Human Resources Management

A/RES/66/234View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 139 Human resources management, published in 2012.

What else is in this group?

22 documents · 1995–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/280	Human resources management	194	–
2023	A/RES/77/278	Human resources management	4,540	–
2018	A/RES/72/254	Human resources management	501	–
2017	A/RES/71/263	Human resources management	2,644	–
2014	A/RES/68/252	Human resources management	1,762	–

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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2012–2019

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2019	A/74/82	Composition of the Secretariat : staff demographics report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/234
2018	A/73/79	Composition of the Secretariat : staff demographics report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/234
2017	A/72/123	Composition of the Secretariat : staff demographics report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/234
2016	A/71/360	Composition of the Secretariat : staff demographics report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/234
2015	A/70/605	Composition of the Secretariat : staff demographics report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/234

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Career Appointments Geographical Distribution Performance Standards Personnel Management Recruitment Rules and Regulations Staffing

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Expresses serious concern that progress towards the goal of 50/50 gender balance in the United Nations system, especially at senior and policymaking levels, in conformity with Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, has been slow;

Reiterates its requests to the Secretary-General to increase his efforts to attain and monitor the goal of gender parity in the Secretariat, in particular at senior levels, and in this context to ensure that women, especially those from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, are appropriately represented within the Secretariat, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session;

Reiterates that the Secretary-General has to ensure that the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity serve as the paramount consideration in the employment of staff, with due regard to the principle of equitable geographical distribution, in accordance with Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to continue his ongoing efforts to ensure the attainment of equitable geographical distribution in the Secretariat and to also ensure as wide a geographical distribution of staff as possible in all departments, offices and levels, including at the Director and higher levels, of the Secretariat, and in that regard reiterates its request contained in paragraph 64 of resolution 65/247;

Urges the Secretary-General to ensure that the recruitment of candidates is carried out in accordance with the established recruitment procedures, including through the use of the national competitive recruitment examination roster, which has been replaced by the young professionals programme;

Recalls paragraph 7 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,⁶ and requests the Secretary-General to address the problem of the high number of posts subject to the system of geographical ranges not encumbered by staff having geographical status;

⁶A/66/511 and Corr.1.

Stresses that the Secretary-General should not recur to the practice of temporarily filling posts in the Professional and higher categories with General Service staff members who have not passed the General Service to Professional category examination other than on an exceptional basis, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that temporary occupation of such posts by the General Service staff shall not exceed a period of one year, effective 1 January 2013, and to report thereon, including on the rationale for such practice, to the General Assembly every two years, starting at its sixty-seventh session;

Takes note of paragraph 8 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions referred to in paragraph 7 above, reiterates section VII of resolution 65/247, and looks forward to the report of the Secretary-General on human resources management, which should include, inter alia, details on the implementation of that resolution, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session;

Welcomes the launch of the online reporting tool entitled “HR Insight”, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the information provided on the portal is systematically developed and periodically updated;

Requests the Secretary-General, in the context of his report on the activities of the Ethics Office to be submitted during the main part of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly, to provide information on his efforts to address and mitigate personal conflicts of interest, and in this regard requests him to propose measures such as the extension to other staff categories of the financial disclosure programme and post-employment restrictions;

Decides that staff regulation 1.2 (m) shall be amended to read:

“A conflict of interest occurs when, by act or omission, a staff member’s personal interests interfere with the performance of his or her official duties and responsibilities or with the integrity, independence and impartiality required by the staff member’s status as an international civil servant. When an actual or possible conflict of interest does arise, the conflict shall be disclosed by staff members to their head of office, mitigated by the Organization and resolved in favour of the interests of the Organization”;

Welcomes the significant efforts made by the Ethics Office towards the implementation of the financial disclosure programme, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure full compliance by staff in fulfilling their financial disclosure requirements;

Decides to absorb the amount of 398,300 United States dollars for the development of the information technology platform within the amount of 3,880,100 dollars allocated to the Ethics Office in the regular budget for the biennium 2012–2013;

Recognizes the work of the Joint Inspection Unit, and in this regard takes note of the report of the Unit on inter-agency staff mobility and work-life balance in the organizations of the United Nations system;3

Requests the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chair of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to expedite the conclusion of a revised version of the inter-agency agreement on inter-organization movement and to ensure its utilization by all organizations of the United Nations common system;

Recalls section C, paragraph 13, of its resolution 65/248 of 24 December 2010;

Also recalls section II, paragraph 34, of its resolution 65/247, and looks forward to its consideration of a comprehensive proposal on a mobility policy at its sixty-seventh session.

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