The share of staff from Eastern Europe and NIS amounts to 11 per cent.

The Advisory Committee notes that numerous factors have an impact on General Service to Professional ratios, including technological innovations.

A recent survey said that 27 percent of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their firm.

It is projected to be slightly higher in 2005, at 11.9 per cent, with 15.6 per cent for staff in the Professional and higher categories and 9.4 per cent for staff in the General Service and related categories.

The staff gender distribution was 67 per cent male and 33 per cent female.

Moreover, 7.2 of women employees and 2.2 of men employees are employed part time.

We are extremely concerned to note that, of the professional staff, an overwhelming 70 per cent come from Western countries, with only 12 per cent from Africa and a paltry 3 per cent from Asia.

The strength of the subregional offices is at the level of 21 per cent of all ECA professional staff or 14 per cent of all ECA staff, including General Service.

Article 4 stipulates that in the cabinet and senior civil service posts the proportion of persons of either gender must not be less than 25 per cent.

Mr. LEE Jae Wan (Republic of Korea), speaking on behalf of the Asian Group, welcomed the fact that the percentage of senior staff from Asia and the Pacific, as well as the percentage of female Professional staff from that region, had increased since 2001.

In comparison, of those with a form of disability, 41 percent of women and 51 percent of men were employed.

During the same period (1997 2004), staff resources of the Section increased from 5 to 13 posts, or 160 per cent.

The ministry has established an internal working group called An organisation in balance' that monitors the composition of committees, particularly the male female ratio, and staff composition.

With regard to staffing issues, he said that 79.9 per cent of the Department's 1,775 posts worldwide had been filled.

The Fund's information technology staff currently represent less than 15 per cent of its total staff, which is in the low to acceptable range for an organization of its size.

In 2001, 24 of the senior academic staff financed by the Council for Higher Education were women, a rise from 20 in 1992 93.

While the estimated requirements were based on the salary scale applicable to the G 2 step 1 level, 70 per cent of the staff were at higher grade levels.

Additional requirements were due mainly to a higher proportion of staff on temporary duty assignment status from United Nations offices in New York and Geneva as opposed to Mission appointees.

Despite this increased activity to meet the completion strategy, significant reductions in staff were made in the Office of the Prosecutor following the achievement of the first phase of the completion strategy, and the size of the investigation division has been reduced by 37 or 79 posts.

In 2002, women staff accounted for 38 and 32 of the total number of staff sent abroad or received training at home for postgraduate studies.

The methodology introduced to fund the support account was the inclusion, in each of the budgets of peacekeeping operations, of an average ratio of 8.5 per cent of the civilian staff component of the respective peacekeeping operation.

But if employers actually enroll their employees automatically in the plan, telling them that they can drop out at any time simply by notifying the employer, a large majority of employees will just accept the plan. Moreover, it appears that whatever contribution rate the employer chooses tends to be accepted passively by the employee, as does whatever investment allocation (between stocks and bonds, for example) is established.

The Foreign Service has a higher percentage of women among its officers than most other services to which recruitment is done under the CSS examination (previous chapter refers).

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.

Mobility

Obligations of staff members

and Information Technology Unit

Staff security

71. Requests the Secretary General to ensure a more balanced proportion of staff costs devoted to programme support in comparison with those devoted to the programme of work itself in all the regional commissions, in particular in the Economic Commission for Africa

87. Reiterates its requests to the Secretary General to ensure a more balanced proportion of staff costs devoted to programme support in comparison with those devoted to the programme of work in all the regional commissions, in particular in the Economic Commission for Africa

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

In view of the low proportion of women heads in primary education and the growing shortage of management staff for primary education, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science plans to take a range of measures to attract women to management positions.

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.

Overall pressure ratio is 28.0, with a bypass ratio of 4.66.

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.