Secondments, transfers, rotations and identification of training needs for the purposes of building capacity and preparing staff members for future progression and smooth succession planning within the Agency are essential and applicable to both Area and international Staff.

Upon request the Committee was provided with the distribution of international and national human rights staff across the regional offices.

Capacity building requires tools and techniques that can build the ability of public officials to understand their own context and to achieve higher self awareness of innovation possibilities and constraints within their organization.

The resources were applied in personnel capacity building, production of educational and instructional material, organization of events to divulge the services and establishing an assistance network.

Staff master plan is to raise the level of training of personnel in the field of nursing and re construction of new health centers across the province.

The Group welcomed the increased use of national staff in MONUC, which contributed to capacity building and to the transfer of know how.

It hoped that progress towards the medium and long term targets for recruiting and training national staff, as a key capacity building step, would continue.

The Ministry of Justice has commenced the second stage of the process, which requires merit based recruitment of all Ministry staff under the newly revised structure.

Capacity building of the PPAF will support operating costs, staff training, technical assistance for various studies and cost of fixed assets. The Fund has a special focus on women.

We should recall the actions taken by the Sixth Committee, also soon to be noted in this Hall, on the protection of personnel in peacebuilding situations.

The international training programme on peacebuilding and good governance for African civilian personnel and correctional officers involved in United Nations peacekeeping operations

(d) Develop better access to all staff members and expand the coverage outside Headquarters in order to insure a truly Secretariat wide conflict resolution system

(a) On behalf of the Secretary General, the review of administrative decisions upon the request of individual staff members who believe that their terms of appointment were not observed when those decisions were taken.

The Dutch Tax Administration and the Employee Insurance Administration Agency (UWV) determine whether an employment relationship does or does not exist on the basis of joint policy rules.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Political Affairs have agreed to provide capacity building support through a staff exchange programme with African regional organizations.

Responsible for overall administration of personnel programme, including staff planning, staffing, classification, staff relations, appointments, promotions, separations, assignments, staff development and travel of all staff.

We would therefore like to stress that continuous capacity building on gender analysis skills both for staff and for stakeholders is crucial for successful implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).

UNIFEM invested significantly in the rollout of the Atlas system in 2004 and will continue to build staff capacity and develop systems so that the investment in Atlas results in the cost effective timely and coherent delivery of development assistance.

He agreed with the Secretary General on the need to build institutional capacity in country offices, promote training of staff at all levels and streamline guidelines for partnerships.

The Russian Federation was in favour of using the term peacebuilding to define the wide range of activities of personnel to whom the legal protection regime of the Convention would be extended under the draft protocol.

The request for increased funding for staff training was unconvincing.

Mobility

Obligations of staff members

and Information Technology Unit

Staff security

Europe s academics, senior civil servants, business executives, and trade unionists must work together to build a project that expresses a new frontier for Europe.

One P 3 to assess staff training needs and support the organization of staff training

Recruitment and staffing

Total, international staff 38 8 46

Personnel Unit

1 P 4, 1 P 2 1, 10 FS, 2 GS OL, 12 NS, 5 UNV

Staffing and budget

Civilian staffing

1 GS (OL),

D. Staffing table

of the Secretary General

Staff costs account for 64 per cent of the regular budget, of which 60 per cent represents the cost of area staff and four per cent represents the cost of international staff.

The recommendation for the selection of staff against these positions will be subject to the review of the OHCHR internal Advisory Panel on Personnel Issues (APPI) to ensure a fair and transparent staff selection mechanism.

Three additional P 4 posts (one each to deal with the issues of peacebuilding, terrorism and democracy) to augment the existing staffing of the Policy Planning Unit and enhance its policy coordination and policy development capacity

The Office of the Chief Executive Officer comprises the Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Legal Officer, the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, and conference support and administrative staff.

It is expected that this division, once staffed and fully operational, will embark on systematic staff development and succession planning programmes.

The recruitment of additional personnel is well under way and the selection process will conclude in July.

As a result of the suspension, competition for staff among departments had been intense and staff turnover had been high.

Expects that the reform measures to be instituted will enable UNOPS to return to sustainable financial viability, to rebuild the Operational Reserve, and to meet its statutory obligations as regards staff post service benefits etc

For their part, agencies need to build institutional accountability, develop capacities at all levels of staff, perform gender audits and gender responsive budgeting and develop base line data and means for tracking change.