Definition of results based management and results based budgeting

(b) Results based management

B. Results based management

B. Results based management

(g) The production of a new document with the above adjustments, both at 2004 2005 and 2006 2007 cost levels, resulted in immaterial variations of a technical nature in items that were not directly affected by the above adjustments.

IADB also encouraged co management or self management of projects.

(d) Training of staff on the result based management methodology and implementation.

Adjustment of processes procedures practices (e.g. results based management budgeting, work process re engineering) ___________

Programme Component F.1.3 Partnerships with Organizations of the Private Sector and of

They will thus constitute the basis for determining future outcomes and performance indicators.

C. Sustainable farm management practices and conservation agriculture to foster carbon storage

Comment by the Administration. The Administration has strengthened the existing check and control function to avoid the occurrence of overexpenditures.

Regional offices provide support and oversight in the application of results based and performance management methods.

The Review led to a reaffirmation of the organization's commitment to instituting RBM.

Instead, they stressed the need for improved management, mobilization, and coordination of existing funds.

The process started with a senior management retreat in December 2004, exclusively devoted to RBM, which set in motion a comprehensive and participatory exercise aimed at ensuring a full and common methodological understanding of RBM, and providing clear definitions of RBM concepts, techniques and terminology.

Comment by the Administration. Management will continue to use information technology standards and existing governing processes to implement the recommendation.

It fosters a culture of transparency and accountability and of striving to improve the performance of UNIDO's activities.

General description The programme component is an integral part of UNIDO's continuous improvement process and organizational learning.

Representatives encouraged the full integration of result based management in the Office's policy and operational practices.

It is encouraging to note that the new guidelines take into account the principles of results based management.

It also responds to the particular importance that UNIDO's Member States attach to RBM as a management tool for improving organizational performance, enhancing transparency of reporting process and thus accountability.

It would also provide persons and groups with notice of the conduct that might result in their listing.

Posts may be kept vacant for six months, after which the hiring department or division should be notified by the Compensation and Management Services Division as to the need to fill the post or abolish it, unless there is strong justification for its remaining vacant for that long.

Preserving the status quo in both categories of membership would, in our view, only complicate existing problems.

The programme and budgets contained in this document follows the application of principles of results based management (RBM) for the first time in a comprehensive manner.

(a) The understanding of the concepts and RBM system will be strengthened through training, workshops and learning by doing .

(b) Major UNODC programming activities undertaken in line with the result based management approach.

Being the first biennial budget based on the concept of results based management, the Programme will continue to guide and collaborate with other programmes to strengthen and refine the concept and implementation, including measurement towards an improved application of the principles of results based management.

At the level of local authorities, UN Habitat supports the development of models for participatory governance structures.

The question is whether existing governance systems can coordinate effective intervention to counter the resulting tensions.

Comment by the Administration. UN Habitat has been implementing results based management since 2000, in full compliance with the guidelines of the Programme Planning and Budget Division at United Nations Headquarters.

Including ports on the article 75 list does not guarantee that suit will be filed in the port, but excluding ports from the article 75 list could make a suit in the port impossible.

The Department was also addressing shortcomings in technical security procedures, training and compliance tools.

One management expert summarizes recent studies as describing an increase in the use of more participative processes.

The overstretching of the Department also undermined its capacity to manage operations effectively, as was borne out by the shameful episode of sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel, which had seriously compromised the good name of the Organization.

On the contrary failure to build mutual trust now would only compound the already existing difficulties.

The challenge is to bridge wide gaps that exist between the theory and the practice of public administration.

The Member States and the External Auditor have positively commented upon the actions taken by the Secretariat in introducing RBM in the Organization.

Yet, internet based service is also a means of advancing and consolidating transparency and democracy into the overall practice of public administration.

Headquarters accountabilities include the improvement of systems, guidance and learning resources for results based management, drawing on lessons from the field.

Comment by the Administration. The financial investigator is in place and the in house investigations initiated in 2004 have been completed.

Saudi Arabia explains that it will not be able to adequately manage its existing protected areas with its own funds.

The Secretariat noted that, with the recent introduction of results based management, divisions would have objectives work plans that could be cascaded down to staff members as individual objectives.

The Committee expects the quality of information on the consolidated list to improve the additional efforts referred to above.