III. Senior posts

Other senior positions

In the corporate sector, women at the top, C level jobs, board seats tops out at 15, 16 percent.

The two other senior posts will be maintained at the D 2 level.

(e) Practice and procedures for appointments at the senior level

There had been recent high level UNDP appointments of women to senior management positions.

In this respect, an upward reclassification of one P5 post to the D1 level is proposed.

In the public domain, women are less likely to achieve senior positions.

It was not signed for the sole purpose of granting the RUF amnesty or for giving its members cabinet and other high level posts.

Classification of post

An upward reclassification of one P5 post to the D1 level is included in the budget proposal.

8. Gratis personnel should not occupy senior posts, especially at the policy making levels.

61. Decides to approve seven P 5 positions for Senior Revisers at United Nations Headquarters in New York

Approves the staffing table for the programme budget, including the post of the Executive Secretary at the level of Assistant Secretary General and two other senior posts at the level of D 2, as contained in Table 2 below

2. Approves the staffing table for the programme budget, including the post of the Executive Secretary at the level of Assistant Secretary General and two other senior posts at the level of D 2, as contained in table 2 below

Ministerial posts

The Japanese delegation considered that the structure of posts in the Secretariat needed to be altered, since there were too many posts at the higher levels.

Current 2004 data indicates progress in employing women in high ranking positions within the IBA there are now 14 women in high ranking positions in the Hebrew television and 7 in the Hebrew and Arabic radio there are also 11 women in high ranking positions in the IBA headquarters.

Data on number of women taking highest positions of executive authorities at state, federal and cantonal level show that there is a very small number of women bearers of highest positions in the executive authorities.

She wondered what factors were preventing them from rising to higher positions.

This would be a new position and an important part of the senior management team.

While the involvement of women in senior management positions has improved greatly since the last report, women are still under represented in senior positions.

1. Reaffirms that no post should be considered the exclusive preserve of any Member State or group of States, including at the highest level

It disagreed with the conversion of the Assistant High Commissioner post into a Deputy High Commissioner post, opting instead to create a new Assistant High Commissioner for Protection a decision has yet to be taken by the Executive Committee on this, as well as on the introduction of biennial budgeting and reform of the Inspector General's Office.

Within the Second Authority itself, women make up 66.6 (4 of 6) of the high ranking positions.

Decision on a proposal to create a post of Assistant High Commissioner (Protection)

(f) Requests that the High Commissioner or Inspector General provide early statements on significant investigations and inquiries

The post of Management and Planning Officer has been established in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, although at a lower level than had been recommended, given severe resource constraints.

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The establishment of a special high level post in the Office of the Secretary General had been recommended and implemented.

Notwithstanding this suspension, the Ministry of the Interior kept one of the Civil Guards on active duty in a senior post.

The 1996 1997 post classification exercise to which the representative of Cuba had also referred was linked not to individuals but to the functional requirements of the posts in question.

The unit would also comprise four General Service posts.

Constitution of the Niger of 18 July 1999 promulgated by Decree No. 99 PCRN of 9 August 1999

Currently, at the senior management level in the Office, developing countries are well represented since four out of seven posts subject to geographical distribution at the D 1 level and above are encumbered by staff from developing countries.

Office Functional title Post Funding

However, the percentage of women occupying senior positions in both public and political sectors is rather small.

They urged UNDP to avoid the upward reclassification of posts save for exceptional circumstances.

Source Calculations based on data from the senior post lists for May 1993 and March 1995.

The low representation of women at the senior and decision making levels was identified as a particular area of concern.

With regard to the High Commissioner's revised proposal on the establishment of a post of AHC for Protection, efforts had been made to define more clearly the linkages with the Department of Operations and the Field and to distribute responsibilities more evenly between the current and the proposed AHC positions.

The protection mandate entrusted to UNHCR by the international community placed the High Commissioner in a special position to exercise international leadership in refugee matters.

Special post allowances should be restricted to exceptional circumstances when a staff member at a lower grade was temporarily performing functions at a higher grade pending the filling of the post at its appropriate level.

For the period 2003 2004, an ambassador's network for women in senior positions in the healthcare sector has been set up.

A senior civil society position will be created in OHCHR and tasked with providing leadership on this issue.