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

Before 2000 it had six staff and its own operational budget.

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

Ministry of Defence, General Staff of the Estonian Defence Forces, Operational Headquarters

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

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

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.

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

Regular interaction at the senior and operational levels and joint donor meetings to guarantee uninterrupted food supplies continued throughout the year.

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.

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

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

Two P 5 posts, Senior Officers, Mediation Support Unit one for mediation training and the other for best practices and operational support

She also held numerous meetings with NATO, EUFOR and senior national officials of many countries to request their political and operational support.

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.

The Plan was widely distributed among United Nations staff by senior leadership, including in a message to all OHCHR staff sent by High Commissioner Mary Robinson in April 2002.

And finally, because I was well known in Connecticut, they decided they better have a meeting of the senior staff.

WFP continued to post a senior staff member to Washington to function as a representative to the Bretton Woods Institutions.

Two joint workshops on MOUs were held, in Accra and Cairo, to enhance field staff awareness regarding operational practices.

The reduction includes the related impact on operational and other non staff costs of the Committee's recommendations on posts.

5. Requests the Secretary General to have recourse to the employment of retired former staff only if the operational requirements of the Organization cannot be met by existing staff

Under this programme, an amount of US 2,533,000 was approved for the biennium 2004 2005 for staff related costs of five administrative staff and operational expenditures of the secretariat.

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

3. Requests the Secretary General to report to it at its sixty third session on staff development policy and the priority of staff development, taking into account the impact of the retirement of many senior staff in the near future

In 2003, following consultations with staff and Member States, UNODC launched new operational priorities as guidelines for the medium term.

Objective 1. Promote responsible and sustainable management by combining operational performance objectives, personal development for staff and attention to durability.

Women's under representation in academic staff, especially in senior ranks, has continued to draw attention since the submission of our previous report.

GFPs, preferably senior staff with gender expertise, should have clear job descriptions and performance indicators, matched with allocation of time and resources.

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

31. Requests the Secretary General to discontinue the practice of paying higher subsistence rates to middle and senior level United Nations staff members

The China Daily recently ran a front page story recounting how Paul Wolfowitz used threats and vulgarities to pressure senior World Bank staff.

The WASH team must include a senior team leader and a sufficient number of long term professional and support staff with appropriate qualifications.

In the case of UNMIL, a senior Procurement Officer was released in January 2004 followed by support staff in April and August 2004.

It is expected that this division, once staffed and fully operational, will embark on systematic staff development and succession planning programmes.

In 2003, the Office's Director and Special Adviser to the High Commissioner submitted thematic and operational priorities to the Senior Management Committee, based on the United Nations agenda.

Under this model, both UNMOs and the armed contingents fall under the operational authority of the FC and their operational planning and control is exercised through a single headquarters headed by a Chief of Staff.

The report can be dismissed as just the musings of two senior members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff writing in their personal capacity.

In 2001, 24 of the senior academic staff financed by the Council for Higher Education were women, a rise from 20 in 1992 93.

In terms of providing for nursing and care staff, much is being done to offer better career perspectives and improve promotion to senior positions.

OIOS believes that the issues of skills alignment among subregional office staff and the promotion of their operational expertise require immediate attention.

1.37 In spite of the heavy investment in staff training and development, programmes are finding it increasingly difficult to find staff for senior and mid level managerial positions due to uncompetitive salaries and conditions of service.

Ms. Russler (Department of Safety and Security) said that, should the Committee adopt the draft decision, the appointment of senior staff and, hence, the selection of candidates to fill Professional level posts would be delayed and the Department would not be fully operational until 1 January 2006, rather than 1 September 2005 as planned.

The Department had initially taken two steps in response to Member States' concerns it had inaugurated a new Senior Leadership Induction Programme and undertaken a review of the selection and appointment of senior staff in cooperation with United Nations partners.

(b) The postponement of a training course for senior managers in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations owing to difficulties in releasing sufficient staff at the senior level to attend, given the increased workload resulting from the surge in peacekeeping activities