Vacancy factor (20 per cent)

High vacancy rates

The freeze has had a negative impact on efforts to reduce vacancy rates.

The overall vacancy rate in the Department was 3.8 per cent compared to a budgeted vacancy rate of 6.5 per cent.

Nevertheless, the Tribunal will review the vacancy rates on a regular basis.

The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 3.83 .

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Kamina

Tshikapa

Moreover, the persistent high vacancy rate makes it difficult to assess the needs for any particular organizational unit.

6. Notes with great concern the high vacancy rate in the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

(308 posts) 1 P 5, 3 P 4 (1 P 4d),

During the reporting period, the overall average vacancy in the office was 12.5 per cent.

In fact, any savings realized as the result of high vacancy rates would have been returned to Member States.

It therefore recommends that the vacancy delayed deployment rate be maintained at 10 per cent.

The increased requirement for Mission subsistence allowance derives from the lower average vacancy rate of 14.9 per cent compared to the 30 per cent vacancy factor applied to the calculation of Mission subsistence allowance costs.

The vacancy rate for professional posts at the Economic Commission for Africa was too high.

5. Notes with great concern that the high vacancy rate, particularly at the higher level of the administrative hierarchy, affects the effectiveness of the activities of the International Tribunal for Rwanda

Requirements for additional civilian police personnel are to be accommodated from within currently approved resources, in view of prevailing vacancy rates.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the Tribunal had made every effort to improve vacancy rates during the biennium 2004 2005.

Comment by the Administration. Efforts to reduce the vacancy rate are and should be ongoing without any particular time breaks.

A summary of posts, incumbency levels and vacancy rates as at 30 September 2005 is provided in the table below.

Schedule 8 of A 60 572 contains information on average vacancy rates by budget section.

The unspent balance of 30,000 relates to a higher than budgeted vacancy rate.

In paragraph 122 of the report, the Tribunal agreed with the Board's recommendation that it continue its efforts to reduce the vacancy rates, with special emphasis on the Office of the Prosecutor.

The Peacekeeping Service undertook a number of audits, including of procurement, vacancy rates and the state of discipline at various missions.

(b) any right or interest of the State in movable or immovable property arising by way of succession, gift or bona vacantia or

Mr. Elnaggar (Egypt) thanked the representatives of Nigeria and Cuba for confirming the requirement to distribute hard copies of vacancy announcements and requested a suspension of the meeting to permit his and other delegations to formulate a proposal on the matter.

The Committee notes a decrease in the vacancy rates in the Economic Commission for Africa, relative to those of at least two previous bienniums and welcomes the progress achieved by the Secretariat.

Ms. Udo (Nigeria) said that the relevant General Assembly resolutions provided that hard copies of vacancy announcements must be distributed to delegations which did not request otherwise.

17. Further requests the Secretary General to continue to consider the use of incentives with a view to encouraging staff to move to duty stations with chronically high vacancy rates

53. Reaffirms that the vacancy rate is a tool for budgetary calculations and should not be used to achieve budgetary savings

The Committee notes from the supplementary information that the vacancy rates of civilian personnel as at 31 August 2005 were as follows

The realized vacancy rate for the Professional category and above was 6.3 per cent, higher than the approved budgeted rate of 5.9 per cent, and the realized vacancy rate for the General Service category was 6.0 per cent, higher than the approved budgeted rate of 5.8 per cent (A 60 572, para.

Moreover, the experiment should not be carried out on the basis of General Assembly resolutions calling for the implementation of decisions within existing resources, nor should it exacerbate high vacancy rates in any budget section.

The Committee requests that consideration be given to adding information on average vacancy rates for the preceding biennium to data currently provided in schedule 8 of the performance report.

b Cost estimates for 2005 06 are inclusive of a 15 vacancy rate compared to an 8 vacancy rate applied in 2004 05.

108. Recalls paragraph 123 of its resolution 54 249, in which it requested the Secretary General to take the necessary measures, as a matter of priority, to achieve a vacancy rate of no more than 5 per cent

Ghana also wondered about the effect that the proposed global staff management (which meant exchanging posts between different budget sections) would have on sectors where the vacancy rates were regularly high.

While the application of a delayed deployment factor in respect of additional troops resulted in the overall reduction of requirements, in particular for troop costs, by approximately 5 per cent, the actual vacancy rate for the period was 0.6 per cent.

The actual vacancy rate as at 31 December 2004 being 14 per cent, the Advisory Committee is of the opinion that a change in the cost parameters for computing cost estimates is not warranted at this time.

An overall increase of 17,559,600 (34.6 per cent) in comparison with the apportionment for the current period is proposed under civilian personnel for the 2005 06 period, using the same vacancy rates applied for the current period.

c Cost estimates for 2005 06 are inclusive of a 5 vacancy rate compared to a 4 vacancy rate applied in 2004 05.

Concerning civilian personnel, the average vacancy rate for international staff, national staff and United Nations Volunteers was 32.8, 44.6 and 80.2 per cent, respectively.

It is proposed that requirements for additional international and national staff be accommodated from within currently approved resources, in view of the prevailing high vacancy rates (see A 59 707, sect.