(e) Accountability for results

Determining an optimal level of accountability for results is also challenging.

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

Transparency, proper coordination and accountability are crucial for achieving better and faster results.

Mainstreaming gender is a strategy for achieving this overall objective with greater accountability for results.

The absence or failure of accountability mechanisms results in impunity.

(ii) Delegation of authority and accountability part II series on managing for results in the United Nations system (A 59 631)

Inherent in the delegation of responsibility is accountability for the results achieved and the way in which assignments are carried out.

It also concurred with the Advisory Committee that there was a need to strengthen the accountability framework for the achievement of results.

Its new rules were transparency, optimal development of resources, streamlined methods, results based management and accountability.

Strengthening and increasing accountability for delivering development results and effective resources management will remain critical areas of attention for these offices in the next biennium.

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

Results based management is now recognized across the United Nations system as a way to strengthen performance and accountability for deployment of human and financial resources as well as achieve substantive results.

It also called for enhancing organizational capacity and staff development to promote efficiency at all levels to deliver results and strengthen accountability mechanisms.

Concerning accountability, she noted that there were agency specific results for which each agency would be responsible and accountable, including to their respective Executive Boards.

A results based accountability analysis of provincial employment programs, which concluded in 2004, found that employment interventions showed strong results in improving the labour market success of participants.

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

Congruence would also enhance accountability by ensuring that responsibility is clearly identified for the delivery of a programme and for achieving the results the programme is meant to produce.

The oversight and accountability framework of UNDP (outlined at the beginning of this section), hinges on results based management principles.

It creates a dilemma for accountability.

Accountability provisions for monitoring and evaluating

With the increasing emphasis on results and the demand of Member States for accountability, it is absolutely essential to provide specific guidelines and objectives for achieving greater productivity and efficiency.

Results based budgeting was not an objective in itself but rather a tool for achieving greater accountability in implementing programmes in accordance with clear indicators of output.

Independent Review Panel for Accountability for Gender Justice

Shared responsibility and mutual accountability constitute the basic foundation, but we must get the partnership to work and show concrete results.

Either the existing system of accountability and responsibility was not being properly implemented or it was not producing the desired results.

(d) Reinforcing managers' accountability for their staff.

In the area of accountability for results, UNCDF finalized, in early 2004, the independent impact assessment that was presented to the Executive Board at its annual session in June.

Noting that much of the section on transparency and accountability dealt with the accountability of author departments for document submission, delegations asked how such accountability was enforced.

Civil society should agitate for action and accountability.

We share accountability for getting the job done.

Mechanisms for accountability were neither clear nor adequate.

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Managing for Results in the United Nations system Overview Part I Implementation of results based management in the United Nations organizations Part II Delegation of authority and accountability Part III Managing performance and contracts (JIU REP 2004 5, 6, 7 and 8).

In the present climate, in which many organizations are decentralizing and delegating authority, there is greater responsibility on managers as key drivers of change, together with enhanced accountability for results.

But it is tragic to spend so much money and then accomplish next to nothing in terms of concrete results and honest accountability.

10 See the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness Ownership, Harmonization, Alignment, Results and Mutual Accountability , on the more recent trends in this domain.

It was gratifying that UNHCR was striving to increase its organizational efficiency through targeted planning, results based management, strengthened oversight and improved accountability.

One of the chief weaknesses in Russia's constitutional design is that power is separated from accountability the president has the most power, but the government is held accountable for policy results.

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.

The Secretariat should reflect carefully on how to improve the operation of results based management, which was inseparable from an accurate system of accountability.

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Different results for signatures

The next point is the need for political accountability.