16th Meeting of Senior Fellowships Officers of the ... - Development

7 Annexes
Annex I: Conclusions and Recommendations of the 16th Meeting
of Senior Fellowships Officers of the United Nations System and
Host Country Agencies
1. The Meeting acknowledges with appreciation the participation and contributions of
dignitaries, Hon. Dr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic
of Namibia and President of the 54th Session of the UN General Assembly
as well as Deputy Assistant Director General of UNESCO, Mr. James Michael Kulikowski
at the 16th Meeting of Senior Fellowship Officers (SFOs) of the UN System
Agencies.
2. The Meeting notes with satisfaction that their Agencies had adhered to the harmonized
policies and procedures agreed upon at the 15th Meeting of SFOs, except those which
had financial implications.
3. Participants recommends that Senior Fellowships Officers continue to take the necessary
steps in their respective organizations to convey the decisions taken both at the 15th
(2004) and 16th (2006) Meetings to their Senior Management in order to facilitate the
consultative process to be carried out by the Chief Executives Board (CEB) for the approval,
in particular, of all common agreed standards having financial implications.
4. The Meeting urges the CEB High Level Committee on Management (HLCM) to take
the necessary steps to have the recommendations of the 15th and 16th Meetings of
SFOs approved by all UN System Agencies in order to achieve harmonization of Fellowship
procedures and entitlements.
5. UN/DESA offeres to publish a booklet for Fellowship Officers with all the harmonized
procedures and entitlements on Fellowships, Study Tours and Group Training as soon
as they are approved by Agencies through CEB/HLCM.
6. The Meeting recommendes “Fellowships Impact Assessment” as one of the major agenda
items for the 17th Meeting (2008).
7. In the framework of South-South cooperation, Agencies are encouraged to share information
on Training Institutions/Centers of Excellence in the South for posting on the
common DESA Fellowships website.
8. Agencies are encouraged to use the e-forum (http://esa.un.org/techcoop) designed by
DESA to conduct e-conferencing on issues of common interest. The Task Force on
Fellowships Impact Assessment, which has been established by this Meeting, may also
use it as a valuable and efficient tool.
9. The Meeting takes note of the requirement that all UN trainees take the Advanced
Security in the Field course (in addition to Basic module) when assigned in countries
with security phase I and above as well as of the need to obtain a security clearance for
Group Training.