The resources were made available to the Office through the redeployment of one post at the D 1 level from the Department of Political Affairs and the conversion of one General Service post from that Department to a Local level post.

It has a somewhat different function from the other Regional Administrative Agencies, owing to its .

One General Service (Other level) post, administrative and research assistant, Mediation Support Unit

The post of Executive Officer for the Department had indeed been advertised under the administration occupational grouping, but the vacancy announcement had begun by indicating clearly that the organizational unit concerned was the Department of Safety and Security.

The unutilized balance of 62,200 relates to the vacancy of one post for one month and one post being encumbered by a staff at a lower level. During the reporting period, the overall vacancy rate in the office was 5 per cent.

The worst kind of ethnic discrimination is present in the case of returnees, who can hardly find jobs in public administration or public companies.

But although serious progress has been made, there are still around two male senior managers for every female manager.

Comment by the Administration. The recommendation has not been implemented as a post of compliance officer was not requested in the budget for the 2004 2005 biennium.

Paragraph 18 of the budget proposal details the proposal for the redeployment of 20 posts paragraph 19 details the redeployment of 11 additional posts to the Information Technology Services Section of the Division of Administration, in response to recommendations made by the Office of Internal Oversight Services.

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

(d) The existing quality assurance function will continue to advise the management team on emerging audit trends, root cause analysis and possible actions

The 347 proposed temporary staff positions comprise 73 international staff and 274 national staff positions, inclusive of 15 national officers.

The Political Affairs Unit will be headed by a Senior Political Affairs Officer (an existing P 5 position), supported by two Political Affairs Officers (a P 4 existing position and an additional P 3) and an Administrative Research Assistant (General Service (Local level)).

A total of 667 additional posts are requested as follows 32 for the Office of the Director of Administration 151 for Administrative Services 396 for Integrated Support Services and 88 for the Security Section.

Comment of the Administration. The UNCC secretariat advised the Board that the Governing Council had approved a second audit post effective 1 January 2005 and noted that the Office of Internal Oversight Services had filled that post as at 6 June 2005.

Continuing oversight through audits. The audit function will continue to assess and analyze the effectiveness and adequacy of programme and operations management practices, governance processes and internal controls throughout the organization.

One P 4 Finance Officer post is rejustified in the Finance Management and Support Service of the Office of Mission Support (ibid., para.

Wish function

User function

Reference

1 D 1, 1 P 5, 1 P 4, 1 FS, 2 NO, 1 NS

1 D 1, 11 P 5, 10 P 4, 8 P 3, 7 P 2,

1 D 1, 3 P 4, 3 P 3, 1 GS (OL),

1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 P 3, 12 P 2,

3 NS, 1 UNV

2 P 4, 4 P 3, 6 FS, 9 NS

1 D 1, 1 P 5, 3 P 4,

1 ASG, 1 D 1, 2 FS, 4 NS

(34 posts)

1 P 2, 1 GS, 1 NS, 11 NO,

1 P 4, 1 NS, 2 UNV

(12 posts)a

1 USG, 2 D 2, 3 D 1, 7 P 5,

Substantive offices total

Uruguay

Indonesia

3 battalions

Bangladesh, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan

East Reserve Battalion

Special Forces Company

Senegal

South Africa

India

8 attack helicopters

Tunisia