Building performance related accountability

To increase accountability for performance in the implementation of national population programmes.

(e) Strengthen accountability systems for all staff for gender mainstreaming, including through performance appraisals

Enhancing organizational capacity, efficiency, performance, accountability, and results

Third, a higher CEO pay slice is associated with weaker accountability for poor performance.

A. Reconstituting of the Accountability Panel as the Management Performance Board

Without accountability, development performance will not improve, and without performance, international commitments and increased aid cannot be sustained.

I would like to see a system that rewards achievement while insisting on accountability for inadequate performance.

Greater decentralization has been accompanied by increased accountability and monitoring of performance.

One member considered that it would be worthwhile to develop separate pay for performance systems for managers in the United Nations system, as accountability and effective performance were critical for these positions.

For managers, the concept of accountability has an added dimension not only are managers held accountable for their own performance, but they are also held accountable for the performance of their subordinates.

In Malta, accountability for gender mainstreaming is ensured through the performance management contract of senior officials in the public service and the performance management programme of other officers.

23. To focus programme accountability on impact, work plans will contain verifiable performance criteria.

At the institutional level, rules, management systems and administrative procedures should require honest reporting, sharing of information and accountability for performance.

Accountability for results through independent evaluation Internal and external audit a function assumed by UNDP and A staff performance assessment system that links individual staff performance to organizational and development effectiveness.

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

Delegations might consider recommending that integration of women into the system should become a criterion for performance evaluation and accountability of managers.

One effective tool for enhancing accountability and transparency is performance reporting, as it can help various actors understand the impact of various options for action.

The African Group is convinced that mutual accountability will ensure improved development performance and sustained aid increases.

Accountability for national programmes versus accountability for resources provided by United Nations organizations

The World Bank's Public Expenditure Tracking System could be used, as appropriate, as a model for monitoring the performance and accountability of sanitation systems.

It fosters a culture of transparency and accountability and of striving to improve the performance of UNIDO's activities.

My ultimate goal is to create an institutional culture where effective performance, efficiency and accountability are prized objectives.

(e) Accountability for results

There was also a request for clarification on joint consideration of CPDs, funding modalities, financial responsibilities and agency specific accountability, and evaluation and performance reviews.

30. My ultimate goal is to create an institutional culture where effective performance, efficiency and accountability are prized objectives.

He also outlined developments in career management and transition working conditions performance management the development of management skills and accountability.

Objective To improve the design, efficiency and effectiveness of UNIDO services, and to meet accountability requirements on project and programme performance.

Governments may also promote the accountability of private sector contractors by promoting public involvement in monitoring and evaluation of system performance.

We share the view that accountability is imperative to generating mutual trust and ensuring improved development performance and sustained aid increases.

Kenya should benchmark its performance internationally and ensure that a clear system of accountability and responsibility was set up in Government.

It creates a dilemma for accountability.

Accountability provisions for monitoring and evaluating

Independent Review Panel for Accountability for Gender Justice

To provide strategic direction to all components of the Programme, and to improve the performance and assure the accountability of the Organization.

Clearly, in the context of greater decentralization and accountability, there is a need to devote closer attention to project monitoring and performance.

Furthermore, improved performance evaluations, strengthened accountability mechanisms for officials and the establishment of internal controls would also be to the benefit of a better management of the United Nations.

62. With regard to the report on the accountability and responsibility of programme managers (A 48 452), his delegation agreed with CPC that a system of accountability should, as a minimum, clearly allocate responsibilities and provide clear guidelines for the supervision of programme managers and for assessing their performance.

5. Welcomes the efforts of the Commission to strengthen performance and accountability, especially at the senior levels, throughout the common system, and requests the Commission to make recommendations, where appropriate, for increasing the roles of performance and productivity in determining remuneration levels

(d) Reinforcing managers' accountability for their staff.

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

But whatever approach is adopted, we believe that a measure of accountability based on performance should be at the heart of any reform.

Budget performance for 2004

It also responds to the particular importance that UNIDO's Member States attach to RBM as a management tool for improving organizational performance, enhancing transparency of reporting process and thus accountability.

Never before has the Secretariat faced such a fundamental directional change, i.e., from a day to day work driven Organization without clear performance standards to an Organization with clear objectives, defined accountability and performance agreements.