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External sources (not reviewed)

administering the financial disclosure programme; undertaking the responsibilities assigned to it under the Organization’s policy for the protection of staff against retaliation for reporting misconduct and for cooperating with duly authorized audits or investigations; developing standards, training and education on ethics issues, in coordination with the Office of Human Resources Management and other offices, as appropriate, and conducting ethics outreach; providing confidential advice and guidance to staff on ethical issues (e.g., conflicts of interest), including administering an ethics helpline; and supporting ethics standard-setting and policy coherence.

should be determined in comparison with the commitments set out in the programme narratives of the approved programme budget and reported to the General Assembly through the Committee for Programme and Coordination.

on the evaluation of the work of the Commission and called upon the Executive Secretary to continue efforts to improve the performance of the secretariat through, inter alia, evaluation of the work of the secretariat and review of its internal structure to achieve the highest standards of effectiveness and efficiency.

to and reviewed by the Human Rights Council and the related recommendations conveyed to the Committee during its current session.

managers and staff members in carrying out the financial, personnel and general administrative responsibilities delegated by the Under-Secretary-General for Management, including overall administration and management, the administration of OIOS staff and financial resources located at Headquarters, Vienna, Nairobi and other duty stations under the delegation of authority granted by the Secretary-General (see ST/AI/401/Corr.1 and ST/AI/2003/4) and in accordance with the regulations and rules of the United Nations, the recruitment and administration of oversight staff in peacekeeping missions and the provision of advice to OIOS senior managers on administrative, financial, personnel and budgetary matters.

working languages and emphasized that ‘each staff member should be free to use in his/her written communications either English or French, at his or her option’ and that ‘no impediment is to be placed by anyone to this policy’, which was also to be applied to the other working languages of three of the regional economic commissions, namely Russian in the case of ECE, Spanish in the case of ECLAC and Arabic in the case of ESCWA.

which established it or as required in its terms of reference.

dated 28 May 2008, as well as the compact of the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations with regard to the requirement to establish a self-evaluation capacity.

to the Security Council Committee on Somalia and Eritrea, together with the present report, several confidential annexes containing information whose disclosure may be detrimental to the proper functioning of the United Nations or the welfare and safety of its staff or third parties or violate the Organization’s legal obligations.

separately administered organizations and programmes) has already provisions in this regard.

the establishment of conference management policies, practices, standards and procedures and the allocation of resources under the relevant budget section, in accordance with Assembly resolution 57/283 B and the Secretary-General’s bulletin on the Organization of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (ST/SGB/2005/9).

delivers ethics services for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.

of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)”.

biennial plan for programme 13, International drug control, crime and terrorism prevention and criminal justice, and provide its comments to the Secretary-General.

1980s. They contain detailed provisions, and may have been subsequently updated and revised (e.g. in the cases of cost recovery issues and delegation of authority) through internal memorandums communicated to the main parties concerned, but they are not easily available and accessible to all staff concerned with trust funds.

in the present revised edition are issued pursuant to resolution 53/207), as well as to Assembly resolution 54/236 and its decision 54/474.