Staff resources

Strengthening human resource management and staff learning

(308 posts) 1 P 5, 3 P 4 (1 P 4d),

The adequacy of resources and staffing level is a management issue, not a financial one.

(b) Re balancing office structures and staffing profiles for future needs and utilizing available resources to maximize results

In areas such as personnel, the most important prerequisite of reform was greater flexibility in the reallocation of existing resources.

Staff development activities have also been expanded and the Career Resource Centre, which opened in the third quarter of 2004, will offer formal and informal training to all staff.

Nevertheless, human resources still had no formalized process description with regard to new staff arrivals in or departures from the organization.

They will invest resources in training employees whom their competitors will exclude from the initial pool of recruits.

43. Also decides to reduce non post resources by 2 per cent, other than for travel of staff, contractual services and general operating expenses

Other delegations raised concerns about resource allocation and suggested the strengthening of staff capacities for child protection.

(c) Additional resource requirements of 324,700 dollars under section 35, Staff assessment, to be offset by an equivalent amount under income section 1, Income from staff assessment

It is foreseen that resources will be directed to training of staff in improving skills in monitoring and evaluation.

UNRWA states that the Area Personnel Section is in the process of developing applications to automate the processing of the Area Staff entitlements currently made manually outside the human resources management system.

Insufficient resources to cover the operational costs have hampered the effective functioning of the Centre and impacted on the staffing situation.

Support has also been provided to the police administration through the development of a new personnel database project, including the training of human resources to maintain the system.

UNHCR, as mentioned by the auditors, has improved its assets management and annual inventory checks despite very limited staff resources available for this task.

The OHCHR office in New York is a substantive outpost with limited staffing resources which, therefore, on several occasions require substantive expertise from headquarters in Geneva.

4. Praises the efforts made by the Office of the High Commissioner to accomplish its ever increasing tasks, in a wide range of areas, with the limited financial and personnel resources at its disposal

The report focuses in particular on areas of human resources management affecting staff that arise in the headquarters agreements.

The priorities of the Mission should determine resource management, with existing staff being reassigned to meet those priorities.

The resources were applied in personnel capacity building, production of educational and instructional material, organization of events to divulge the services and establishing an assistance network.

93. Welcomes the efforts of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean for more productive utilization of the allocated resources and the policy of recruiting national officers

The Secretary General indicates that staff resources under section 4 of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007 are fully occupied with its mandated activities.

b The Chief Executive Officer informed the group that the Office of Human Resources Management would consider reclassification of the post at the level requested.

(b) Human resources management recruitment and placement provision of staff administration and staff welfare services training career development and upgrading of substantive skills staff management relations, administration of justice resolution of disputes and conflicts provision of medical services and legal advice

These constraints have resulted in the freezing of three key senior staff posts and consequently reduced the availability of personnel resources for carrying out analytical work and advisory services.

JIU REP 2004 2, Review of the Headquarters agreements concluded by the organizations of the United Nations system human resources issues affecting staff.

Review of the headquarters agreements concluded by the organizations of the United Nations system human resources issues affecting staff (JIU REP 2004 2)

Staff awareness will be pursued in the context of an overall accountability awareness initiative being developed by the Inspector General's Office, the Division of Human Rresources Mmanagement, and the Controller's Office.

It will be noted that 45 country offices, four regional service centres subregional resource facilities (SURFs) and five headquarters units are engaged in building their staff and management capacities reviewing their portfolio of programmes and resource allocation and developing a gender mainstreaming strategy.

Ensured the implementation of the recommendations of the ARMS Report, including the preparation of Job Descriptions and recruitment of staff and procurement of resource requirements.

An integrated, web based roster of staff in both emergencies and regular settings will consolidate data on available staff resources, to provide better support during emergencies.

The Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC shall arrange for the provision of staff and services required for the servicing of the Executive Board from within available resources.

To realize this vision, resources will be needed in two main areas, training and technology, and a careful evaluation of information policy issues and staffing procedures will be an essential part of the planning process.

1.66 Health Programme The resource growth over 2004 2005 appropriations is attributed to staff requirements and increases in hospitalization costs, medical supplies and patient subsidies.

Almost all donor agreements have a time frame which UNITAR upholds to the extent possible, and there are no cases of non or late implementation due to lack of staff resources.

The Indian delegation noted with interest the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee in its report on resource allocation, staffing issues, the demand for supplementary posts and management of staffing tables, among other things, and it hoped that these would be analysed in detail during the official consultations.

1. Takes note of the views expressed by staff representatives in the Fifth Committee, stresses the importance of a meaningful dialogue on human resources management issues between staff and management, and calls upon both parties to intensify efforts to overcome differences and to resume the consultative process

In 2004, the Human Resources Management Service dispatched experts to field offices to provide training and support, as well as to listen to staff concerns, in the interest of integrating headquarters' and field perspectives.

Under non post objects of expenditure, resources relate to general temporary assistance, overtime, travel of staff and other operational costs, such as general operating expenses, supplies and materials and furniture and equipment.

For example, human resources staff is normally authorized to access employee records and this policy is usually formalized as access control rules in a computer system.

The Technical Secretariat will require citation in an UN report or list or, in the alternative, three separate sources of information to corroborate any concession holder's involvement in such activities or Encroachment into protected, private or other concession areas or having worked beyond the concession holder's allocated concession area or Holding a concession or taking over a concession through force or other non legal procedure.

Under non post objects of expenditure, the resources relate to general temporary assistance, overtime, consultants, travel of staff and other operational costs, such as general operating expenses, supplies and equipment.

Staff costs account for 64 per cent of the regular budget, of which 60 per cent represents the cost of area staff and four per cent represents the cost of international staff.