollars at revised 2002–2003 rates; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to resubmit the proposed information technology strategy in accordance with resolution 56/239 of 24 December 2001 during the resumed fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly; 11. Decides to consider in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, in addition to the preliminary estimate, a provision in the amount of 29.8 million dollars for information technology and common services facility infrastructure, bearing in mind the comments of the Secretary-General in paragraph 5 of his report;1 12. Decides also that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 shall contain provisions for recosting on the basis of the existing methodology; 13. Decides further that the priorities for the biennium 2004–2005 shall be the following: (a) Maintenance of international peace and security; (b) Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences; 2 (c) Development of Africa; (d) Promotion of human rights; (e) Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;