UN Humanitarian Wing OCHA Lays Off 170, Starts Overhaul

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Mon, 2017-01-16 22:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Stephen O'Brien visits a camp in Saint Saveur, Central African Republic. Nektarios Markogiannis/MINUSCA

CLICK HERE - OCHA Functional Review - Final Report - 29 July 2016 (155 page .PDF report)

irinnews.org - by Samuel Oakford - 16 January 2017

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will reduce spending by at least $20 million in 2017. The 10-percent cuts, including at least 173 staff layoffs, come along with an internal reform process sparked by a damning independent review.

In notes dated November addressed to OCHA staff and exclusively reported by IRIN, its head – UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien – said donors hadn’t met growing demands.

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UN - Office of Internal Oversight Services - Internal Audit Reports
(click on the link below, and scroll to the bottom . . . click on page 2 for the most recently published .PDFs)
https://oios.un.org/page?slug=report

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SEE THE FOLLOWING AUDIT WITHIN THE ATTACHMENT BELOW . . .

OIOS - Internal Audit Division - Report 2016/127

Audit of management of human resources in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Overall results relating to effective workforce planning and management of human resources were initially assessed as partially satisfactory. Implementation of nine important recommendations remains in progress

FINAL OVERALL RATING: PARTIALLY SATISFACTORY

31 October 2016

Assignment No. AN2015/590/01