Accountability framework

(c) Accountability framework.

The accountability framework

Measures to strengthen the accountability framework

An essential component of the accountability framework is the clear and meaningful measurement of programme delivery.

On completion of this process, the revised accountability framework will be reported to the General Assembly.

The Public Administration Act, enacted in 2001, brought in a new management framework focused on results and increased accountability.

Agrawal, A and Ribot J. 1999. Accountability in Decentralization A Framework with South Asian and West African Environmental Cases.

The General Assembly may wish to take note of this report, including of the fact that new elements are being added to the accountability framework that will strengthen accountability in the Secretariat.

The security management accountability framework had been discussed in detail at the annual meeting of the Inter Agency Security Management Network.

Believing that such a decentralized mission required appropriate lines of authority and accountability, the United States agreed with the Advisory Committee that UNMIS should clarify the responsibilities of headquarters and regional offices through an accountability framework.

As part of the overall accountability framework, the e PAS is the formal tool employed in holding staff accountable for their performance.

To improve the performance and assure the accountability of the Organization by designing, maintaining, operating and monitoring the management control framework of UNIDO.

The Secretary General had been requested to submit to the General Assembly at its current session a revised United Nations security management accountability framework.

Welcoming the report of the Secretary General on a framework for accountability for the United Nations field security management system,A 57 365. in which a new mechanism to ensure accountability and responsibility in the area of field security is introduced,

The Network had developed a robust security management accountability framework, which had been submitted to the High Level Committee on Management in early October 2005.

In his report on measures to strengthen accountability at the United Nations, the Secretary General describes a number of initiatives he has undertaken or plans to undertake to strengthen the accountability framework and oversight mechanisms, as well as ensure ethical conduct and transparency.

The implementation report should also contain information on the revised security management accountability framework as well as on the review of all existing host country agreements.

Nonetheless, it believed that the framework should be implemented progressively, fully respecting the rules and regulations governing programme planning. Accountability mechanisms also needed to be strengthened.

Lithuania is convinced that accountability, transparency, irreversibility and confidence building are fundamental principles that constitute an indispensable framework within which to further the implementation of article VI.

The European Union would also welcome further information on the status of the revised United Nations security management accountability framework, which should be completed as soon as possible.

In the longer term (as part of the organization development process), the Agency intends to establish a more comprehensive accountability framework that will address this and similar problems.

Furthermore, it was important to consider the framework of corporate accountability and to examine the relationship between voluntary and regulatory approaches so as to ascertain the complementarities between them.

The office, inter alia, advises the other programmes on programmatic issues and the Organization's accountability framework to ensure the judicious and effective use of resources, as well as on the programmatic and financial reporting to the governing bodies, including the medium term programme framework.

The Secretary General is therefore taking additional actions where it is within his authority to do so, particularly in the critical areas of the accountability framework, oversight, ethics and transparency.

UNMIS had a unique, decentralized organizational structure which required it to develop an accountability framework specifying the respective responsibilities of headquarters and regional offices for both substantive and administrative work.

Developing countries should be accorded policy space to develop their own strategies tailored to their developmental needs, within a framework that provides for accountability, transparency and integrity in the system.

The revised accountability framework will now be submitted to the High level Committee for Management and then to the United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) for their review.

Accountability

Accountability

The policy framework reflects High level Governmental Commitments in five important areas, namely (1) universal access (2) community based health services (3) family planning (4) decentralized management (5) local financial accountability.

13. Requests the Secretary General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session an accountability framework for the United Nations security management system as a whole, which would, inter alia

The accountability framework at the United Nations is based on a hierarchy headed by the General Assembly that flows through the Secretary General, senior managers and middle management to all other staff.

States, entities of the United Nations system, non governmental organizations, civil society, researchers and individual women are using this framework for preventing and responding to violence against women and for enhancing accountability.

Experts agreed on the need for a comprehensive, coordinated and holistic approach to prevent and eliminate violence against women that addresses such violence in a human rights framework and ensures State accountability.

The Board also recommends that UNOPS consider, within its resource constraints, the establishment of an accountability framework so that control procedures are performed to ensure that data are valid, accurate and complete.

In the framework of enhanced coordination and accountability, the action plan will be utilized by intergovernmental and inter agency bodies as a yardstick against which to assess periodically the United Nations system's efforts.

This, together with my announcement to establish a Management Oversight Committee and other initiatives to strengthen integrity, accountability and oversight, provides a solid foundation for an improved internal governance framework for the Organization.

E. Accountability mechanisms

Accountability and oversight

Autonomy and accountability

Accountability and transparency

Transparency and accountability ___________

Accountability and incentives

Decentralization requires accountability at all levels and corresponding multiple accountability mechanisms elections alone are insufficient.