No additional services will be provided by the secretariat.

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(viii) Identify appropriate key performance indicators for the performance management of external audit services

(f) The strategy to continuously benchmark the performance of OIOS against other such service providers.

Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation

In future, performance bonds would be required from all contractors providing air services.

To add value to and improve UNIDO's operations by examining and assessing the Organization's activities in an independent and objective manner.

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As regards conference servicing requirements, a review of overall conference serving requirements has been carried out to identify any possible additional absorption capacity.

Add an expected accomplishment (c), reading (c) Improvement of conference service performance in New York and all other duty stations .

These were offers of additional materials or services that were considered by UNHCR to be complementary to programmed activities and in line with its mandate.

UNOPS will actively pursue additional partnerships with the full range of United Nations entities.

OIOS closed seven additional cases that had been previously investigated and the results brought to the attention of MONUC administrators.

(c) The State encourages the provision of additional social services to enable parents to combine the fulfillment of family responsibilities with their job and with participation in public life.

Any additional resources as may be necessary for conference servicing of the Peacebuilding Commission should be reported in the first performance report.

These are offers of additional materials or services that are considered by UNHCR to be complementary to programmed activities and in line with the mandate of the organization.

Hence, no additional resources would be required for the high level meeting, as conference services are provided for meetings of the Assembly throughout the year.

Comment by the Administration. The Office of Internal Oversight Services is of the view that more training can only be undertaken if additional funds are made available.

Measures have also been proposed for strengthening the administration of justice services capacity at the United Nations Office at Nairobi by providing additional temporary assistance resources ( 106,900).

(a) Additional requirement of 235,000 under consultants, to be included in requirements for the Office of Internal Oversight Services in the support account for the period 2005 06

Five additional cases were initiated in the parallel period regarding the publication of prostitution services by a non minor, and two other cases involving a minor.

Additional resources would also be required from Programmes requesting ad hoc evaluations in order to enable OIOS to respond adequately.

(b) Additional requirement of 231,600 under official travel, to be included in requirements for the Office of Internal Oversight Services in the support account for the period 2005 06.

Comment by the Administration. The Office of Internal Oversight Services has intensified its monitoring of the audit workplan, with meetings being convened weekly to review the progress of assignments in accordance with the plan.

IAPSO, currently the most advanced entity in e procurement, reports that all its procurement functions are carried out using electronic methods and all purchase orders are issued in its UNWebBuy e commerce application.

Add Ins can be developed using the Windows Home Server SDK, to provide additional services to the client computers or work with the data already on the server.

The additional one week pre session working group meeting to be held following each of the additional three week sessions would require interpretation services in English, French and Spanish only.

A further three thematic evaluations (on computer based training, the Global Assessment Programme on Drug Abuse and the impact of support services on programme delivery) are being undertaken in 2005.

Paragraph 18 of the budget proposal details the proposal for the redeployment of 20 posts paragraph 19 details the redeployment of 11 additional posts to the Information Technology Services Section of the Division of Administration, in response to recommendations made by the Office of Internal Oversight Services.

Comment by the Administration. The Office of Human Resources Management, in close coordination with the Information Technology Services Division, is reviewing the feasibility of introducing additional automated controls, including those suggested by the Board.

OIOS seeks regular feedback from managers on their satisfaction with the audit services provided and on potential areas for further improvement.

Additional resources of 10,400 would also be required under section 28D, Office of Central Support Services, of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007.

However, the Board recognizes the concerns expressed regarding the impact on system performance and will therefore follow up this matter during its next audit of UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS.

Only hours in excess of normal working hours that were actually spent fighting fires or carrying out other specific duties of firemen could be considered to constitute overtime.

Procurement Services should identify priorities for the guidance and training of its staff members in a structured manner, for example, based on the outcomes of their performance evaluations, and with reference to the organisation's procurement requirements and the Service's performance.

Farmers can also apply for financial support for partial compensation of the expenses for farm relief services to hire farm relief employees to relieve the agricultural producers of their duties during a vacation for up to 28 days.

Resources will be used to develop comprehensive packages of integrated technical cooperation services and, in view of the limited availability of these freely programmable funds, will be used strategically as seed money with a view to encouraging the mobilization of additional resources.

Notwithstanding economies of scale arising out of the integration of security services within the Department of Safety and Security, considerable additional expenditures are likely to arise from enhanced essential training standards as well as recruitment, early retirement and mobility policies.

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Should the draft resolution be adopted, it would entail one additional three week session in each year of the 2006 2007 biennium, which would require interpretation services in the six official languages.

However, should the high level meeting be held as meetings of the General Assembly, no additional resources would be required, as conference services are provided for meetings of the General Assembly throughout the year.

As recommended by OIOS in document A 59 133, four additional task forces were established in January 2005, on information technology, meeting servicing, examinations and training and documentation.