Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 A/RES/72/262 16. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to strengthen in-house capacity and expertise on the enterprise resource pla nning system and to develop, as a matter of priority, a detailed action plan to ensure the transfer of knowledge from consultants to programme and project staff, ensuring that knowledge acquired is maintained within the Organization and reducing dependency on and resource requirements for contractual services, which represent a large proportion of project costs, and to provide detailed information thereon in the context of his next report; 17. Notes the steps taken thus far to address gaps in training, stresses the importance of effective and high-quality training for the successful implementation of Umoja, requests the Secretary-General to ensure that senior managers adopt a comprehensive and sustained approach to training and capacity development in thei r work units and make certain that all users are properly trained before the deployment of any functionality of the project, and in this regard requests the Secretary -General to adopt appropriate qualitative and quantitative indicators of achievement to as sess the effectiveness of the training received; 18. Also notes the effort made to estimate, for the first time, the indirect costs and total cost of ownership of the project, and in this regard requests the Secretary General to submit to the General Assembly, at the main part of its seventy-third session, an updated business case for the Umoja project, and also requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to refine the estimates of the total cost of ownership of the project; 19. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to make every effort to eliminate cost overruns through efficiency measures and sound project management and to avoid any further upward revision of the budget during the remaining project schedule, up to the time at which Umoja is fully deployed; 20. Recalls paragraph 43 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and welcomes the proposals of the Secretary-General for the restructuring and gradual downsizing of the Umoja project team; 21. Decides to approve the establishment of seven posts (3 P-3, 3 P-2 and 1 General Service (Principal level)); 22. Also decides that the total project expenditure by 31 December 2018 should not exceed 516,738,500 dollars; 23. Approves the resource requirements of the project until 31 December 2019 in the amount of 62,062,600 dollars; 24. Also approves the amount of 9,309,400 dollars under the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019, representing the regular budget share for the Umoja project costs, and requests the Secretary-General to absorb 4,654,700 dollars of the regular budget share within the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019; 25. Notes that resource requirements in the amount of 28,859,100 dollars will be included in the subsequent requirements for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the financial period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019, and requirements in the amount of 9,619,700 dollars for the financial period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020; 26. Also notes that requirements in the amount of 14,274,400 dollars will be funded from extrabudgetary resources in the financial period from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019; XXII Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other 17-23363 21/27