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

Work on succession management moved into the implementation stage, making possible the more timely deployment of senior staff.

C. Senior Management Network

A. Senior Management Service

Managed the Criminal Law Section, including staff supervision, budget management and project development, and provided legal advice to senior management of the Secretariat, including the Secretary General

A further management mission was undertaken by a senior staff member in support of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).

UNICEF also finds that the UNSSC plans to launch a senior management network will also make better use of the Staff College.

Improving the performance of senior management

Management and Professional levels, and Senior Executives.

Staff management consultations

It was agreed that the process should be carried out in an incremental manner and through a participatory process, involving staff, senior management and Member States.

Senior management should ensure that there is gender expertise in their offices that staff are accountable, and that gender mainstreaming is a criterion in performance assessments.

CEB members have supported the institution of the Senior Management Network and have asked the United Nations System Staff College to develop a programme to implement it.

For this reason, women rarely occupy senior management positions.

The totally revamped departmental Intranet website launched in June 2005 provides the senior management with another effective and interactive tool of information and communication with the staff at large.

a. Reclassification of two posts of Senior Information Management Officer

(c) Maintaining staff management relations

Some gender expertise should be a requirement when recruiting new staff, especially programme staff, policy advisors and senior managers.

The Group had been encouraged to note that the priority and perspective conferred by senior management on training and staff development were generally in conformity with international best principles and practices.

All the senior staff got together, and I later found out what happened.

The accountability framework at the United Nations is based on a hierarchy headed by the General Assembly that flows through the Secretary General, senior managers and middle management to all other staff.

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

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

Strengthening human resource management and staff learning

The new posts include a Senior Conflict Management Officer at the P 5 level, an Information Advocacy and Outreach Officer at the P 3 level and two General Service (Other level) support staff.

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

Management teams seem increasingly disconnected from their staff.

UNICEF agrees and has taken steps to update the job descriptions of its senior staff.

The Working Group agreed that training should be offered to top management, senior managers and staff at large to enhance their understanding of the value and techniques of self evaluation (see annex, action item 15).

The post of Chief would be established at the D 1 level to allow the incumbent to have a dialogue at an appropriate level with senior management and to ensure the confidence of all staff.

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

Several Parties emphasized the importance of an appropriate geographical distribution among staff, especially in senior posts.

In paragraph 321, the Board recommended that UNICEF update the job descriptions of its senior staff.

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.

Objective 3. The redevelopment of the Section's procedures, training manuals and a case study library, which will all become an integrated part of the knowledge management system, will require substantial time from the senior and experienced staff.

Senior staff members serve as secretaries of the constituted bodies of mechanisms established under the Kyoto Protocol.

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.

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

Currently, at the senior management level in the Office, developing countries are well represented since four out of seven posts subject to geographical distribution at the D 1 level and above are encumbered by staff from developing countries.

The situation is similar in alternative institutions, where women make up only 25 of the senior academic staff.

Staff performance appraisals were reviewed by Management Review Groups, which made decisions on which staff to recommend for promotion.

Resource persons include senior scholars and practitioners of conflict resolution, special representatives of the Secretary General and special rapporteurs as well as senior staff from the United Nations and regional organizations.

In this connection, Indonesia welcomes the efforts of the United Nations specialized agencies that have put in place improved accountability systems to ensure that senior management and staff at all levels undertake efforts to achieve gender mainstreaming in their work.