UN Budget and Prepare to Reduce Jobs
Although the UN workload increased in the year, Resources are decreasing in all sectors, It is not fully paying annual responsibilities and most of them do not pay for the time.
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UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday “Difficult and uncomfortable decisions” To deal with the financing crisis going through the company, “Significant reductions” In budget and job cuts.
At an informal meeting of the United Nations Plenary (UN) to describe the shapes of “UN80 initiative” – Project targeting structural changes in a multilateral organization -, Guterres defended the need for merging, eliminating functional and structural counterfeits and reducing functions in other parts of the system.
These cuts allow to remove, for example, “20% of posts” In the United Nations’s political affairs and peace consolidation (in the DPPA, Ekonim) and peace management activities (DPO), he explained.
Oh The project provides for a similar exercise of the rationalization of the Civil Part of the DPO And all terrorism activities are particularly concentrated in the United Nations terrorist office.
Before another, UN Secretariat Entities in New York and Geneva have been asked to review their duties To find out whether there is any of them “It can be done in very low -caust places or can be reduced or canceled.”
“By moving posts from high -ranks, we can” reduce our trade presence in some cities and reduce our costs, “he said.
Guterres suggested that they were already picking up “Significant savings” In New York – The city where the UN headquarters is – when the lease of the building and the transfer of employees to existing facilities.
“We hope to close two more buildings when their lease contracts expire in 2027,” he said.
Although the UN Regular Budget is in the immediate focus of the former Portuguese prime minister, efficiency will be in efforts “Total Secretariat in all financing currents.”
“We hope that we have considerable deductions at the general budget level”.
UN was influenced by Trump’s inauguration
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Guterres’s initiative comes at the moment The United Nations celebrated their 80th anniversaryAnd during serious doubts about food assistance, along with other factors, to deal with the ability of the organization that works in the conflict solution, the most harmful or deal with.
“These are the times of dangers. But they are in deep opportunities and responsibilities. The United Nations mission is more imperative than ever before,” said the UN leader today, to make the company more effective, simplifying the procedures, eliminating the overlap and increasing transparency and accountability.
“The liquidity crisis we now face is not new. But the current economic and political situation increases the need for our efforts. We are facing real threats for the structure, values, principles and stability of polygamy. (…) We must be up to this moment.”
In his statement, Guterres suggested that the size of the reports produced by the UN success or not by the number of meetings it called, but “It makes in people’s lives.”
Although the UN workload increased in the year, Resources are decreasing in all sectors, It is not fully paying annual responsibilities and most of them do not pay for the time.
