United Nations: Organizational resilience management

Integrated safety management based on organizational resilience

The paper addresses how measures of resilience (engineering) can be added to the existing portfolio of principles and practices of safety management. Resilience (engineering) is not just advances in applied methodology, but another approach based on different assumptions and a radically different system model. Hence, the integration of resilience into the safety management portfolio will also h...

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations

Termites are the most important soil fauna in the Sahelian zone of Africa, intensely interacting with the soil. Both the biotic and abiotic state of the soil affect the termite population and activity. The construction by termites of nests, gallery systems or sheetings from soil or from a mixture of soil and other material within the soil horizons or on the soil surface affect the physical and ...

United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Human Settlements Programme

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Results-based budgeting and performance management in the United Nations

In 1997, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan launched a comprehensive reform initiative aimed at transforming the Organization into a more effective, modernized and relevant instrument in the service of the international community. In the management area, he proposed shifting from programme budgeting to results-based budgeting (RBB). This was a significant shift in budgeting...