Staff and administrative questions

Abstract

By resolution 242 (XI) of 23 February 1973 and a number of subsequent decisions relating to personnel and administrative questions, the Conference of Ministers requested the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to provide biennial reports on issues of general administration and personnel management of interest to member States. This report is therefore submitted in compliance with those decisions as an update of the last report submitted to the Conference in 1989. The report specifically covers activities in the area of personnel management financial resources availability; and progress made in the implementation of the additional conference facilities construction project. For a better understanding of the staffing situation in the ECA secretariat, detailed statistical information is provided in the annexes to this report. It should be pointed out from the outset that in the area of personnel, this report deals only with professional posts in the category which is subject to the principle of geographical distribution.