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Use of international contractual personnel

Employment of retired former staff

VII. USE OF INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTUAL PERSONNEL

International contractual personnel should be used

Use of civilian personnel in peace keeping operations

Placing an emphasis on automated, computer based systems for procurement and revenue collection will go a long way to limit corruption.

Use of international contractual personnel (see A 48 707).

Use of international contractual personnel (see A 48 707)

The report of the Secretary General on the use of civilian personnel in peace keeping operations also contains proposals to utilize such contractual staff in future operations and recommendations for the legal framework within which they would continue to be employed.

This is facilitated by personnel policies that encourage private consultancy and personnel exchanges between public institutions and private firms.

40. UNHCR agrees that, in principle, engagement of staff for the regular work of UNHCR should be limited to the authorized level of posts and that effective staffing control should be exercised.

39. In future, engagement of personnel for the regular work of UNHCR should be limited to the authorized level of posts and effective staffing control should be exercised.

IFAD projects in Jordan (2002) have included the training of staff in the use of cooperative management approaches.

Prudent steps, such as the use of redeployment to cover projected staff increases in growth areas, will give confidence to the donors.

The report of the Secretary General on greater use of national staff in field missions (A 58 765) described the evolution of the use of national staff, including at the Professional level, in peace operations.

Her delegation also supported the Advisory Committee's recommendation that the use of local staff should be increased.

(c) In accordance with principle 1 of the Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Governments and law enforcement agencies shall adopt and implement rules and regulations on the use of force and small arms against persons by State officials.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to review the matter of project personnel arrangements and to issue an instruction to ensure the compliance of the deployment schemes with the above mentioned instruction on staff employment.

The Advisory Committee urges the mission to review its inventory management practice and to encourage careful use of assets by civilian and military personnel so that United Nations owned equipment can be utilized to its full life expectancy.

The use of military tribunals should be limited to trials of military personnel for acts committed in the course of military actions.

The new facilities could be used for training, short term staff accommodation, strategic deployment stocks storage and other purposes.

Would you mind, Baines, putting a notice on the front door... telling the clerks to use the empty office next to the visa section next door.

Recent experimentation with the use of international contractual personnel, as described in the report of the Secretary General on the use of civilian personnel in peace keeping operations (A 48 707), represents an innovative approach towards alleviation of the shortage in civilian personnel in existing as well as in future field operations.

1. Notes with concern the continuous trend of hiring staff retirees for extended periods of time

As a consequence, there were significant savings in time for both staff and refugees and the Agency would be able to make fuller use of this data for programme planning.

There has been extensive staff training in the use of the databases and the other systems, both at headquarters and in the field offices.

A new programme handbook, designed to guide staff in using the gender analytic framework in their daily work, has been made available.

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

(c) When the use of force is unavoidable, State officials shall identify themselves as such and give a clear warning, either verbal or visual, before resorting to the use of force.

In addition, the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) needed to review, as a matter of priority, archaic limitations on the use of national officers.

(e) Consistent with principle 4 of the Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, State officials, in carrying out their duty, shall, as far as possible, apply non violent means before resorting to the use of force and firearms.

It applauded the increased use of national staff, but a larger number of offices should not necessarily be accompanied by a proliferation of civilian personnel.

47. The Secretary General has submitted a report on the use of civilian personnel in peace keeping operations (A 48 707), section VII of which is devoted to the question of the use of international contractual personnel including the pilot project in UNPROFOR.

(e) The Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials

(b) Use of agency technical staff to provide services versus consultants recruited from external sources.

15. Requests the Secretary General to take the steps necessary to ensure that mobility is not used as an instrument of coercion against staff and to ensure that appropriate monitoring and accountability measures are in place

This proposal relates, as discussed in paragraph 30 above, to the increased usage of local staff who are engaged to compensate for the deployment of international staff to other missions.

Information on current practices and measures to prevent the use of torture by law enforcement officials would be appreciated.

(qq) Report of the Secretary General on the greater use of national staff in field missions (A 58 765)

Such personnel would be engaged under contractual arrangements at fixed monthly costs and would consist of up to a total of 85 persons.

The paramount consideration in the employment of staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity.

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