Recent deployments of SDS have provided valuable lessons in cargo management in terms of stuffing, marking, dispatching and security of containerized cargo.

Optimizing the rate of redeployment of SDS may introduce new material management challenges as the volume of operational activities increases.

All aspects of material management require development at UNLB and at new mission start ups in order to support rapid and frequent deployment of SDS.

Increasing the rate at which stocks are delivered above current levels will require modern approaches to material management.

To remedy this constraint, and to facilitate the rapid deployment of SDS, the Secretariat and UNLB will dispatch stocks to new missions based on a deployment concept.

Material management processes at UNLB need to accommodate the volume and the rate of SDS movements.

In addition, both the SDS programme and troop contributing countries will deploy material handling equipment at an early stage of mission deployment.

Management of strategic deployment stocks

Also pertinent is the need for accelerating the rate of redeployment of the strategic deployment stocks by adjusting the composition and timely replenishment of the stocks.

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The award of contracts for procurement for strategic deployment stocks

Strengthening the Programme s internal expertise

For example, receipt and inspection activities at UNLB currently act as a constraint, with processing times of 4 to 6 weeks affecting the rapid reconfiguration and redeployment of SDS.

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Increasing the speed of delivery of the stocks will require a review of all material management processes and the organizational structure of UNLB.

For immediate operationalization of SDS to missions, UNLB has developed its capacity to deploy technical support teams to assist and train mission staff in the immediate deployment of the stocks.

UNDCP project to mobilize non governmental organizations in eastern and southern Africa

The Department for Development Support and Management Services, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations International Drug Control Programme were represented by observers.

Timely material planning will be used to authorize dispatch of SDS.

Adequate receipt and inspection capacity must be built into the rapid deployment teams, and the staff required for port operations and receipt and inspection of SDS must be deployed prior to arrival of shipments of stocks in the mission area.

Costing structures

Since many stock items are received from the suppliers in bulk, they require consolidating, assembling, testing, marking and repackaging prior to deployment.

Prior to the introduction of rapid replenishment mechanisms, it was generally accepted that SDS could be partially redeployed only once a year.

UNLB will store SDS materials in a manner appropriate to each of the many commodity types in order to support stock rotation and enable optimal utilization of the stocks for the deployment of missions.

To accelerate the redeployment rate, the inventory levels of long lead time items will need to be increased and the stocking of short lead time items reduced appropriately.

UNDCP United Nations Drug Control Programme

It also acts as the governing body of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP).

The Programme undertook to follow up how this might be achieved, possibly through the introduction of decentralized rosters on the Intranet.

The Committee notes that while the strategic deployment stocks concept was based on modules, the stocks are not stored, deployed or reconstituted as modules instead, the Logistics Base will store the materials in a manner appropriate to each of the main commodity types, to support stock rotation and enable optimal utilization of the stocks for deployment to missions.

The Galileo inventory management system will be implemented in all new missions prior to the arrival of major items of SDS.

170, A 59 5, Vol. II). In this connection, the Advisory Committee welcomes the Secretary General's statement that valuable lessons in cargo management have been drawn by the administration from recent deployments of strategic deployment stocks in terms of marking, dispatching and security of containerized cargo and that all high value cargo will be containerized and all containers will have prominent external markings for quick identification.

WCO has called upon its member administrations, especially those in East and Southern Africa, to actively report seized firearms.

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The UNDCP component of the programme focuses on activities in the health and education sector.

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UNLB prepares SDS for shipment based on material release orders received from Headquarters.

SDS is not stored, deployed or reconstituted as modules because specific mission locational needs and operational requirements limit the utility of modules as a unit of deployment.

Material readiness, including SDS, systems contracts, services contracts and inter Mission transfers, has proved to be one of the key elements for developing such a rapid and effective deployment capability.

However, revolving inventory management of SDS requires sophisticated automated material accounting systems to complement Galileo.

(c) A study of the changes in land use and the estimation of the biomasses involved (financed by UNEP GEF and managed by the Ministry for the Environment)

The senior management of the Asian Development Bank has approved a UNDCP proposal to set up a focal point on drug control within the Bank.

The reviews primarily concerned the efficiency of financial procedures, the internal financial controls and, in general, the administration and management of the Programme.

The Secretariat now has a defined system for rapid deployment and, with the strategic deployment stocks and the provision of a pre mandate commitment, materiel and financial tools to facilitate it.

The Secretariat is finalizing an extensive set of policies and procedures defining the deployment concept for SDS and the roles, responsibilities and procedures for its planning, deployment, replenishment, rotation, accounting and support.

The norms of good urban governance and secure tenure have also been disseminated through various publications and documents produced in collaboration with other UN Habitat units.