In the area of Mutual Administrative Assistance, the WCO Council has recently adopted an international Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Customs Matters (Johannesburg Convention), which is now available for accession.

Administrative and financial implications of United Nations participation in the Programme

His own Department was providing technical assistance to both projects and unequivocally supported the judgement and decisions of the Department of Management.

MSAR should also ensure that victims of trafficking have access to crisis centres where they can receive assistance.

Thus in 1996 the Social Assistance Fund was established, providing the administrative and financial management of social assistance providers, as well as summarizing information about services provided.

Audits and evaluations will continue to help in identifying good management practices and those in need of improvement.

At the same time, donors' administrative costs, which are counted as official development assistance, also rose to 5 per cent of total official development assistance in 2002.

The internal management consulting function has become a credible consulting resource that programme managers may call upon for assistance in improving performance and managing change.

Management

Administrative bottlenecks

Deconcentration

Administrative Measures

Administrative costs

Management additional inputs and outputs

Administrative measures.

Administrative services

Administrative measures

Administrative data

Contribution made by the Department of Management to the improvement of management practices

The Committee commends MSAR for the establishment of a special unit within the Social Welfare Institute offering assistance to victims of domestic violence.

UNCTAD would continue its active support for the improvement not only of the managerial aspects of the work of the United Nations in the field but also of the substantive content of that work.

The increase in general temporary assistance is due primarily to the additional requirements for the Department of Management and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

(a) Management services

Report on the internal review of the activities of the secretariat

At that stage, however, stable recurrent funding must be ensured.

Management variances caused by management actions to achieve planned results more effectively (e.g., by reprioritizing or adding certain outputs) or efficiently (e.g., by taking measures to reduce personnel or operational inputs while maintaining the same level of outputs) and or from performance related issues (e.g., by having underestimated the costs or quantities of inputs required to produce a certain level of outputs, or by delayed recruitment)

E. Administrative issues

Draft conclusions proposed by the Chair

Electoral Assistance Section

Security Section

Administrative aspects

Administration Unit

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Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa

Results of the activities described above can be summarized as follows

Management reforms

Mission and

Programme Planning and Technical Cooperation Division

Poverty and development

Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General Asmara (3 posts)

Division of

Administrative Factors

By pooling financial resources into a single donor FCM, aid programs administrative costs could be kept low, the availability of aid flows could be assured, and poor countries would not have to negotiate 25 times in order to receive help.

China stated that requests for legal assistance to the Macao SAR would only be accepted by the Macao SAR in Chinese or Portuguese.

Agreement between the United Mexican States and Spain on mutual administrative assistance with a view to the prevention, investigation and suppression of customs fraud (8 February 1982)