Building performance related accountability

A. Reconstituting of the Accountability Panel as the Management Performance Board

At the institutional level, rules, management systems and administrative procedures should require honest reporting, sharing of information and accountability for performance.

As part of the overall accountability framework, the e PAS is the formal tool employed in holding staff accountable for their performance.

The African Group is convinced that mutual accountability will ensure improved development performance and sustained aid increases.

The World Bank's Public Expenditure Tracking System could be used, as appropriate, as a model for monitoring the performance and accountability of sanitation systems.

It fosters a culture of transparency and accountability and of striving to improve the performance of UNIDO's activities.

Objective To improve the design, efficiency and effectiveness of UNIDO services, and to meet accountability requirements on project and programme performance.

Governments may also promote the accountability of private sector contractors by promoting public involvement in monitoring and evaluation of system performance.

To provide strategic direction to all components of the Programme, and to improve the performance and assure the accountability of the Organization.

5. Welcomes the efforts of the Commission to strengthen performance and accountability, especially at the senior levels, throughout the common system, and requests the Commission to make recommendations, where appropriate, for increasing the roles of performance and productivity in determining remuneration levels

It also responds to the particular importance that UNIDO's Member States attach to RBM as a management tool for improving organizational performance, enhancing transparency of reporting process and thus accountability.

To improve the performance and assure the accountability of the Organization by designing, maintaining, operating and monitoring the management control framework of UNIDO.

(b) Procedures to guarantee transparency in decision making, accountability in performance and access to information, including open briefings and interaction with all interested parties

The evaluation function provides analytical, structured and impartial feedback of project programme performance for the purpose of increasing efficiency and effectiveness of UNIDO services, for accountability to management, donors and counterparts and for learning lessons in support to organizational knowledge building.

Accountability of the system would be greatly enhanced through a common assessment by all members of the United Nations country team of the performance of resident coordinators.

Regular reporting on implementation of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons proved to be enhancing the performance of and the accountability under the Treaty.

With regard to good practices for mutual accountability arrangements, she underscored that ownership and leadership were essential for follow up and the achievement of results, as well as empirical data that underpinned performance and established credibility, without naming and shaming .

Results based management involves the following key steps defining strategic objectives specifying results that contribute to these goals and aligning programmes, processes and resources behind them engaging in ongoing monitoring and assessment of performance and improving accountability by means of continuous feedback on performance.

10. Also requests the Secretary General to reconstitute the Accountability Panel so as to strengthen the internal system of accountability, including with respect to human resources policies and objectives, and to ensure that the Panel has the authority necessary to hold programme managers accountable for their performance in achieving the objectives contained in human resources action plans

(d) Reinforcing managers' accountability for their staff.

3. Also notes the establishment of the Management Performance Board to replace the Accountability Panel as well as the functions and composition of the Board See ST SGB 2005 13.

Prioritizing public policies, designing programmes, delivering services and evaluating government performance face challenges related to the strengthening and safeguarding of integrity, transparency and accountability in the management of public affairs.

8. Welcomes the establishment of the Management Performance Board to strengthen the accountability framework of senior managers so as to ensure that they are properly undertaking the responsibilities that have been entrusted to them, including their performance in achieving the objectives contained in human resources action plans

Through the promulgation of Secretary General's bulletin ST SGB 2005 13, which took effect from 13 May 2005, the Secretary General has replaced the Accountability Panel with the Management Performance Board.

We support the Secretary General's proposals to strengthen Secretariat capacity through the improved performance of senior management and by enhancing oversight, accountability and transparency we hope that this will be sustained.

We share accountability for getting the job done.

It is of vital importance to ensure greater transparency in the decision making process, accountability in performance and access and better participation of non Member States in the work of the Council.

The Steering Committee has been replaced by the new Senior Committee on Management, while the Management Performance Board replaces the Accountability Panel, according to the Secretary General's announcement issued in April 2005.

Transparency and accountability are two important factors for democracy.

(viii) Identify appropriate key performance indicators for the performance management of external audit services

From the Arab Spring to the Anna Hazare movement in India, using mobile phones and social media not just for political accountability but also for development accountability.

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Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

(c) Adopt performance measures for countries

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Key performance indicators (KPIs) have been developed for monitoring of organizational performance in operational areas and for the cross cutting strategies.

Programme performance reporting for 2004 2005 Advisory Note No. 3 Preliminary programme performance assessment, 25 August 2004.

Determining an optimal level of accountability for results is also challenging.

Greater accountability for delivering on gender equality commitments required better tools.

Participants called for greater access to justice and State accountability for violence against women.

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(d) Budget performance for 2004 (SPLOS 128).