A number of countries reported a shortage of qualified staff.

41. His delegation fully shared the Secretariat s concern regarding the shortage of young staff.

Attention has been drawn to shortage of staff and equipment of the Ministry of Women s Affairs.

However, there remained a shortage of protection staff on the ground and UNHCR management must prioritize protection in its allocation of staff posts.

Shortage of food

Experiencing shortage of food

The shortage of doctors and qualified medical staff in Sierra Leone has led to the prevalence of the quack doctors known as pepper doctors .

In many countries, public administration remains weak largely owing to a shortage of human resources and to deficiencies in staff training and motivation.

(i) Shortage of financial resources

Thus far, the review of current accounts has been completed, while the old outstanding accounts have only partially been completed, owing to the staff shortage.

Despite the goodwill and understanding of all concerned, the implementation of urgently needed staff security measures continues to suffer from a chronic shortage of readily available funds.

There was a shortage of fuel.

(b) A shortage of medical specialists

Is there a shortage of rouge?

A shortage of work. Money problems.

With regard to staff deployments and the shortage of experienced protection field staff, the fast track appointment procedure and emergency team deployments had proved to be useful tools, but yet more flexible mechanisms were required.

quot (b) A shortage of medical specialists

Shortage in extrabudgetary funding

408. More than half of the households surveyed had experienced little shortage of food (53.6 per cent), 27.8 per cent of households had definitely not experienced shortage of food, and 11.8 per cent had experienced shortage of food.

But we have a major shortage of organs.

There is a shortage of good building wood.

Another constraining factor is the shortage of finance.

The limitations on the role of the Court can be structural, jurisdictional or circumstantial. Of the latter, the most obvious and immediate are resource constraints, notably, shortage of staff and money.

Overcoming the shortage of material available in Zambia, students and staff at the University were able to access health literature and information not held in their library. (Source IDRC)

A reason given in the past by the penal system s directorate for not dismissing guards for ill treatment was the severe staff shortage in all prisons.

20. Deficiencies in the original specifications of IMIS and delays in the acceptance of deliverables because of a shortage of qualified staff contributed to time and cost overruns (see paras. 79 and 80).

Sadly, today there is no shortage of human suffering.

There is no shortage of material to work on.

(i) The shortage of information on all health matters

There's a serious shortage of cups aboard this ship.

Well There is no shortage of disasters every year.

(a) A shortage of all forms of first aid treatment

Pollution, energy shortage, environmental diversity, poverty.

The performance of permanent core functions by non UNHCR staff members assigned on a temporary basis as in the 109 deployment cases in 2003 2004 compensates for the shortage of permanent UNHCR posts.

Huge shortage of organs, God forbid, if you need one.

There is an estimated shortage of around 1.5 million vacancies.

quot (a) A shortage of all types of first aid facilities

This is particularly difficult to do effectively when a shortage of funds has limited the recruitment of security professionals to less than 100 persons, to support the deployment of over 30,000 United Nations field staff.

A key constraint is the shortage of strong microfinance institutions (MFIs).

Table 50. Households experiencing shortage of food, by socio economic group

You sound as if you hadn't heard of the man shortage.

Table 52. Households experiencing shortage of food, by category of place of residence

No end in sight for the electricity shortage.

Currently, staff members are not being adequately cross trained within the Unit and are not able to take advantage of potential improvements in treasury products and services owing to a shortage of resources and pressure of work.

The recent shortage of coffee has given rise to a lot of problems.