High vacancy rates

(e) The experiment shall not exacerbate high vacancy rates in any budget sections

Vacancy rates and staffing

The Group of African States also found it unacceptable that vacancy rates, particularly in Africa, remained so high.

In fact, any savings realized as the result of high vacancy rates would have been returned to Member States.

As the Office of Internal Oversight Services stated, duty stations with high vacancy rates had scarcely benefited from it.

(d) Measures to ensure that such a policy will not have any negative impact on sections with high vacancy rates

Although the staffing proposals had been defended on the grounds that currently approved resources could accommodate them because vacancy rates were high, that reasoning neither excused poor budget practices, nor took account of the fact that savings generated by high vacancy rates must be returned to the Member States.

(c) Mobility has a positive impact in filling existing high vacancy rates at some United Nations duty stations and regional commissions

Nevertheless, the Tribunal will review the vacancy rates on a regular basis.

The proposed conversion of 395 interpreter translator individual contractor positions to national General Service posts could help to reduce the high vacancy rates in the Mission.

8. Requests the Secretary General to consider the use of incentives with a view to encouraging staff to move to duty stations with chronically high vacancy rates

The freeze has had a negative impact on efforts to reduce vacancy rates.

Schedule 8 of A 60 572 contains information on average vacancy rates by budget section.

17. Further requests the Secretary General to continue to consider the use of incentives with a view to encouraging staff to move to duty stations with chronically high vacancy rates

It is proposed that requirements for additional international and national staff be accommodated from within currently approved resources, in view of the prevailing high vacancy rates (see A 59 707, sect.

Moreover, as can be seen from the tables preceding paragraphs 14 and 19, savings are possible from the delayed deployment of civilian police and persistent high vacancy rates for civilian staff.

Ghana also wondered about the effect that the proposed global staff management (which meant exchanging posts between different budget sections) would have on sectors where the vacancy rates were regularly high.

The Committee acknowledges the efforts made to decrease the vacancy rates in ONUB during 2004 05.

The Committee commends ONUB for significantly decreasing its vacancy rates within a five month time period.

The Advisory Committee trusts that the mission will continue to monitor its civilian staff vacancy rates.

8. Decides also to approve 9.9 million dollars for realized vacancy rates in 2002 and to consider the actual realized vacancy rates for 2003 in the context of the second performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2002 2003

8. Expresses deep concern at the high vacancy rates in interpretation and translation services at the United Nations Office at Nairobi and especially the chronic difficulty in staffing the Arabic Interpretation Unit

The end July 2005 vacancy information reflects a General Service vacancy rate of 5.7 per cent, a rate which is still substantially higher than the rates for 2004 and prior years.

Moreover, the experiment should not be carried out on the basis of General Assembly resolutions calling for the implementation of decisions within existing resources, nor should it exacerbate high vacancy rates in any budget section.

Infant mortality rates remain high.

Such adjustments reflect, in particular, the fluctuations in vacancy rates and standard costs, inflation and exchange rates as compared with the assumptions used for establishing the approved budget.

Concerning United Nations Volunteers, the high vacancy rates are due to the fact that the recruitment of 120 electoral workers has been delayed until political decisions on the holding of the October 2005 elections are made.

A summary of posts, incumbency levels and vacancy rates as at 30 September 2005 is provided in the table below.

b In view of the prevailing vacancy rates, provision for additional personnel will be accommodated from within currently approved resources.

Consistently higher than standard vacancy rates have been experienced by the Office of the Prosecutor during the biennium 2004 2005.

The vacancy rate for professional posts at the Economic Commission for Africa was too high.

However, these high rates may be affected by increasing rates of detection.

This explains high economic growth rates.

Nonetheless, the mortality rates remain high.

In this connection, the Advisory Committee points out that the fact that additional staffing requirements may be accommodated within currently approved resources owing to high vacancy rates does not mean that the additional posts are without cost.

The Advisory Committee's recommendations with regard to the financing of MINURSO included a reduction related to budgeted vacancy delayed deployment rates.

Given the current low vacancy rates for Professional staff, there would not be a large number of posts available for redeployment.

The Peacekeeping Service undertook a number of audits, including of procurement, vacancy rates and the state of discipline at various missions.

Requirements for additional civilian police personnel are to be accommodated from within currently approved resources, in view of prevailing vacancy rates.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the Tribunal had made every effort to improve vacancy rates during the biennium 2004 2005.

The Committee also noted that the proposed vacancy rates for General Service for 2006 2007 anticipate the lifting of the suspension.

Unemployment and poverty rates are very high.

The Committee notes from the supplementary information that the vacancy rates of civilian personnel as at 31 August 2005 were as follows

A full listing of vacancy rates by section as of 31 July 2005 is reflected in the annex to the present document.