United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-07-27 monographic deposited born digital 114 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-839 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839 P0b002ee18038a77f f:d01839 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839 GAO-01-839 Employment International organizations Personnel recruiting Personnel management Other Written Product A01481

The United Nations (U.N.) and its affiliated entities face the dual challenge of attracting and retaining staff who meet the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity while maintaining the international character of the organizations by ensuring equitable geographic balance in the workforce. Nevertheless, U.N. organizations have made slow progress in addressing U.S. concerns about underrepresentation, and except for the U.N. secretariat in New York, the organizations with representation targets that GAO studied have not achieved equitable employment of Americans since 1992. Although the U.N. organizations are ultimately responsible for achieving fair geographic balance among its member countries, the State Department, in coordination with other U.S. agencies, plays a role in ensuring that the United States is equitably represented. U.N. organizations have not fully developed long-range workforce planning strategies, and neither State nor the U.N. agencies have formal recruiting and hiring action plans to improve U.S. representation in the U.N. system. Without these measures, the United States' ability to even maintain the number of Americans employed in the United Nations could be hampered. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839.pdf GAO-01-839 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-839 Other Written Product GAO-01-839; United Nations: Targeted Strategies Could Help Boost U.S. Representation; Employment International organizations Personnel recruiting Personnel management Title 22 Section 276c 22 U.S.C. 276c