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Conclusions of the Thirty-Fifth Session of the High Level Committee on Management (Valencia, 12-13 April 2018). Issues discussed included: Moving from risk aversion to risk management: creating value for the UN system; Duty of Care for UN system personnel; Addressing sexual harassment within the organizations of the UN system; Innovation and data for a new working culture; Advancing common business operations in UN country teams; and Collaboration with the International Civil Service Commission.

Le Cadre de la criticité des programmes est une politique commune du système des Nations Unies, qui donne des principes directeurs et une méthode systématique d’évaluation permettant d’appliquer la criticité des programmes au processus de la Gestion des risques de sécurité (SRM) des Nations Unies, en vue de mesurer l’utilité des activités impliquant le personnel des Nations Unies1 à l’aune des risques qu’elles représentent.

Conclusions of the Thirty-Second Session of the High Level Committee on Management (Paris, 3-4 October 2016). Issues discussed included: HLCM Strategic Plan 2017-2020; UN system model for transformative “leaders of the future”, HR Management in support of the 2030 Agenda; Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; Costs of oversight and accountability mechanisms in the UN system; Common Definitions Related to Fraud and Implementing Partners; Programme Criticality Framework; Health Support plans for duty stations world-wide; Data Innovation Lab & UN System Common Documentation Standard; Report of the Inter-Agency Security Management Network (IASMN); UN International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development; Payment of Pensions.

The primary goal of the United Nations Security Management System (UNSMS) is to enable the conduct of United Nations (UN) activities while ensuring the safety, security and well-being of personnel. The conditions under which UNSMS personnel operate in the field have changed drastically over the years, particularly in light of the UN’s shift to a “stay and deliver” approach to operating in high-risk environments. This has substantially increased the number of individuals exposed to stress and critical incident stress. While many individuals who experience stress or critical incident stress are able to resume their daily activities with minimal or no disruption, some may encounter difficulty resuming such activities due to psychological, somatic or social reactions linked to such exposure.

The 22nd Session of the Inter-Agency Security Management Network (IASMN) was held at the Eurotel in Montreux, Switzerland from 23 to 25 June 2015. Thirty-seven (37) United Nations Security Management System (UNSMS) members participated in the session, with eight (8) other entities participating as observers. Mr. Peter Drennan, Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security (USG, UNDSS), chaired the session while Mr. Drew Donovan, Head of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Safety and Security Division, served as Co-Chair. Ms.

Conclusions of the Thirty-First Session of the High Level Committee on Management (Vienna, 22-23 March 2016). Issues discussed included: Support to the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda; New UN System Compensation Package and MAS65: conclusions of the intergovernmental discussion, implementation plans, and launch of the new phase of the review - for National Professional Officer and the General Service and related categories; Duty of Care and Safety and Security of Staff; ASHI - Outcome of the General Assembly's discussions on the SG's report; Special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse; FICSA proposal regarding the cost-sharing of elected officials; IPSAS System-wide Progress Report for July-December 2015.

The present report provides an overview of major developments in inter-agency cooperation within the framework of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), during the period covering its fall 2005 and spring 2006 sessions.

Conclusions of the Twenty-Seventh Session of the High Level Committee on Management (Venice, 3-4 April 2014). Issues discussed included: Safety and Security on reconciling duty of care for United Nations personnel while operating in high-risk environments; Outcome of the operational activities segment of the Economic and Social Council; Contribution of the High-level Committee on Management to the post-2015 fitness-for-purpose strategy of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination; Outcome of the seventy-eighth session of the International Civil Service Commission - progress on the review of the United Nations compensation package; Information-sharing session on global service centres; Innovative financial instruments and mechanisms for international organizations; Organizational resilience management system for the United Nations.

The present report covers: the reports of the Board's committees (HLCP, HLCM, UNDG); a discussion on The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels; Briefing by Mr. Michel Jarraud on UN-Water.

The organizations of the United Nations system are now working closer to the front lines of conflict or even inside conflict zones, as well as in volatile and politically complex situations. This is reflected in the casualties that the United Nations system has suffered in the last year.

The Inter-Agency Security Management Network (IASMN) met at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Headquarters in Rome from 26 to 30 June 2011. A list of participants is attached at Annex A. The agenda and list of documents considered by IASMN members is attached at Annex B. This was the 15th session of the IASMN since its first meeting in Vienna in 2000.

This report provides an overview of major developments in inter-agency cooperation within the framework of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) covering the period 2011/12.

During the CEB First Session held in April 2009, the board adopted the CEB statement to Member States on the system’s commitment to a strengthened and enhanced system-wide security management system.

Conclusions of the Twenty-Second Session of the High Level Committee on Management (Washington, D.C., 26-27 September 2011). Issues discussed included: Security and Safety of Staff; Programme Criticality Framework; Improving Efficiency and Cost Controls; Common Principles on Results Reporting; UNDG-HLCM Mission to identify country-level bottlenecks in business practices; HLCM Networks; Mandatory of Separation, ERM.

Follow-up to IPSAS Task Force; Personal Financial Disclosure Programmes; Update from the joint FBHR network Working Group on Compensation for Service Incurred death, injuries and illnesses (Appendix D); UN operational rates of exchange (UNROE); Interim results from the Working Group on Safety and Security Costs; Common Services Centres; Progress report from the Working Group on Common Treasury Services; Progress report from the WG on Financial Reporting; Presentation of the UN System Financial Statistics 2010; Progress report from the WG on Harmonized Financial Rules and Regulations; and Up

Follow-up to the Task Force on Accounting Standards meeting; Progress update from the Working Group on Common Treasury Services; Cost sharing arrangements for Jointly Funded Activities; Update from the Working Group on Safety and Security Costs; UN System-wide Financial Statistics Database and Reporting System; and Impact of IPSAS on budgeting.

Part one of the report highlights the issue of reform, which was a major feature of the experience of many organizations of the United Nations system during the year and which has had significant implications for the work of ACC.

This report provides an overview of the work of the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) and its subsidiary bodies in 1999.

This report provides an overview of major developments in inter-agency cooperation during the year 2001 within the purview of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB).

This report provides an overview of major developments in inter-agency cooperation during 2004/05 within the framework of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB).

This report covers: Discussions on Review of developments affecting international cooperation and development, and their implications for the United Nations system: poverty eradication; Strengthening and reform of the United Nations system, including the conclusion of the ACC review of the functioning of the inter-agency machinery; Administrative questions: staff security; Peace-building: draft strategic framework on/for Afghanistan; Follow-up to recent ACC conclusions (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction) .

This report covers: Discussions on the demands placed on national and international systems by the new global environment; Follow-up to the Beijing Platform for Action and gender mainstreaming; Follow-up to recent ACC decisions (Coordination of United Nations system activities in Africa, HIV/AIDS, Follow-up to global conferences and the Economic and Social Council,  Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace) ; Administrative Questions (Introduction of a second-tier appellate mechanism to enhance the administration of justice in the United Nations system, United Nations staff

This report covers: Discussions on the Demands placed on national and international systems by the new global environment; Health and other social implications of globalization; Financing for development; Least developed countries; Review of the Administrative Committee on Coordination; Briefings by members of the Administrative Committee on Coordination; Staff security and safety; Meeting with the Chairman of the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) and staff representatives; Follow-up to ACC decisions (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; HIV/AIDS).

This report covers: the reports of the Board's committees (HLCM and HLCP). Discussions on Programme issues (Follow-up to the Millennium Summit: “Preventing armed conflict”; Future role of the High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) in follow-up to the United Nations Millennium Declaration; Preparations for future discussions on financing for development and strategies for sustainable development) and Management issues (Staff security and safety; Reform of the pay and benefits system; Information and communication technologies; Dialogue with the Chairman of the International Civil Service Commission and staff representatives; Secretary-General’s reform initiative).

This report covers: the reports of the Board's committees (HLCM and HLCP). Discussions on Programme issues (Follow-up to Monterrey: financing for development; HIV/AIDS and its linkages with food security and governance; Follow-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development) and Management issues (Staff security and safety;  Dialogue with staff representatives and the Chairman of the International Civil Service Commission).

This report covers: Discussions on Programme issues (Follow-up to 2005 World Summit; World Summit on the Information Society; Gender mainstreaming and women, peace and security) and Management issues (Management reform: inter-agency collaboration on accountability and transparency; Accounting standards;  Security and safety of staff; Dialogue with staff representatives).

This report covers: the reports of the Board's committees (HLCM,HLCP,UNDG); Discussion on Staff Security and Safety; and, under Other Matters, Briefing on the CEB Trade and Productive Capacity Cluster and on UPU initiative “Addressing the world – An address for everyone”.

This report provides an overview of major developments in inter-agency cooperation within the framework of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), during the period covering its session in October 2008 and its session in April 2009.

Framework for Human Resources Management: (a) Review of the pay and benefits system; (b) Contractual arrangements; (c) Mobility; Evolution of the UN/US net remuneration margin; Base/floor salary scale; Review of the level of the education grant ;Hazard pay; Mission subsistence allowance; Paternity leave; Survey of best prevailing conditions of employment for the General Service and related categories in Geneva and Vienna; Exchange of views on issues to be considered by HLCM; Matters arising from the meeting of the Inter-agency Security Management Network; Information and communications tech

Accountability and transparency; Safety and security of staff; United Nations System Staff College; Gender mainstreaming ; Joint session of HLCP and HLCM; Review of the pay and benefits system: Standing of field missions: review of conversion of contractual instruments; Conditions of service of the Professional and higher categories: Children’s and secondary dependant’s allowances: review of the levels; Survey of best prevailing conditions of employment in Rome and New York; Job Evaluation Standards for General Service and related categories; Common scale of staff assessment for locally rec

Base/floor salary scale; Evolution of the United Nations/United States net remuneration margin; Mobility/hardship scheme: review of the operation of the revised scheme, review of the levels; children’s and secondary dependant’s allowances: review of the levels; Assessing the implementation of the Job Evaluation Master Standard for the Professional and higher categories; Progress report on the Senior Management Network; Education grant: (a) Review of the methodology for determining the grant; (b) Review of the level of the grant; Review of the gender balance in the United Nations common syst

Information on upcoming retreat of HR Directors and ICSC; Updates of initiatives undertaken by organizations, HLCM Dialogue with Staff Federations, Cost-sharing for salary surveys, Relocation and Security Evacuation under the Security Level System (SLS).

The agenda of the session focused on: a vision for information and communication technologies (ICT); the security and safety of staff; the reform of the pay and benefits system, geographical balance; consultations with the staff representatives.

Issues discussed included: Dialogue with Representatives of FICSA and CCISUA; Security and Safety of Staff; Measures to improve system-wide mobility; Emergency preparedness and business continuity planning; Procurement; The impact on management and programme of the changing relationship between regular and voluntary funding; Issues brought forward from the networks.

Issues discussed included: Security and safety of staff; Update on the work of the HLCP; The impact on management and programme of the changing relationship between regular and voluntary funding; Measures to improve system-wide mobility, Human resources issues; Information and communication technologies issues.

Issues discussed included: Dialogue with Representatives of FICSA and CCISUA; Security and Safety of Staff; United Nations system collaboration in regard to accountability and transparency; Update on the work of the HLCP, Report of the ICT Network on the elaboration of the United Nations system ICT strategy, Financial and budgetary issues; Human resources issues; United Nations common system issues; Secretariat of CEB. Other matters included: United Nations system medical directors’ group, Rules governing compensation.

Issues Discussed included: Dialogue with representatives of FICSA and CCISU,, Preparations for joint session of HLCM and HLCP; Management reform, Information and communication technology issues; Security and safety of staff; Finance and budget issues; Human resources issues. Other matters covered: United Nations System Staff College; Gender mainstreaming, and women, peace and security; Working methods of HLCM.

The agendas included: Report of the HLCM Technical Working Group on Safety and Security; ICT Network proposal to study the value of two common services initiatives: Communications and Data Centers; Update and discussion on the World Bank's participation in the UN security Network management system; Feedback from the HLCM Chair on the CEB session of 27-28 October.

Issues discussed included: Dialogue with Representatives of FICSA and CCISUA; Cooperation with ICSC; Business Practices; Security and Safety of Staff; Institutional links between HLCM and UN/RIAS – Disclosure of Internal Audit Reports; HLCM Networks; UN Cares; UN Dual Career and Staff Mobility; Staff Management Leadership Development Programme; Jointly-financed Activities; Procedures and criteria for the preparation of agendas and submission of documents for consideration and discussion by the HLCM at its session.

Issues discussed included: Dialogue with FICSA, CCISUA and the United Nations International Civil Servants Federation; Security and safety of staff; Plan of Action for the Harmonization of Business Practices in the United Nations System; Programme of work of the UNDG on management issues; Enhancing collaboration between the HLCM and the JIU; Review of the senior management leadership programme; HLCM networks; Collaboration between the HLCM and the Representatives of Internal Audit Services of the UN-RIAS; Establishing a United Nations system-wide evaluation mechanism; Implementing enterpris

Issues discussed included: Dialogue with FICSA, CCISUA and UNISERV; Security and Safety of Staff; UN Reform on Contractual Arrangements; HLCM Plan of Action for the Harmonization of Business Practices; Mandatory Age of Separation; UN Leaders Programme; HLCM Networks; ICSC Surveys on Performance Management and Inter-Agency Mobility; Healthcare and its Management in the UN System.