MAIP & Security Spending in the UN System
Up one levelThe General Assembly at its 59th session adopted Resolution A/RES/59/276 – Strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations. While recognizing the operational difficulties linked to cost sharing by organizations, the General Assembly decided “to maintain the existing arrangements with regard to cost sharing for safety and security” rather than funding these costs under the UN’s regular budget. The resolution also requested the Secretary General, in his capacity as the Chairman of the CEB, “while fully implementing the decision of the GA to maintain the current cost sharing arrangements, to submit a report to the GA at its 61st session on measures taken to improve the operational administration of existing cost sharing arrangements.” By this same resolution, the GA also recognized “the need for a clearer presentation of security spending by each organization of the UN system”. It therefore requested the Secretary General, as Chairman of the CEB, “to inform the GA at its 60th session of this issue”.
The FB Network has been working on this subject with the objective of collecting comprehensive data on security-related spending of UN system’s organizations, as well as of highlighting any methodological issues concerning the identification and presentation of such data, in order to address “… the need for a clearer presentation of security spending by each organization of the United Nations system” identified by the General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/59/276. The results of a data collection exercise carried out by the CEB Secretariat were presented in a report of the FB Network (CEB/2005/HLCM/22) in July 2005, and later incorporated in Secretary General’s report A/60/317.
The folder contains as well the latest developments on the Identification and Implementation of Equitable and Sustainable Funding Arrangements for the United Nations Security Management System (CEB/2007/HLCM/23) and on the Inter-Agency Security Management Network.
Work in this area is led by the CEB Secretariat.
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A/60/7/Add.9 - ACABQ on Security
- Report of the ACABQ on Strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations, on coverage of staff by the MAIP and on security spending by organizations of the United Nations system (November 2005)
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A/60/317
- Report of the Secretary-General on coverage of staff by the malicious acts insurance policy and on security spending by organizations of the United Nations system (30 August 2005)