Common Services and Premises

Capacity Building of the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), which subsequently became the United Nations Chief Executives' Board (CEB) for Coordination.

Programme H.2 Joint Buildings Management

Common services in Vienna Buildings Management Service

1.211 The structure of the Agency's Common Services is as follows

(a) The system of clusters established by the General Legal Division to facilitate communication with users of services should be supplemented with a list of the Division's lawyers, who will act as contacts for different programmes.

(iv) Substantive servicing of inter agency meetings Inter Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (16)

(c) Joint language training (UNOV) per enrolled staff

1.199 Common Services provide the appropriate supervision and support required by the Agency and its Programmes.

The common ground of reform is the need to re regulate the financial services industry.

RTS will be fundamental in monitoring the success of the Common Services Initiative.

The adoption of common services among agencies at the country level is accelerating.

The provision of common services to all special procedures mandates has increased, in particular with respect to the development of common work methodologies and the management of communications.

General description These two Programmes are presented jointly, since they share a common objective, outcomes, performance indicators and outputs.

(a) Overall administration and management provision of policy guidelines and coordination of the central common services

There are 27 common services experts and their team leaders, who will be contacting UNCTs to work for common services arrangements.

58 278. Report of the Joint Inspection Unit on common and joint services of United Nations system organizations at Vienna

(conference technicians and operating costs) 39.06 per cent

Joint high level session with WAIPA Attracting FDI in service clusters

The Common Services Expansion Programme aims at having United Nations staff in 130 countries using common services guidelines and a new results tracking system (RTS) by the end of 2005.

Substantive servicing of plenary meetings on matters related to inter agency affairs (1 meeting per year)

(h) Coordinating and servicing inter agency meetings, including regional coordination meetings, chaired by the Executive Secretary.

It is recalled in this connection that in its 1998 report on the United Nations system common services, which was endorsed by the General Assembly, JIU recommended the progressive establishment over a ten year period (2000 2010) of three common service centres at Geneva (UNOG, ILO WHO and ITU WIPO WMO).

The decreased expenditure in UNIDO's contribution to common buildings management by 1,124,900 mainly results from the reduction of subsidies to the catering operation and the withdrawal of 1,409,000 from the Buildings Management special account.

Major Programme H continues to incorporate two programmes, common buildings management and joint buildings management, which are largely distinguished by their source of funding, with the former being funded jointly by all VIC based organizations and the latter only by UNOV, UNIDO and CTBTO.

The following functions will be transferred from UNOTIL to United Nations agencies and will be carried out under the common services agreement.

1.200 Common Services comprises Commissioner General's Office, Legal Services, Audit and Inspection, External Relations, Public Information, Policy Analysis, New York and Geneva Liaison Offices, Administration and Human Resources, and Financial Services.

The joint OECD Eurostat Task Force on Services Prices in Short Term Statistics is preparing a guide for the compilation of producer price indices for services.

The United Nations Development Group Office and UNDP are jointly committed to work towards the identification and establishment of the proposed 20 joint offices by the end of 2007 (para. 258) and the roll out of the Common Services Management System (para.

27. Also decides to reduce further, by 3.2 million United States dollars, the proposed provision for restoration of common services

Substantive servicing of meetings contribution to Committee meetings on matters related to inter agency affairs (1 meeting per year)

The Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services has agreed to update the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services by 2009 in order to maintain its usefulness and relevance for countries.

Both Bangkok Port and Laem Chabang Port are in compliance with the Bio Terrorism Act of the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) and the International Ship and Port Facilities Security Code (ISPS Code) regarding the provision of training courses to officers concerned, risk assessment of port operations, decisions on port security plans and setting up of security staff.

UNICEF is encouraging its offices to participate in and provide leadership to common services as a way to save administrative costs at the field level.

Multi utilities provide certain benefits such as common billing and the option to cross subsidize water services with revenues from electricity sales, if permitted by law.

The fight against the causes of child mortality goes through a series of intersectoral actions in the areas of nutrition, education, sanitation, habitation and access to health services.

(f) Maintaining United Nations property and providing common service arrangements and management for ESCAP and other United Nations offices and agencies occupying the Commission's headquarters in Bangkok.

It also provides substantive and technical servicing to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Inter Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality.

These leader organizations and or common service entities, such as the International Computing Centre (ICC), could offer payroll services to those organizations interested in their specific solutions.

The adoption of a results based approach and the common services initiative were steps in the right direction, but greater harmonization and simplification were required.

United Nations system common services at Geneva, Part I overview of administrative cooperation and coordination (JIU REP 98 4 A 53 787).

Since its global roll out in November 2004, the common services programme has intervened in 44 of 130 targeted countries.

Substantive servicing of meetings of the Fifth Committee on matters related to inter agency affairs and the United Nations common system (on average 4 times per year)

1.68 Common Services The resource growth over 2004 2005 is attached to staffing for the psychosocial programme and guards increases to improve Agency security.

The Economic Commission for Africa, in the next United Nations country team and the next compound advisory meeting, will explore the possibility of establishing and managing more common services.