Transportation (outsourced)

(c) To ensure appropriate management and or control over the activities or services that have been outsourced

The update included a definition of outsourcing and gave examples of some activities already outsourced by UNHCR.

Audio technician (outsourced) Maintenance

3. Requests the Secretary General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session on the implementation of the provisions of its resolution 55 232 and on activities outsourced during the years 2002 and 2003, including information on the location and type of outsourced activities and more detailed reasoning therefor.

(b) The activities outsourced during the years 1999 2000, by providing similar detailed information as mentioned in paragraph 5 (a) of the present resolution

Outsourced services range from simple, low value added activities (e.g. data entry) to more sophisticated, high value added activities (e.g. architectural design, financial analysis, software programming, human resource services and R D).

Quality control of outsourced translations had been expanded since 1996.

(a) Progress achieved with regard to the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution, including information on the location and type of outsourced activities and the reason therefor

With the globalization of economy, industrial production processes are increasingly being outsourced internationally.

Acknowledges that outsourcing should be used in full compliance with the four criteria set out by the General Assembly, and requests the Secretary General to monitor the quality of activities outsourced

The JIU report raises some valid issues and it is agreed that particular attention should be paid to the need to ensure in house core competencies and the ability to manage and control outsourced activities.

For the same reasons and because of concerns of confidentiality, none of these tasks could be outsourced.

This task has been outsourced to the global internally displaced person survey, a project of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

However, a subsequent audit showed that further staff reductions are possible if some support functions were to be outsourced.

This function of the secretariat is central to the implementation of the Convention and the Protocol and cannot be outsourced.

The claims process for the Medical Insurance Plan, used by field offices, should be outsourced to ensure the confidentiality of participants.

Taking advantage of available technology, the publication production and distribution functions will be integrated and outsourced as needed to maximize outputs.

Many of these services were initially performed in house by firms but are now regularly purchased from or outsourced to outside providers.

The ERA process may be conducted by the procuring entity itself, using licensed software, or outsourced to a third party ERA service provider.

The Board noted that the Administration had outsourced the Gift Centre to a firm for five years with effect from 1 May 1997.

I wrote an article called My Outsourced Life, where I hired a team of people in Bangalore, India, to live my life for me.

64. Stresses the principle that no core function of the Secretariat can be outsourced to operational bodies, in particular at the field level, without proper financial compensation

In short, if the Security Council is unwilling or unable to be more transparent, including by putting out good reports, then that work will find itself being outsourced.

The balance in statement II under other assets includes 3,531,560 representing charges incurred against future years for the sharing of outsourced enterprise system software with UNDP and other agencies.

TML, for example, has dramatically increased not only the quantity but also the value content of its outsourced parts. The company's strategy shifted from contracting out some activities and operations in the pre liberalization period to outsourcing parts and aggregates in the early 1990s, and today suppliers are involved in developing systems and technology today.

Overall, the trade of outsourced services is taking place between developed and developing countries, as well as within each group, with developing countries strongly involved in the rise of outsourcing.

However, ITU outsourced as much as 58.7 per cent of its 2002 procurement operations to the private sector and ILO did likewise for 8 per cent of its total procurement.

The balance in Statement II under other assets includes inter alia 3,531,560 representing charges incurred against future years for the sharing of outsourced enterprise system software with UNDP and other agencies.

The Committee was informed that the major work of the financial disclosure programme would be outsourced to ensure an independent review, leaving the administration of the programme to the ethics office itself.

Indeed, public sector asset management could be outsourced, with private asset managers competing for the job. This would accelerate the development of the asset management sector, with far reaching benefits for savers and investors.

So, I work for Esquire magazine, and a couple of years ago, I wrote an article called My Outsourced Life, where I hired a team of people in Bangalore, India, to live my life for me.

Table 2 is complemented by other data on the scope of the organizations' procurement portfolio, outsourced in 2002 to other procuring entities within the United Nations system in the pursuit of coordination and division of labour.

Even in Europe, with its long history of cooperation, surveillance and conditionality are outsourced to the IMF. Revealingly, the Fund, not the European Union, has taken the lead in negotiating emergency assistance packages for Hungary and Latvia.

Furthermore, with record high unemployment rates, Europe needs jobs in dynamic, competitive industries that cannot easily be outsourced. The European Commission has identified the green economy as one of the areas with the highest job creation potential.

Internationally outsourced jobs, such as medical and legal transcription work, software services, or the maintenance of daily accounts for small businesses located in other countries, have made a considerable difference to women's work opportunities in developing countries.36

But the erosion of traditional law remains most pronounced in the international arena. The G 20 s decisions have become increasingly informal, while rule making authority has been outsourced to private regulatory bodies, such as the Basel Committee and the International Accounting Standards Board.

Greater competition and the adoption of new technologies increased the demand for, and incomes of, highly skilled, talented, and educated workers doing non routine jobs like consulting. More routine, once well paying, jobs done by the unskilled or the moderately educated were automated or outsourced.

Responsibilities outsourced are usually of a procedural nature, such as setting up necessary systems and procedures for conducting ERAs, providing assistance and training to suppliers, ensuring safety and security and availability of back up options, and maintaining and managing appropriate reporting system and electronic records.

Activities cover pre school activities, literacy courses for women and income generating activities.

Europe, too, embraced the postwar international system. With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty first century post sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.

This foreign policy assertiveness is as revolutionary for Japan s diplomacy as Abenomics has been for its economic policy. It marks a stark contrast with the seven decades following Japan s defeat in 1945 in the Pacific War, when successive governments mostly outsourced foreign policy to the United States.

Translated into ordinary language, this means that the state finances of a country that was granted help from the EMF would be outsourced, for a time, to external commissioners, much as happened in the nineteenth century to Latin American states that wanted their debts re financed.

The Advisory Committee recalls, in this connection, that the General Assembly, in its resolution 55 232, requested the Secretary General to ensure that programme managers meet certain criteria in their assessment of whether or not an activity of the Organization could be fully or even partially outsourced.

Operational activities the environment and sustainable development activities