Meetings management

These include human resource management, financial management, meeting management, IT management, and project management.

The regional meetings were attended by disaster management officials from disaster prone and responding countries in the region.

1 To be held following the adjournment of the open ended consultations organized by the Department for Disarmament Affairs in the same conference room.

In addition to the informal intersessional meetings and meetings of the extended bureau of the Commission, briefings were held for the permanent missions on programme management reform and budgetary issues.

As most of the work of the Department results from and feeds into the meetings of intergovernmental bodies, meetings management can make or break the whole concept of conference management.

The Secretariat, through the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, has introduced new electronic signboards displaying official meetings information.

The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management has facilitated, through the meetings management system (e Meets), web based requests by permanent missions for Secretariat conference services.

Extensive agendas and the large number of meetings made it increasingly difficult to manage negotiations efficiently in the limited time available at sessions.

This would require strengthening the Department of Political Affairs through the establishment of a focal point which would plan and organize meetings between the United Nations and regional organizations.

Furthermore, it is anticipated that representatives of the Commission will participate in the meetings (1 meeting per year) of the technical working groups established by the governing bodies of the participating organizations.

In light of the interactive relationship between the meetings chain and the documentation chain, the Department has also been exploring ways to establish a linkage between the two. The UNOV system already incorporates both meetings and documentation requirements.

Support to meetings

Meetings

Meetings and presentations

of the Kimberley Process

Venues for photo opportunities in connection with bilateral meetings will be available close to the temporary meeting rooms.

The AOSIS member States will work closely at the national and regional levels with DESA for the convening of the regional meetings in 2005 and 2006.

I invite delegates to visit the Croatian National Youth Council booth near Conference Room 4 here at United Nations Headquarters to learn more about the Council's governance and activities.

In spite of the best efforts of the Department, it has to be recognized that meetings management is a highly volatile exercise and the results are far from satisfactory.

Meetings and publishing services

Meetings and sessions

General Meetings

Held the following

Meeting Seminars

C. Regular meetings

Periodicity of Committee meetings

Both long term calendar management and short term meetings programming are still heavily dependent on the decisions of the intergovernmental bodies and there is a limit to what the Department alone can do.

A Theory of Boardroom Justice

Soon political meetings were outlawed.

C. Meetings and reporting

Consultations and participation in meetings

Informal meetings

Record of the meeting

VIi.

J. Arrangements for bilateral meetings

International and regional meetings

UNICEF also attended the meetings.

In paragraph 92, the Board recommends that the Administration develop a system to record the actual expenditure associated with servicing reimbursable meetings and conferences serviced by the Department for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Management.

The meetings will be organized back to back with other meetings that are likely to be attended by high level representatives of countries organizations.

Team meetings with States in the margins of international meetings have proved particularly interesting as a result of their impromptu nature.

Organization of meetings and process support

Half of those meetings were formal.

International meetings attended

Meetings and consultations held by the Panel