Outcome SSD_O_4

Improved management of financial and human resources in pursuit of results

The CO managed to achieve its target in 2022 and followed cost reduction and cost-cutting approach by regularly monitoring project budget and management budgets. Emphasis was put forward to utilise every single dollar contributed by the donors. This approach has resulted to minimise the balance against 4 operationally closed projects in 2022 where the balance amount was less than $1000 for 3 projects and $10,000 for 1 project. The $10,000 balance was left due to technical issues of Atlas as the Atlas report indicated that the balance was less than $1000 dollar. However while communicating with RO, the CO was informed of the higher balance and technical issues which is yet to review why this was occurred. Responsible staff were held accountable and regularly reminded to manage the project budget especially the Non-CORE and spend them as it is agreed in the AWP. This has helped the CO in totality to manage 2022 budget and expenditure better than the previous years

Improved management of financial and human resources in pursuit of results

The country office (CO) has adopted cost-reductions strategies on the management of financial resources and sometimes cost-cutting methods to manage its financial resources. Cost-reduction preview was done in the area of Security related costs and operations cost. Further, training related with programmatic goals were scrutinised to minimise the costs of these trainings. It is estimated that the CO saved about 2-5% of its financial resources combined from several activities by applying cost-reduction strategy. Moreover, the CO has applied policy to verify the programmatic activity request by program units that includes verifying the activity in the RMS, AWP, Atlas and DAMS. All requests require the clearance of Operations unit before approved by the CO Head. This ensured that the donor funded activities are in-line with CO approved plan. This helped objective reporting to donors and helps mobilise additional funds. The CO human resources portfolio was also reviewed in 2021 and corrective actions were taken to better align the human capital to the office needs. Some existing positions were abolished, and new ones were created for its on-going programmatic needs. The staff contract modalities were also reviewed, and changes were made. This task needs further review in 2022 as some of the SSA positions seems to be changed to other regular type of the contract. These SSA positions will be abolished and new positions such as Service contract, UNV, and FTA should be created to better position the human resources. Staff behaviour management was also reviewed, and guidance was provided as per UN Women corporate guidelines that includes the zero-tolerance policy towards some of the area. Staff capacity building was further stressed, and several trainings were organised including tapping the webinars organised by HQ. The CO regularly organise programme and operations meeting in a weekly basis where success and bottlenecks are discussed, and a plan of actions are discussed to manage them.