Two high level meetings were held, in Rome and Geneva, between the Assistant High Commissioner and the WFP Senior Deputy Executive Director and senior staff of the two organizations.

As at 30 June 2004, there were approximately 1,800 indigenous women employed in the Australian Public Service,4 of whom 113 were employed at the executive level, and 9 were members of the senior executive service.

14.21 The Office of the Executive Director provides executive and support services to the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director, as well as to the senior management of UNEP.

It has a direct reporting line to the Senior Deputy Executive Director (Operations).

One General Service (Principal level) post, Senior Administrative Assistant

Improving executive level decision making

The Office of the Chief Executive Officer comprises the Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Legal Officer, the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, and conference support and administrative staff.

Abbreviations CEO, Chief Executive Officer DCEO, Deputy Chief Executive Officer GS (PL), General Service (Principal level) GS (OL), General Service (Other level).

At the executive level, within the civil service, the number of women occupying senior ranks in the organizational hierarchy in 1995 numbered 1,211 or 7.20 percent while in 1997 the number decreased to 6.98 percent.

A senior level administrator scientist will be needed to direct the programme.

Senior officials from about 30 organizations participated in the High level Meeting.

The Advisory Committee met with the Executive Director and, via videoconference, with other senior officials of UNODC.

Fifty per cent of the advertised senior level posts (D 1 and above), were filled by women, resulting in an increase in female representation in senior level positions from 5 to 21 per cent (figure 3)

In 1991, there were only 41.2 women per 100 men at senior management level.

Performance contracts between members of the Senior Management Team and the Executive Director are proposed for implementation in 2005.

The current under representation of women, particularly at the senior level, was a cause for concern.

A meeting of senior level experts will be organized in order to finalize the issue papers.

As a result of the insufficiency of funds insufficiency within during the Bbiennium, the Executive Secretary froze authorized the freezing of three senior posts, as one of the measures taken to operate restoremaintain operations to at at the level of the approved budget.

In the executive branch there is a ministerial level National Youth Commission.

The Executive Director of UNIFEM and the Director of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) jointly chair the UNDP Senior Gender Task Force, and both are members of the Senior Management Team led by the Administrator.

Kul Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, said that the High Level Forum on Health related Millennium Development Goals, established in May 2003, aimed to provide an opportunity for candid dialogue between senior policy makers and to identify opportunities for accelerating action on the health related Goals.

At national level, relatively few executive positions are held by women (see diagram).

At least 76 per cent of the respondents were chairmen, CEOs, managing directors, presidents and senior vice presidents, executive directors and general managers.

The new posts include a Senior Conflict Management Officer at the P 5 level, an Information Advocacy and Outreach Officer at the P 3 level and two General Service (Other level) support staff.

The measures described in the present section of this report are aimed at ensuring that (a) the Secretary General receives the necessary advice to properly assess the performance of senior managers (b) executive level decisions are clearly understood and followed up (c) senior managers understand what is expected from them and (d) the mechanism for formal appraisal of all staff, including managers, is improved.

Experts should be drawn the field of candidates who have held senior management or executive positions that involve one or more of the following

UNICEF continues to strengthen partnerships, both at the level of senior leadership and in programme collaboration in the field.

The panellists will include Mr. Arun Maira, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, India Mr. Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International Mr. Herman Mulder, Senior Executive, Vice President, ABN AMRO and Mr. Sam Jonah, former President of AngloGold Ashanti.

In 2002 2000, the number of school enrollments reached 18 million with girls making up almost an equal share of 47.49 for primary level, 47.26 for junior secondary level and 47.36 for senior secondary level.

UNICEF agrees to develop and implement guidance which requires contracts involving significant financial commitments to be submitted to the Senior Adviser, Executive Office, for approval.

At the junior high school level, the percentage of drop outs was 4.1 percent while at senior high school level it was 3.4 percent, the majority of whom were girls.

Furthermore, the Executive Director and senior staff met frequently with the chairmen of regional groups and representatives of Member States to keep them abreast of developments.

Also in mid 2004, the Executive Committee and the external auditors recommended that UNHCR commission an independent review of its senior management structure, to encompass issues raised by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Executive Committee.

It is composed of the executive heads of the member organizations and is assisted by two high level committees, the High Level Committee on Programmes and the High Level Committee on Management.

Consequently, two smaller senior level committees, a Policy Committee and a Management Committee both chaired by the Secretary General have been created.

Precisely as a result, it sought assurances from the Government of Egypt, at a senior level, as to the complainant's proper treatment.

In addition to grappling with the challenges of senior level recruitments, ongoing revitalization programmes also have to deal with issues of diversity.

Although women comprise 38 percent of the civil service, they account for only 16 percent of civil servants at senior level positions.

The Executive Director presented the summary of the President to the Commission at its high level segment.

1 additional General Service (Other level) post in the Executive Office for a Recruitment Assistant (ibid., para.

The Executive Secretary sees the recruitment of more senior managers from non Annex I Parties as an imperative, so that the secretariat is fully representative of all Parties.

Instead, I have decided to create a cabinet style decision making mechanism (with stronger executive powers than the present Senior Management Group) to improve both policy and management.

There should be accountability at the highest levels for example, annual reporting to the Executive Board and gender mainstreaming should be included in the RCAs of senior management.

The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer had presented the draft report on the evaluation (UNEP OzL.Pro ExCom 45 11) at the forty fifth meeting of the Executive Committee.

31. Requests the Secretary General to discontinue the practice of paying higher subsistence rates to middle and senior level United Nations staff members