14.21 The Office of the Executive Director provides executive and support services to the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director, as well as to the senior management of UNEP.

Performance contracts between members of the Senior Management Team and the Executive Director are proposed for implementation in 2005.

Instead, I have decided to create a cabinet style decision making mechanism (with stronger executive powers than the present Senior Management Group) to improve both policy and management.

C. Senior Management Network

A. Senior Management Service

The Executive Director shall carry out his or her duties and take management decisions on a collegiate basis with the senior officials.

Experts should be drawn the field of candidates who have held senior management or executive positions that involve one or more of the following

Improving the performance of senior management

The Executive Director of UNIFEM and the Director of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) jointly chair the UNDP Senior Gender Task Force, and both are members of the Senior Management Team led by the Administrator.

Management and Professional levels, and Senior Executives.

Executive management and policy

Executive direction and management

There should be accountability at the highest levels for example, annual reporting to the Executive Board and gender mainstreaming should be included in the RCAs of senior management.

Executive management and policy (EDM)

For this reason, women rarely occupy senior management positions.

Also in mid 2004, the Executive Committee and the external auditors recommended that UNHCR commission an independent review of its senior management structure, to encompass issues raised by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Executive Committee.

Human resources executive direction and management

Human resources Executive direction and management

Human resources executive direction and management

a. Reclassification of two posts of Senior Information Management Officer

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Programme B.1 Executive Direction and Management

Presentations were made by the Executive Director of UNICEF, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the Associate Administrator of UNDP and the Senior Deputy Executive Director of WFP.

Table 1 Human resources executive direction and management

Table 21.8 Resource requirements Executive direction and management

Other members of senior management may attend Committee meetings by special invitation.

(a) Senior management needs to unequivocally emphasize self evaluation as a priority

The Office of the Chief Executive Officer comprises the Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Legal Officer, the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, and conference support and administrative staff.

Internally, mandatory retirements will soon cost the Agency 50 of its senior management.

Executive and management functions between Assembly sessions are discharged by the Executive Board, which is democratically elected.

In 1991, there were only 41.2 women per 100 men at senior management level.

The Advisory Committee met with the Executive Director and, via videoconference, with other senior officials of UNODC.

Two high level meetings were held, in Rome and Geneva, between the Assistant High Commissioner and the WFP Senior Deputy Executive Director and senior staff of the two organizations.

(b) One P 4 post for a Senior Officer (strategy and competitiveness) in the Office of the Executive Director to support, from the technical and operational perspectives, the expanding ITC programme in export strategy design and management (para.

2. Decides to establish five P 5 posts for Senior Revisers for conference management, Geneva

In depth reviews will be undertaken, followed by the development of recommendations to senior management.

The lack of a senior management layer at the D 2 level is acutely felt and strains the efficient management of the Office.

The International Olive Council shall have an Executive Secretariat comprising an Executive Director, senior officials and such staff as are required to perform the tasks arising from this Agreement.

(n) Review the risk management procedures together with OIOS and the United Nations Board of Auditors and executive management

5. Recognizes that measures to improve management capacity and performance among senior staff are highly desirable

The draft publications policy will be discussed with Bureaux and submitted to the Senior Management Committee.

Formation of a cadre of women for management positions in executive bodies

(b) Advising the Executive Secretary on administrative, management, security and organizational matters

Expenditures in the biennium 2004 2005 for the Executive management and policy 9

(g) Or an immediate family member is or has been within the last three years employed as an executive officer of a company where any of the United Nations present senior management served at the same time on that company's compensation committee