Examples of using Some programme managers in English and their translations into Arabic
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The report notes that some programme managers may make exceptions.
Some programme managers highlighted the lack of competitiveness of the remuneration levels currently applicable in their organizations.
The Committee also recalls that thisdifficult issue had been raised by some programme managers during the budget consideration process.
CPC had requested some programme managers to submit a new list of outputs to be terminated.
Concern was expressed that in nearly half the sections not one obsolete output had been presented,leaving the impression that some programme managers did not respond appropriately to this requirement.
This was the result of the failure of some programme managers to ensure the proper collection and validation of the portfolio of evidence.
It would be interesting to know how much money could have been saved if the recommendations had been implemented on time andwhy it had taken some programme managers five years or more to act on recommendations.
This has been manifested in the quality of compliance of some programme managers with the instructions for the preparation of submissions relating to their programme performance.
Some programme managers were not familiar with the role and added value of those elements in the context of the programmes under their responsibilities.
Although a modest start,it has benefited immensely from the commitment and collaboration of some programme managers and the support of external partnerships established over the past two years.
Some programme managers have felt that limiting the number of expected accomplishments and indicators of achievement would not capture the multifaceted aspects nor the complexity of the work undertaken to ensure attainment of the objective.
Because of the scheduling of the meetings of sectoral,regional and central intergovernmental bodies, some programme managers will have submitted the relevant portions of the proposed medium-term plan to those bodies during 1999.
On the other hand, some programme managers still fear that they are being given responsibility for some tasks, without related authority, and that administrative tasks are being shed onto substantive departments under the guise of delegation of authority.
The Advisory Committee is aware that the persistent vacancy situation in United Nations offices anddepartments has often led some programme managers to resort to employing short-term staff and consultants in order to implement work programmes. .
Some programme managers admitted that ultimately, they did not always recognize their programmes in the uniform description which the budget officers chose to provide, largely because of the limits placed on space in the reporting forms.
His delegation believed that the root of the problem was reflected in General Assembly resolution55/258, section IV, paragraph 12, which states that some programme managers were still reluctant to recruit candidates selected through national competitive examinations.
Further, it is the practice of some programme managers to programme their participation in Administrative Committee on Coordination-related meetings by combining them with other programmed activities, thus avoiding additional non-staff costs.
The Committee realized that a systematic exercise of measurement was the only opportunity for systematic control of the effectiveness of implementation of mandated activities to be carried out under a programme budget,and the only tool of control available for some programme managers.
However, the Inspectors would not subscribe to the view of some programme managers that a service, such as conference room set-up facilities, never before provided internally, should remain permanently outsourced.
In 2003, the Committee for Programme and Coordination, when reviewing the Secretary-General ' s proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005, acknowledged that 912 outputs hadbeen proposed for discontinuation but noted that some programme managers had not responded appropriately.
The point was also made in survey comments, in which some programme managers referred to the need for senior managers in the Secretariat to accept greater responsibility for it.
Some programme managers who were interviewed suggested that responsibility for gender mainstreaming was implied under the e-PAS goal" respect for diversity", but believed that this was insufficiently specific and not assessed.
Periodic progress and other reports were typically prepared within the gender unit orits equivalent, but some programme managers who were required to submit reports expressed frustration at having to" graft" gender references onto activities that may have integrated them superficially at best.
Some programme managers believed that time and other resource constraints meant that gender mainstreaming their daily work was a low priority, and some felt that gender specialists and subject specialists did not sufficiently understand each other.
The Committee was informed that a further constraint to placing successful national competitive examination candidateswas the lack of a prompt decision on the part of some programme managers in selecting from the roster when a vacancy arose and the lack of a centralized system where placement was managed, coordinated and closely monitored.
Finally, some programme managers attributed this lack of incisiveness and concern over such matters on the part of Member States to a lack of appropriate substantive expertise, in that often Member States were represented by local delegations whose work necessarily covered a wide range of substantive areas and institutions.
Regrets that despite section V, paragraph 19, of its resolution 53/221 and according to paragraph 52 of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the Secretariat on the follow-up audit of the recruitmentprocess in the Office of Human Resources Management, some programme managers are still reluctant to recruit candidates selected through national competitive examinations, leaving many P-2 posts vacant, and requests the Secretary-General to take concrete measures to fill those posts expeditiously from the existing roster of successful candidates;
The Committee has reflected concerns expressed by some programme managers of the regional commissions regarding the possible impact of the proposed staffing reductions in the individual sections in the present report and has noted the assurances of the Secretary-General that mandates will be delivered in full(see also chap. I, para. 25).
For example, in many instances, the Inspectors noted that while some programme managers perceive RBM as a management tool, others perceive it as a budgetary technique or even as a mere bureaucratic requirement to justify their resources.