Staff learning and knowledge sharing

These staff also have significant knowledge and experience regarding their regions.

Achieving the targets of the new MTSP will require enhancement of staff learning and knowledge sharing.

Capacity building activities aimed at enhancing the skills and knowledge of Library staff, including presentations made by experts in the library and knowledge management field.

The Office also intensified efforts to strengthen the knowledge and capacity of UNHCR staff and partners.

The Office also intensified efforts to strengthen the knowledge and capacity of UNHCR staff and partners.

23. The work undertaken in 1998 allowed United Nations staff to increase their knowledge of the system.

Knowledge Bites , a weekly reading and discussion group intended to foster the exchange of ideas among Library staff.

Both courses were taught by UNU WIDER staff and contributed to the students knowledge of economic concepts and theories.

The broad knowledge of information sources possessed by staff of the United Nations library system is one of its greatest assets.

The United Nations strongly supported the current incentive mechanisms to promote language knowledge among its staff.

In 1997, UNIFEM expanded staff capacity by providing training in results based management and knowledge management.

When working offshore, companies should build the capacity of local communities by hiring local staff and transferring technology and knowledge.

She underlined the need to motivate staff and suggested that knowledge of gender issues be a required competency for senior positions.

Increased staff mobility means that fewer staff who have completed the minimum five year learning cycle needed to acquire in depth knowledge of the pension system will be available a broader foundation would therefore ensure the availability of experienced staff when vacancies occur.

Security training also needed improvement to raise the level of staff awareness to potential threats and knowledge of security procedures in field missions.

Those data showed that the majority of employers required its staff, or staff in certain positions, to have knowledge of and work in an additional language. No premium was paid, however, by any of the employers.

Lectures and farm visits by department staff are used to disseminate knowledge and advice on food production and conservation.

Library staff cannot be expected, even with the provision of continuous learning, to develop all the skills needed to create knowledge enabled environments.

United Nations libraries will work in the broader content of knowledge management programmes to help United Nations staff create clearer and more concise documents.

The libraries will work in partnership with records and archives staff in the development and implementation of content management strategies and personal knowledge management programmes.

70. The Board s survey of the Office s staff included questions to obtain their views on their knowledge and understanding of the new system and ongoing systems development.

The Board noted that local staff of the Tribunal were at times placed in positions of responsibility without adequate training and knowledge of United Nations policies and procedures.

The specialized knowledge of the regions and the respective conflicts, the knowledge of international law (much of which has been developed within the Tribunals) and the operation of an international criminal tribunal are all unique to the Tribunals and to the staff currently on board.

77. For UNIFEM to gather and apply its knowledge effectively, staff need to understand and design programmes that incorporate strong learning components.

Reaffirming the role of the Staff College as an institution for system wide knowledge management, training and continuous learning for the staff of the United Nations system, in particular in the areas of economic and social development, peace and security and internal management,

Reaffirming the role of the Staff College as an institution for system wide knowledge management, training and continuous learning for the staff of the United Nations system, in particular in the areas of economic and social development, peace and security and internal management,

(d) Knowledge enhancement the measure generates and or shares information to support better decision making, or new skills to make staff more effective.

In all categories and occupational groups, staff members at the Tribunals possess skills and institutional knowledge that make them essential to the daily functioning of the mission.

With each departure of staff, institutional knowledge and specific expertise is lost, and must be learned by a new recruit, at all levels and in all functions.

It is, nevertheless, a global institution dealing with a wide range of complex and interrelated issues and requiring versatile staff with a broad range of experience, skills and knowledge.

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Staff assessment, local staff Lower deployment of local staff.

These SINTNCs had prior experience and knowledge of the host countries through trading activities with customers there and frequent travel by staff to host countries to serve clients.

Knowledge sharing activities will also include online discussions relating to SSC among UNDP staff in country offices around the world and other members of the international development community.

Furthermore, staff members with proven working knowledge of more than one official language were compensated by a language allowance, a system that had been established for that purpose.

For Pascal, scientific knowledge paled beside the knowledge of God.

(b) The service to be performed should be one for which provision cannot be found within the staff resources of the Secretariat for lack of specialized knowledge and or expertise

OIOS also noted that there is a mobility policy which supposedly guides the deployment of staff with a view to enhancing their field exposure. However, in practice it does not appear to be functional, as most subregional office staff professed no knowledge of it.

FICSA pointed out that there were some staff who were not even aware that a new Master Standard existed and those staff members who were aware of its existence, including some managers, still lacked sufficient knowledge, leading to much confusion and apprehension.

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68. Encourages the funds, programmes and specialized agencies to make full use of the United Nations Staff College as an institution for system wide knowledge management, training and learning

A consultant must have special skills or knowledge not normally possessed by the regular staff of the Organization and for which there is no continuing need in the Secretariat.

A development team would be required to implement the prototype, including staff with database and costing skills and knowledge of conference services or United Nations budgeting and accounting procedures.

A knowledge management system of interregional knowledge creation, transfer and codification.