A/HRC/36/18 7. The Office of Human Resources Management launched an online reporting tool, “HR Insight”, available to all permanent missions in August 2011. Since its launch, staff demographic information has been available to all permanent missions. It is based on the human resources data warehouse and enables the retrieval of information from other human resources systems, including IMIS, Nucleus and Umoja. 8. The first release of the tool provided permanent missions with reports on desirable ranges, a staff list and staff details for their respective nationals, such as composition by sex and type of appointment. Those online reports are updated on a monthly basis (with an approximately three-month time lag) and can be downloaded, enabling permanent missions to gain convenient, instant access to often-requested reports from the Office of Human Resources Management and reducing the need to print and distribute paper copies. As such, the tool helps make the United Nations more environmentally friendly; for example, the list of staff of the Secretariat is available only on this platform, which obviates the need to print thousands of pages per year. 9. Since the first release of the tool, the Office of Human Resources Management has made a number of enhancements, including adding reports that show Member States the separations, appointments and forecast retirements of their nationals, plus a forecast of retirements with respect to all P-5 to D-2 positions. As requested by the General Assembly in paragraph 48 of resolution 67/255, a table showing data on the representation of developing countries for geographical staff per month has been published online. 10. Going forward, the Office of Human Resources Management will work to make more information available online, thereby giving Member States convenient and monthly access to staff demographic information that was previously available only in its annual report, thus reducing the number of pages printed and data duplicated across HR Insight and the report on the composition of the Secretariat. 11. The table in annex I provides a breakdown of all OHCHR staff members in the Professional category and above who have been selected through the established recruitment process (“regular” staff) against both regular budget posts subject to geographical distribution and extrabudgetary posts, by nationality, grade and sex as at 31 December 2016. 12. The table in annex II provides a breakdown of the following categories of additional OHCHR staff in the Professional category and above not included in the table in annex I, also by nationality, grade and sex as at 31 December 2016: (a) Staff holding appointments of less than one year; (b) Staff charged to general temporary assistance funds; (c) Staff employed as technical cooperation project personnel. 13. It should be recalled that in paragraph 14, section IX, of its resolution 63/250, the General Assembly re-emphasized that the system of geographical ranges was designed to apply to countries rather than to regions or groups. This principle was recently reiterated by the Joint Inspection Unit in a comparative analysis and benchmarking framework on staff recruitment in United Nations system organizations, focusing on gender balance and geographical distribution (JIU/NOTE/2012/3). The data in the present report are therefore provided by country and listed in alphabetical order. 14. As at 31 December 2016, OHCHR had a total of 678 staff members in the Professional category and above, of whom 558 are considered regular staff. 15. Nationals from 114 countries are represented in the Professional and above workforce, in both geographical and non-geographical posts. The latter comprise extrabudgetary posts that are not included in the system of desirable ranges (see paragraph 4 above). Of those 114 nationalities, 15 are underrepresented, 1 71 are considered within 1 Underrepresented at 31 December 2016: Afghanistan, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Central African Republic, China, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Japan, Lesotho, Norway, Russian Federation, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). 3