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Structures & Institutional Development Recommendations
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Diversify the advertisement of ICC vacancies in media, email listserves or other means that are
accessible to a larger audience. For example:
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Websites, listserves, blog sites or newsletters of NGO networks, regional or national bar
associations, and national or regional print media in countries under-represented among
Court staff, and
Networks, websites, blog sites or newsletters of national, regional and international
women’s organisations and networks, national or local associations of women police,
national associations of women lawyers, women judges’ associations and women’s
networks within other judicial associations such as the International Bar Association, the
International Criminal Bar and the International Association of Prosecutors.
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The ICC may also consider ‘out-sourcing’ its recruitment activities.
Actively collect Curricula Vitae of competent women and other professionals even when there
are no job openings, and keep them as active files for future hiring processes.
Field Offices
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The Registry should conduct a mid-year assessment and survey on the impact on local
communities of the scaling down and closures of the field offices. The findings of this survey
should be analysed and submitted to the Committee on Budget and Finance at its nineteenth
session from 24 September to 3 October 2012. In 2012, there will be significant changes in
the locations and staffing levels of the ICC field offices. The new composition of the offices
includes retaining the two existing field offices in Kinshasa (DRC) and CAR (Bangui), the forward
field presence in eastern DRC (Bunia), a reduction in the field office in Kampala (Uganda), and
a limited Registry task-force in Kenya. By the end of 2011, the Court will not have any field
presence in Chad (for Darfur) with closure of the two in-country offices. The reorganisation of
the field presence of the Court follows a strategic review carried out by the Field Operations
Section which focused on an increased link between field operations and judicial developments,
as well as on the budget assumptions for 2012. 266 The reduction in field presence will have a
direct impact on the interface between the Court and victims’ communities, inhibit access to
information and reduce direct interactions between local communities and the ICC.
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The ASP should ensure the Field Offices are adequately funded and effectively managed with
stronger coordination within the offices, to ensure they are operating in an efficient manner and
able to perform a range of complex functions.
266 The budget assumptions for 2012 as listed in the Proposed Budget for 2012 are the following: Use of one courtroom team
as, although a number of cases will proceed simultaneously during 2012, trial-hearings will be scheduled consecutively;
Seven investigations in six Situation countries to be conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor, nine residual investigations
and monitoring of eight other potential situations; Reduced number of five field presences for the Registry; and Seven defence
teams and twelve victims' representative teams to receive legal aid during 2012. Proposed Programme Budget for 2012 of the
International Criminal Court, ICC-ASP/10/10, p 2-3, para 12-16.
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