Annex 2: 1995 Work programme and preliminary work programme for 1996 and beyond
A. Management. budgetary and administrative issues
1. An investigation into the management-Staff Union relationship in the United Nations system
2. Advancement of women through and in the programmes of the United Nations system: what happens after the Fourth World Conference on Women
3. Management in the United Nations Secretariat
4. Common services of United Nations organizations in New York
5. A system-wide comparative review of methods of geographical distribution
6. Travel in the United Nations: issues of efficiency and cost savings
7. United Nations access control system (card access system)
8. Inspection of the application of United Nations recruitment, placement and promotion policies: part II - placement and promotion
B. Operational activities for development
1. United Nations system development cooperation in science and technology: Latin America and the Caribbean
2. Evaluation of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s
C. Peace-keeping and related operations
1. Military component of United Nations peace operations
2. Strengthening the United Nations system's capacity for conflict prevention
D. Humanitarian assistance
1. Investigation of the relationship between humanitarian assistance and peace-keeping operations
2. Involvement of the United Nations system in providing and coordinating humanitarian assistance
Preliminary work programme for 1996 and beyond
A. Management, budgetary and administrative issues
1. Common services in Geneva: part II (initiated internally)
2. Use of information technology in the United Nations system (initiated internally)
3. Inspection of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) (initiated internally)
4. System-wide review of ways to improve programming methodology: system-wide review of planning, programming and budgeting procedures (suggested by ESCWA)
5. Review of procurement policies and procedures (suggested by FAO)
6. A review of printing arrangements within the United Nations system (suggested by FAO)
7. Costs involved for the system as a whole in preparing and disseminating the larger number of reports and studies mandated by General Assembly and Economic and Social Council resolutions (suggested by the World Food Programme)
8. Cost/benefit analysis of the restructuring of the United Nations Secretariat and related efforts to streamline United Nations activities (suggested by OIOS)
9. Investigation of the Centre for Human Rights (suggested by OIOS)
10. Construction of a United Nations Conference Centre at Addis Ababa for the Economic Commission for Africa and at Bangkok for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (suggested by the Office of Conference and Support Services of the United Nations Secretariat)
11. Subcontracting in the United Nations system (initiated internally)
12. An analysis of the number, size and cost of conferences, seminars, workshops and other meetings and gatherings in the technical cooperation programmes of the United Nations system (suggested by UNDP)
B. Development and cooperation
1. Relationship between the funding agencies of the United Nations system and the United Nations Secretariat, particularly regional commissions and the United Nations Population Fund (suggested by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
2. Cooperation between Global Environment Facility implementing agencies and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system (suggested by FAO)
3. Financial and administrative applications of a meaningful UNDP presence and activities in the net contributor countries (suggested by UNDP)
4. Strengthening field representation and operations in the context of decentralization of organizations within the United Nations system (follow-up Note) (suggested by UNIDO)
C. Peace-keeping and related operations
1. Problems of the start-up phase of peace-keeping operations (upon specific request from the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session)
2. Coordination at Headquarters and field level, within the framework of "An Agenda for Peace", between the United Nations agencies in peace-building: an assessment of the possibilities (suggested by UNESCO)
3. Peace-keeping operations office and living-quarters camps; budgeting, procurement, management and removal from one mission and reinstallation in another mission (initiated internally)
D. Humanitarian affairs and related operations
1. An assessment of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat and other bodies concerned on their humanitarian activities (initiated internally)
