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.

Financial disclosure by senior officials

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).

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.

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

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.

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

Mrs. Marlene A. Parker, Senior Director for Research and Financial Services, The Private Sector Organization, Jamaica

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.

It has 26 members of staff 1 head, 1 deputy head, 1 policy advisor, 4 senior financial investigators, 5 financial investigators, 5 assistant financial investigators, 1 tax authority and tax investigation service liaison (seconded), 2 system managers, 1 senior strategic analyst, 2 strategic analysts, 1 data entry employee, 2 secretarial staff.

Requests the UNFPA Executive Director to keep the financial regulations under active review and to consult accordingly with the Executive Board.

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

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.

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

At its second regular session, in September 2004, the Executive Board requested the Executive Director to articulate a strategy for attaining financial viability.

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 addition, there is one Executive Secretary responsible for administrative, personnel and financial affairs.

In addition, the Executive Board will have before it the annual financial review, 2004.

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.

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.

Third, a more expansive requirement for financial disclosure by senior officials and better dissemination of code of conduct requirements are being introduced.

Senior PLO officials have participated in demonstrations and protest activities, with some being injured and Executive Committee member Abbas Zaki imprisoned for a couple of days. Other senior Fatah officials have been banned from travel outside the West Bank, owing largely to their involvement in nonviolent protests.

This report summarizes the financial situation of UNFPA in 2004 for the information of the Executive Board.

In terms of distribution by gender and by rank in normal activities, men account for the overwhelming proportion of senior positions (HA), which cover executive, policymaking, advisory and oversight positions.

Requests the Executive Director to provide periodic updates to the Executive Board in the course of 2006 on UNOPS' financial situation and on progress in the implementation of the transition measures

As at June 2004, women held 32.2 per cent of Commonwealth controlled positions on Australian Government Boards and 31.6 per cent of senior executive service positions in the Australian Public Service.

The Executive Director shall be responsible for, and report to the Council on the Administration of the financial accounts.

Substantial improvements have been made to improve transparency and disclosure in the notes to financial statements, the financial report and the executive summary, as well as in the main statements.

This plan enables the Executive Board to review the financial performance of UNICEF in 2004 and see updated income projections.

In decision XVI 36, the Parties requested the Executive Committee to consider the evaluation and review of the financial mechanism.

Further requests the Administrator to keep the financial regulations under active review and to consult accordingly with the Executive Board.

Requests the Executive Director to continue to improve the financial management and control systems of UNOPS and the required reporting

If the gains made by the Executive Director are to be sustained, there is an urgent need to ensure that this senior manager is available full time to focus on the administrative infrastructure.

Two additional support account posts are proposed in the Executive Office of the Secretary General a P 5 post for a Senior Political Officer and a General Service post for an Administrative Assistant.

The compliance chief shall be a senior manager of the parent company, and may not concurrently take charge of the business department or the financial department.

While the ethics office will be responsible for administering the financial disclosure programme, it is proposed that the actual review and audit of financial disclosure forms be carried out by independent financial experts rather than the staff of the ethics office, in order to safeguard the confidentiality of senior officials' private financial information.

The Executive Board had before it the financial report and audited financial statements for the biennium ended 31 Dec 2003 (A 59 5 Add.2), which was introduced by the Comptroller.

It is worth noting that the committees within the United Nations system generally report to their executive heads, while the committees within the multinational financial institutions and other international organizations report to their executive boards.

Requests the Executive Director to report on the utilization of these funds in the context of the UNFPA annual financial review.

Administrative and financial services programme assists the Executive Secretary in the planning, development, coordination, control and management of the secretariat's resources.