Direct excerpts from the report of external consultant.

The potential budgetary impact of relocation, including numbers of posts and requirements for start up of relocation, refurbishment and staff entitlements

The workers say that the factories are being transferred to the third world.

After the departure of essential staff that had been brought in on short term assignments to facilitate the relocation, the Gaza headquarters was reduced to some 50 international posts and 100 local posts.

The entire transfer is scheduled to be completed over a six month period.

Progress in implementation of the management review was affected by the headquarters relocation, lack of funds and turnover of key staff.

In the case of appointment and repatriation, staff members will be entitled to unaccompanied shipments or removal, as applicable, under appendix H to the Staff Rules.

The non removal element distinguishes between staff who receive a full household removal and those who receive a limited shipment of personal effects.

34. Reaffirms paragraph 39 of its resolution 61 251 and emphasizes to the Secretary General the importance of effectively managing the multiple staff relocations and ensuring that the swing space meets the highest standards for the safety, security, health and well being of the staff of the United Nations and that any disruption in the work of the United Nations as a result of such temporary relocation is minimized at every stage

Seventy five per cent of households have had to relocate, many on more than one occasion.

Non removal

(c) General administrative matters, including travel of staff, issuance of building passes, approval of documentation in connection with visa status and for office machinery, and the movement and relocation of staff

Matrix of the advantages and disadvantages of the transfer and its impact on the activities of the related departments, divisions and other clients involved with the functions

The latter group supports President Yusuf's relocation plan, while the former is opposed to his relocating to Baidoa.

Having received the proposals of the Working Group with respect to the non removal allowance, the Commission supported the rationale for the payment of the allowance as an advance lump sum upon assignment, as it would better serve its original purpose of assisting staff when full household removal was not applied.

And so suddenly people are moving from small towns to the cities.

(e) Some staff members are entitled to repatriation grants and related expenditures of relocation upon their termination from the Organization based on the number of years of service.

The construction phase of the capital master plan had assumed that staff and delegates would be temporarily relocated into swing space to allow work on the current premises.

The international staff of the Agency's headquarters in Gaza, including the Commissioner General, had been relocated owing to the increasing risks to which they were exposed, causing serious disruption of operations.

In line with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, some staff members are entitled to repatriation grants and related relocation costs upon their termination from the organization, based on the number of years of service.

The State party is requested to provide information to the Committee about the number of individuals who have been resettled under the terms of the 18 November 2002 Presidential Decree and relevant provisions of the Criminal Code, their ethnic origin, the dates and reasons for their resettlement, and their place of residence prior to and following resettlement.

74. Headquarters move.

1. Forced relocation

23. Cost of relocating.

84. Headquarters move.

99. Headquarters move.

A few vulnerable witnesses were relocated.

The Committee further expresses concern about the lack of effective consultations and legal redress for persons affected by forced evictions and demolitions, including those of historic structures, buildings and homes in Lhasa, Tibet.

New equipment would not be installed at Headquarters until it was determined whether the final version of the Capital Master Plan would involve a relocation of staff.

The programme apos s ad hoc responsibilities relating to relocation, which consumed a large portion of its resources in 1996, ended once the secretariat and its staff were fully installed in Bonn.

Return and relocation

Despite the relocation, all regular programme and emergency operations in the Gaza Strip continued, with the Agency's Gaza field office remaining fully staffed.

The relocation plan to transfer members of the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia commenced in February 2005, with the relocation of some parliamentarians to Mogadishu.

The move to Gaza had proved beneficial in terms of cooperation between UNRWA and all local authorities.

The reduction, part of which came about as a result of the departure of international staff hired on one year contracts to facilitate the headquarters move, would generate a staff cost savings of approximately 4 million per annum.

Of this number only 17 people, who are members of two related families, did not agree to relocate.

possible moving costs (removal and installation expenses for staff and for office furniture and equipment). (Such costs, the order of magnitude of which could be in the range of USD 500,000 to USD 700,000, will depend on the location finally chosen for the Secretariat, and on the extent of the host Government apos s contribution towards meeting such costs.

depending on its timing, the relocation from Geneva to the country hosting the Permanent Secretariat may result already in 1998 in some expenditure in terms of removal and purchase of office furniture, equipment and supplies of travel, removal and installation costs of Secretariat staff of temporary assistance for double incumbency of some posts for short periods of time and of rental of premises.

33. Requests the Secretary General to submit to the General Assembly comprehensive information on the availability and cost of and the movement of staff to the hired swing space and to ensure that such space will be available to the United Nations as long as it is required and will entail no additional cost or further staff dislocation, bearing in mind the unique nature of the capital master plan

The estimated number of people being relocated is 20,000 30,000 and most of them are ethnically Kayah.

At the principal headquarters location in Gaza, the initial period after the move was devoted to recruiting local staff to fill vacancies, establishing serviceable communications and computer systems and restoring offices to full working capacity.

The shortfall in funding together with the cost overrun obliged the Agency to advance 3.5 million from the General Fund towards expected move pledges, to complete the move on schedule. The Agency continued to seek funding for the move, particularly from Governments which had actively supported it but had not yet contributed.

Functions that could be transferred to UNLB

(a) The negative factors applying to the relocation of Headquarters posts relating to procurement and logistics, such as difficulties in retaining high quality staff for sustained periods, apply equally to training staff

As was outlined in the previous financial report (see FCCC CP 1996 7, paras. 35 36), the relocation to Bonn required the reassignment of many staff members to different tasks either to take up move related tasks or to ensure that key activities continued throughout the transitional period.