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of appointment. Those online reports are updated on a monthly basis (with an approximate
three-month time delay) and may be downloaded; permanent missions thus have
convenient, instant access to often-requested data or reports. The full list of staff of the
Secretariat is now available exclusively on this platform. Since the first release of the tool,
the Office of Human Resources Management has made a number of enhancements, such as
adding reports that show Member States the separations, appointments and forecasted
retirement of their nationals, as well as the forecasted retirement of all P-5 to D-2 staff
members. Pursuant to the request of the General Assembly contained in paragraph 48 of its
resolution 67/255, a new table showing data on representation of developing countries for
geographical staff per quarter has been published online. With HR Insight, Member States
therefore have access to information similar to that contained in a Secretariat report (or in
the present one), but at the level of staff members, unlike composition reports, which show
the information at the aggregated level and are only issued annually. At the time of
preparation of the latest report of the Secretary-General on the composition of the
Secretariat, there were more than 300 users in permanent missions who, in the reporting
period from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013, had used the tool to produce nearly 4,500 reports.
8.
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 2013.
9.
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 by
nationality, grade and sex as at 31 December 2013:
(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.
10.
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.
11.
As at 31 December 2013, OHCHR had a total of 579 staff members in the
Professional category and above, of whom 503 are considered regular staff.
12.
Nationals from 117 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 under the system of desirable ranges (see
paragraph 4 above). Of these 117 nationalities, 14 are underrepresented,1 81 are considered
within range,2 while 22 nationalities are overrepresented3 in the Secretariat. OHCHR also
has nationals from the State of Palestine on staff.
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Underrepresented at 31 December 2013: Afghanistan, Brazil, Chad, China, Czech Republic,
Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Turkey and the United States of America.
Within range at 31 December 2013: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Benin,
Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cambodia, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus,
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