Outsourcing Practices in the United Nations

A/RES/54/256View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 118 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2000.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Guidelines Outsourcing Programme Management

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3 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that programme managers are guided by the basic reasons for outsourcing, as indicated in paragraph 4 of his report,4 and the goals, as indicated in paragraph 13 of the report;

Endorses the United Nations guidelines on outsourcing set out in the report of the Secretary-General,⁷ pending consideration of the report requested in paragraph 3 below;

⁷A/53/818, sect. III.

Requests the Secretary-General to define, in a more detailed way and with justification, the criteria for decisions on which activities and services should or should not be outsourced, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session.

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