Office for Project Services

1994 284 Office for Project Services 26 July 1994 IV

V. OFFICE FOR PROJECT SERVICES . 115 120 29

C. Office for Project Services . 39 44 28

H. Office for Project Services (OPS)

7. Office for Project Services

Office for Project Services See chap. IV, para. 23.

Total OPS

III. OPS AS EXECUTING AGENCY

C. Office for Project Services . 236 92

Decision 94 12.

H. Office for Project Services (OPS) . 37 38 11

United Nations Development Programme Office for Project Services (UNDP OPS)

Taken from Ministry of Health PAHO WHO.

II. UNDP OPS AS ASSOCIATED AGENCY

(e) The responsibility of the Office for Project Services in personnel matters

OPS will therefore require processing services located in the regional service centre.

Determining UNOPS service locations Designing and implementing business processes Determining updating operating policies Designing and implementing the ICT architecture (application, information and technical) Implementing the human capital model (e.g., roles and responsibilities, competencies, culture, and metrics).

In project personnel matters, OPS will continue to perform the following tasks

I. UNOPS response to the United Nations Board of Auditors

II. ARRANGEMENTS FOR UNITED NATIONS OPS TO HAVE THE

VII. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF CENTRAL SERVICES TO

This includes the application of projected inflation to the Office for Project Services.

Table 10 provides comprehensive information regarding OPS staffing.

One member also noted the continuing need to monitor the Office for Project Services.

The Office for Project Services (OPS) disagrees that the level of fees are low.

(a) The precise role and composition of the Office for Project Services Users Advisory Group

5. The task force apos s clarification of the semi autonomous status of OPS and the agreement on basic authorities through which OPS will function will help ensure the preservation of OPS flexibility and efficiency in the coming years.

Clients appreciate UNOPS speed, transparency and cost effectiveness.

As a result, UNOPS no longer uses the inter office voucher account.

IV. DEVELOPMENT OF UNITED NATIONS OPS COLLABORATION WITH

Table IV.3. Office for Project Services revised

(b) The interests of the programmes and projects implemented by UNOPS

(a) The Office for Project Services must have the maximum possible degree of autonomy

The OPS suppliers apos roster contains about 2,500 suppliers.

VII. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF CENTRAL SERVICES

The transfer of those functions to OPS will be accompanied by the transfer of the necessary resources.

OPS has already issued instructions to project officers concerning the setting of realistic target delivery dates in their requisitions.

117. OPS continued to follow a strategy of consolidation and manageable growth through, among other things, its Project Acceptance Policy, which encourages early consultation with OPS once the Office has been designated as implementing agency.

Resident representatives will continue to monitor and report on the performance of United Nations OPS to the UNDP Administrator and the Under Secretary General, DDSMS, and Chairman of the OPS Management Board.

The Under Secretary General is also Chairman of the OPS Management Board established by the Secretary General to assist him in providing policy and management direction in the functioning of OPS. Staff costs

The movement of the Office does not, in the Advisory Committee apos s view, change that position.

UNDP OPS continued irrigation rehabilitation activities.

(d) Adoption of adequate personnel administration arrangements for United Nations OPS

Staff currently on secondment to UNDP OPS from other agencies