Operational services

(a) Operational services

2. Operational services

Several initiatives started during the last biennium affected management and operational services and brought about a rationalized division of responsibilities and clustered operational support.

(b) Operational Services Division

Administrative and operational services

11. The breakdown of 1996 1997 expenditure is shown in statement I. It comprised 492.8 million for programme expenditure, including technical support services, administrative and operational services and UNFPA support costs, and 111.1 million for the biennial support budget (administrative and programme support services), after credits of 10.8 million earned for programme support services were taken into account.

Operational and technical programme services

Department of Operational Technical Services

Sector Operational Support

109. The range of operational support services required by United Nations system agencies active in the field is extensive.

Relief and social services Operational servicesc

VII. Joint operational support

In addition to providing global secure police communication services and databases, we also offer operational police support to our members.

While the force headquarters and the integrated support services reached operational readiness roughly on schedule, the delays described above retarded the deployment of protection and enabling forces in the seven operational sectors.

Following an extensive review UNFPA is revising its operational guidelines for the technical support services system and these will be issued in 1998.

Support services Contractual services (breakdown)

Private military and security companies offered a diverse range of services, from military advice and training to arms procurement, intelligence gathering, logistical and medical support, and combat and operational support.

Table 18 Operational Technical Services Resource Requirements by Activity

(c) Continuation and improvement of services in operational meteorology

63. The Operational Services Division is divided into clusters.

Each operational unit will be fire walled' as an autonomous profit centre', backed up by support services provided against an activity based costing model.

Support services

Operational activities in support of normative principles

Common support services

Support Services Service

Other support services

Operations support services

Online Services support

Integrated Support Services

Logistic Support Services

Electronic Support Services

26D. Support services

Administrative Support Services

Administration, Support Services

2. Support services

Support to operational activities of the United Nations

Support to operational activities of the United Nations

They were introduced by the Director of the Division of Operational Support, the Controller and Director of Financial and Information Services, and the NGO Coordinator, respectively.

1.181 The goal of the Operational Technical Services Department (OTSD) is to support the Agency's main programmes through the provision of integrated operational support services in procurement and logistics, information and communications technology (ICT), engineering and construction guided by comprehensive policies and overall strategy to achieve optimal quality and best value for money in providing humanitarian assistance to Palestine refugees.

1.198 The structure of the Operational Technical Services is as follows

To that end it comprises three main operational components, namely, the Division of Safety and Security Services, the Division of Regional Operations and the Field Support Service.

In operational terms, the progressive establishment of regional service centres in support of country offices will further ensure speed of services to programme countries in all regions.

60. Lastly, operational activities must have adequate financial support.

(v) User support technical and operational support for servers, personal computers and mobile devices connected to the United Nations Headquarters network provision of electronic messaging services involving facsimile messages, telex and cable services provision of system support for all central software application, such as IMIS, ODS, e mail, Galaxy and the Internet Intranet