MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES

Harmonization of cost classification and strategic cost management

As part of its innovations, the Office will review and initiate selective studies on the cost effectiveness of business functions, monitor and analyse budgetary and management initiatives in and outside the United Nations, pilot initiatives to promote cost effectiveness, and increase overall awareness of the importance of cost effectiveness.

These initiatives have contributed to efficient management practices.

The Administrator is proposing a range of management initiatives that make it possible to achieve cost reductions, increase delegation of authority and enhance accountability

2005 18 UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery

(e) On the cost side, the investment cost of management improvements.

(b) Population initiatives as a cost efficient means of enhancing development

(i) UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery (DP 2004 36)

Figure 18 Cost of management of the Fund's portfolio by the Investment Management Service

(2009) National Award (ICWAI) for excellence in Cost Management.

Cost sharing processes to institute these best management practices.

Applications and initiatives to support disaster reduction and management and humanitarian efforts

The IT strategy for period 2006 2008 will include cost information on all initiatives.

The total cost of these proposed initiatives in human resources comes to 4.1 million.

Adopted decision 2005 18 of 22 June 2005 on UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery.

The best example is provided by the initiatives in the management of the accounts.

In some of the initiatives such as ERPs, the cost of software is typically a rather small portion of overall cost of implementation.

(c) Management initiatives designed to rationalize business functions, delegate authority, enhance accountability and thereby strengthen the management capacity of the field network

76. The Administrator drew the attention of the Committee to two of his cost reduction initiatives.

The full implementation of strategic cost management and results based budgeting in time for the 2008 2009 biennial support budget will result in an improved delineation of programme and management cost.

Internally, mandatory retirements will soon cost the Agency 50 of its senior management.

The goals of conference management are fourfold quality, quantity, timeliness and cost effectiveness.

While generally considering the cost increases justifiable, they urged circumspection in budget management.

(3) Total costs of Buildings Management are being cost shared between all users.

The UNDP senior management has recommended that the package of decentralized programme management initiatives, including revised appraisal and approval procedures, should be finalized in 1994.

52. Welcomes recent initiatives to promote border management cooperation in drug control between Afghanistan and its neighbours

Ontology in information management is a concept that has been emerging from the various Semantic Web initiatives.

447. Links between population and development were also perceived in terms of the overall cost of development initiatives.

93. The cost estimate provides for the financing of the Integrated Management Information System.

And most of those pertain to the cost of implementing these best management practices.

These discussions include joint initiatives on maritime security, counterterrorism, weapons proliferation, disaster prevention and management, and energy security.

On the one hand, most countries are now involved in internationally agreed initiatives related to sustainable forest management.

The College has undertaken various initiatives aimed at promoting management and leadership development across the United Nations system.

(c) Management actions initiatives undertaken by a local authority to expand coverage of basic infrastructure and or services

The cost of these initiatives is estimated at 4.1 million (paras. 34 37, E ICEF 2006 AB L.1)

Resources should be used cost effectively and accountably, while their management should be constantly improving.

The total cost reduction achieved by United Nations management improvement activities in 2004 was 248,687.

Investment cost describes the resources invested in implementing management improvement measures during the reporting year.

In the document UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery (DP 2004 35), UNDP reported on the outcome of inter agency meetings resulting in a redefinition of cost classifications.

UNEP has also undertaken initiatives to strengthen the capacity of women in rural areas in knowledge sharing and natural resources management, for example in water and sanitation management.

The Committee noted that a number of national initiatives involving space applications for water resource management, including flood management, had been or were being implemented by developing countries.

Management of waste through cost effective and environmentally sound management systems have benefited from partnership projects facilitated by UNDP and regional and national organizations.

In paragraph 204 of the report, UNOPS agreed with the Board's recommendation that it perform a cost benefit analysis for the recommendations made by the strategic advisory groups in order for the change management initiatives to be measured against a substantiated budget and to track the value generated by the change management process.

The increased number of country and organization led initiatives attest to greater collaboration and partnership for sustainable forest management.