The Junior Professional Officer programme

Women also make up all professional staff of the bank.

(vi) The Junior Professional Officers Fund covers financial activities aimed exclusively at the recruitment, training and development of young professionals sponsored by various Governments.

105. Encourages Member States participating in the Junior Professional Officer programme to increase sponsorship of Junior Professional Officers from developing countries

In the interests of continuity, all the professional staff hired by the previous administration had been retained.

a Includes national officers and national General Service staff.

The Section comprised five regular posts, as well as Junior Professional Officers.

General Service staff to support the Professional staff members will be provided by UNDP in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement.

UNICEF also brings a global staff cadre of over 200 professionals working in long term missions in more than 50 countries, and an additional team of professional advisors at the regional and global levels.

The Advisory Committee notes that numerous factors have an impact on General Service to Professional ratios, including technological innovations.

Educational and public information plans must be implemented, technical personnel must be trained, and alternative development and environmental conservation must be encouraged.

All the member states but one actively sponsored JPOs during 2004.

(d) Table 2 shows the expenditure, by region, under the Junior Professional Officers Fund, as well as the Fund balance at the end of 2004.

An active farmer's association is cooperating with government technical officers to increase production of green vegetables and reduce the island's food import bill.

To proactively fill identified gaps in the staffing profile, particularly in remote duty stations, the International Professional Roster was established and has attracted many applications.

I welcome the deployment of the United Nations liaison detachment teams to Basra and Erbil and look forward to the deployment of additional substantive staff.

(b) The second General Service (Other level) post will support the Professional staff in the new and evolving functions related to treasury activities.

A total of 21 governments and one inter governmental organization have valid agreements with UNDP for the provision of junior professional officers (JPOs).

Of the eight staff members recruited in 2004 and 2005 (excluding junior professional officers), 50 per cent were from North America and Europe and 50 per cent from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

The Government also developed Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines to facilitate the gender mainstreaming process by ministries, local government bodies and members of technical staff in their work programs.

Requests the High Commissioner to ensure that Junior Professional Officers are not given either sensitive political or core assignments where their impartiality may be questioned

Educational and training materials will be developed, targeting such various audiences as junior Professional officers of the United Nations system and national focal points for South South cooperation.

I'm so sorry, technicians.

Requests the High Commissioner to ensure that Junior Professional Officers are not given either sensitive political or core assignments where their impartiality may be questioned

The numbers of JPOs administered on behalf of UNFPA and UNOPS were 47 and 8 respectively.

The Assembly of States Parties must formulate more equitable criteria for the hiring of professional staff, as the present criteria, which are based on the United Nations model, leave a lot to be desired.

As Resident Magistrate based at Kabwe, Central Province of Zambia, I was in charge of all professional staff (magistrates and Local Court Justices), including all administrative support staff in the Province.

(i) Seek technical cooperation for the training of professional staff, including teachers, working with and for children with disabilities from, among others, UNICEF and WHO.

UNDP received a total of 32.9 million in contributions to the JPO programme in 2004, a slight increase over the amount received in 2003 ( 32.5 million).

The Advisory Committee's report included a discussion of the implications of the closure of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs office in Liberia, which was staffed with 32 Professional and 14 administrative personnel.

There are five FAO regional offices (Africa Accra, Ghana Asia and the Pacific Bangkok, Thailand Europe Rome, Italy Latin America and the Caribbean Santiago, Chile Near East Cairo, Egypt) and four Subregional Offices (North Africa Tunis, Tunisia South and East Africa Harare, Zimbabwe Caribbean Bridgetown, Barbadoes Eastern Europe Budapest, Hungary).

The Advisory Committee observes that the report of the Secretary General, which is based on a study implemented by consultants, does not contain a determination of whether or not current General Service to Professional ratios are too high.

The secretariat has only been able to maintain in 2004 2005 on a temporary, irregular basis the core professional staff resources that have enabled it to respond effectively to its mandate to provide intensified assistance to the Palestinian people.

New profile for security professionals

Accordingly, the published accounts show a total income for the biennium for the Technical Cooperation Trust Fund for Provision of Junior Professional Officers of 203,000 against total expenditure of US 40,000 (see statement VIII).

Most professional officers graduate from the Evelpidon Military Academy in Athens ( Στρατιωτική Σχολή Ευελπίδων ) and the Corps Officers Military Academy in Thessaloniki ( Στρατιωτική Σχολή Αξιωματικών Σωμάτων ), while the rest graduate from various Military Schools according to their specialization.

As indicated by the Director General's statement at the forty ninth General Conference of the Agency, there has been an increase in the number of member States from 77 to 98 represented among the professional staff, and the percentage of staff from developing countries has continued to grow.

The divergence of professional anthropology from medicine was never a complete split.

(iv) Implementation of managed reassignments of entry level Professional staff

10. Also requests the Secretary General to make concrete proposals, including the provision of additional core professional staff, to strengthen the programmes and activities of the Institute and to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

10. Also requests the Secretary General to make concrete proposals, including the provision of additional core professional staff, in order to strengthen the programmes and activities of the Institute and to report to the General Assembly at its fifty sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

The Committee recommends against establishment of the proposed new P 4 post. Some of the functions, including recruitment and deployment, are undertaken by the Administrative Support Division and others could be performed by existing Professional staff in the Section.

The combined number of JPOs and SARCs working with UNDP and affiliated agencies as of 31 December 2004 was 208, compared to 236 on 31 December 2003.

10. Also requests the Secretary General to make concrete proposals, including the provision of additional core professional staff, to strengthen the programmes and activities of the Institute and to report to the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

10. Also requests the Secretary General to make concrete proposals, including the provision of additional core professional staff, to strengthen the programmes and activities of the Institute and to report to the General Assembly at its sixty first session on the implementation of the present resolution.