Subsequently renamed Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

B. Reform of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Improving the performance of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Improving the performance of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Source Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, as at 31 July 2005.

Published at Headquarters, New York, by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

Department of Management

Subprogramme 1 is solely the responsibility of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management at Headquarters.

The reform of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management has been both revolutionary and evolutionary.

Review of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007 Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Review of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006 2007 Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Major General Ashwin C. Hurribunce Chief of Command and Management Information Systems Division Department of Defence South Africa

The Under Secretary General for Legal Affairs submits a monthly report on treaty translations to the Under Secretary General, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

The Board notes that other offices (Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, Department of Political Affairs and ECLAC) have not strictly adhered to the administrative instructions.

The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management is also handling contractual translations through various sources, including translation firms.

The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management has facilitated, through the meetings management system (e Meets), web based requests by permanent missions for Secretariat conference services.

The Office of the Legal Counsel maintains close contacts with its recurring clients, such as the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

The Secretariat, through the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, has introduced new electronic signboards displaying official meetings information.

The Advisory Committee is of the opinion that the Secretariat should continue to draw upon the resources available in the Department of Management or, where feasible, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, during periods when additional capacity is required.

The Office continued to provide change management consulting services, including to the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the document slotting system.

Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary General of the United Nations for the support provided to the secretariat through the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Department of Management.

(c) Headquarters Committee on Contracts, Department of Management three posts (one D 1, one P 4 and one General Service (Other level))

Centrally administered costs of the Department of Management

(c) The respective responsibilities of the Department of Management and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations

(a) Procurement Division, Department of Management eleven posts (one P 5, three P 4, four P 3, one General Service (Principal level) and two General Service (Other level))

The Office of Human Resources Management transmitted copies of vacancy announcements to the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management for onward transmittal to the permanent missions which had requested them.

The Under Secretary General establishes departmental policies and guidelines, deals with specific policy and management issues and problems, and is responsible for the administrative, financial and personnel management of the Department.

1.13 Resources are made for general temporary assistance and overtime to cover additional direct support provided by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management to the Presidents of the General Assembly.

I would also like to thank in particular the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management for the valuable contribution of its staff.

Representatives typically come from those departments and offices that most directly service the diplomatic community the Department of Management, specifically the Information Technology Services Division, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, and the Department of Public Information, including the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. These short meetings are typically held in the cafeteria or a similar setting

The Committee welcomes the statistics provided by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management concerning compliance by author departments (A 60 112, annex).

The Department for General Assembly and Conference Management is establishing new reporting standards to provide greater transparency in documentation services to the intergovernmental bodies.

In order to identify the required resources to implement the Secretary General's decision, it was decided that the functions previously carried out by the Office of External Relations be redistributed among various departments (Department of Public Information, Department of Management, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management and United Nations Fund for International Partnerships) within the Secretariat and to other units within the Executive Office of the Secretary General.

In that connection, I give the floor to the Director of the General Assembly and Economic and Social Council Affairs Division of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management.

The selection of senior conference managers has proceeded smoothly through active consultations at the highest levels of management in the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management and at the other three duty stations.

According to the vacancy announcement used by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, the functions of Editorial and Desktop Publishing Assistants are as follows

Furthermore, I am confident that the Committee will also be receiving full support from the Department for Disarmament Affairs and the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, headed by Mr. Nobuyasu Abe and Mr. Chen Jian, respectively.

According to the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, the projected number of General Service vacancies in the Text Processing Section from 2005 to 2009 is 47, as shown in table 1.

Two positions (one P 4 and one P 3) have been identified within the existing establishment of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management to support the Presidents of the General Assembly.

The Department of Management is solely responsible for activities covered by subprogramme 1, Management services and administration of justice.

A study of management culture in relation to senior appointments in education, sponsored by the Gender Equality Unit of the Department of Education and Science, was already bearing fruit the new Secretary General of the Department was a woman.

59. Notes the critical importance of the services provided by the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the Secretariat, and in this regard requests the Secretary General to make every effort to expedite the filling of all vacant posts in the Department in accordance with established procedures

The second post should be redeployed from within the Department of Management.

b The Department of Management is solely responsible for activities covered by subprogramme 1, Management services and administration of justice.

Section II of the report of the Secretary General contained in document A 60 342 focuses on the contribution made by the Department of Management to the improvement of management practices in central support services, human resources management and budgetary and financial management during the period from January 2003 through June 2005.