The increase in the number of posts is due to the increase in peacekeeping activities.

Peacekeeping and crisis prevention are accepted functions of the UN.

B. Staffing requirements currently funded under the support account for peacekeeping operations

Decides that generic vacancy announcements posted in Galaxy should be accompanied by information on the location of current specific vacancies and that this would apply to all international vacancies in peacekeeping missions

(b) Staff appointed to peacekeeping posts, posts specifically funded for other field mission service or posts financed under the support account for peacekeeping operations

Additional ecological values should be conserved at a landscape level through decentralized multifunctional management systems.

In the case of positions located in the peacekeeping missions, mission specific salary and common staff cost percentage were applied to the estimates.

Decides that generic vacancy announcements posted in Galaxy should be accompanied by information on the location of current specific vacancies and that this would apply to all international vacancies in peacekeeping missions

233 (m)). The Committee notes that the functions of the vacant posts were performed through temporary assignment of staff from another peacekeeping mission and from New York.

Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to make every effort to fill vacant posts in peacekeeping operations expeditiously

71. Regrets the slow progress in recruitment for the posts approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 61 279 on strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to manage and sustain peacekeeping operations, and urges the Secretary General to fill the vacant posts as a matter of priority

Post Reclassifications Headquarters Professional Posts

The Committee expects that the vacancies in the Middle East office will be filled expeditiously in view of the audit coverage provided by this Office to the five missions in question.

In this connection, the Committee points out that all posts approved for peacekeeping missions are temporary in nature and the use of the term temporary posts to describe the resources now being requested should be avoided.

The increase is directly associated with the requirements for proposed new posts in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Office of Internal Oversight Services (rental of premises and office equipment and purchase of office supplies and furniture).

Decides that following the end of mandate of missions, mission specific posts in the Office of Operations of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations should be disestablished or redeployed and reflected accordingly in the next support account proposal

Growth creates jobs, and jobs reduce poverty.

Post structure

Functions

C. Functions

Requests the Secretary General to monitor the evolution of structures in individual peacekeeping operations to avoid the duplication of functions and an excessive proportion of higher grade posts, bearing in mind the mandates, complexities and specificities of each mission

Abuse of functions

Redeployment of posts

Executive direction and management

Table 9.5 Post requirements

Government occupations

Proposed functions

a Some of the extrabudgetary posts may not be available for the full biennium due to changing requirements of the funds and programmes for services rendered by the United Nations.

Table 28F.5 Post requirements

Resource requirements (before recosting) 129,100

Table 23.5 Post requirements

Table 13.4 Post requirements

Table 29.4 Post requirements

Table 1.9 Post requirements

Table 1.12 Post requirements

Table 1.18 Post requirements

Table 1.21 Post requirements

Table 1.23 Post requirements

Table 1.25 Post requirements

Table 1.27 Post requirements

Table 1.29 Post requirements

Table 1.32 Post requirements

Table 1.34 Post requirements

In accordance with the methodology proposed for funding of posts authorized from the support account for peace keeping operations, provision is made for 8.5 per cent of the total cost of salaries, common staff costs and travel costs of the civilian staff members in the Mission area.

Limited access to certain posts, especially decision making posts like those of prefect, deputy prefect, or department chief