Examples of using Consultancy contracts in English and their translations into Arabic
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This issue was raised by the Board in 1990-1991 when it questioned whether consultancy contracts, valued at more than $100,000 should be referred to the Contracts Committee.
The executive heads of the United Nations system organizations should ensure that consultancy contracts in their respective organizations are complemented by comprehensive general conditions, including conflict of interest and code of conduct provisions.
Although it is normal not to provide full social benefits for real consultancy contracts, it would be prudent to provide limited medical, accident and death insurance coverage to consultants, in case of work-related injury, illness or death.
The executive heads of the United Nations system organizations should ensure that consultancy contracts in their respective organizations are complemented by comprehensive general conditions, including conflict of interest and code of conduct provisions.
Last financial year alone Cambridge Enterprise supported 1,714 researchers, filed 276 patents, generated 349 consultancy contracts, invested £5.2 million in spin-off companies and won £13 million in seed funding for university clients.
UNICEF informed the Board that in increasing the Office ' s coverage of field offices it had obtained good value from consultancy contracts, from both individual contractors and a firm selected competitively to provide support to internal auditors on particular assignments.
He indicated that steps had been taken to limit retroactive approval of consultancy contracts to those resulting from emergency situations where procedural requirements delay the actual approval
The mediation experts were issued nominal United Nations consultancy contracts for $1 a year to ensure their" experts on mission" status while working for the Organization, falling into the category of type II gratis personnel, as stipulated by ST/AI/1999/6.
Since many organizations did not provide a full set of specific statistical data and figures, it was difficult to consolidate comprehensive statistics on the use of consultancy contracts across the United Nations system.
This situation can be considered as indicative of consultants hired to work as de facto junior-level staff, as consultancy contracts require special expertise and work experience which would exceed that of an intern.
The United Nations Secretariat policy distinguishes" consultants" from" individual contractors;" FAO differentiates consultancy contracts from" personal service agreements", and WHO makes a distinction between consultancy contracts and" agreements for the performance of work.".
Consultancy contracts do include a conflict-of-interest clause, but there is no monitoring of this risk, while such conflicts may indeed arise, since a number of international law
Furthermore, it was recommended that appropriate steps be taken to strengthen controls over consultancy contracts, and the requirements under financial rule 114.1 on the personal accountability to be applied to United Nations officials whose actions resulted in the waste of resources for overlapping contracts. .
In the audit of short-term and consultancy contracts, the following findings were disclosed: an irregular hiring of a United Nations retiree; overlapping of contracts; excessive consultants fees paid; a consultant hired but not selected from the roster of qualified candidates; and consultancy contracts signed prior to approval by the personnel office.
Evaluation reports on the performance of consultants are used as reference for consideration of future consultancy contracts; hence,
At the Regional Office for Europe, there were six consultancy contracts in which time frames to accomplish each task, including output and delivery dates, were not clearly defined, contrary to administrative instruction(ST/AI/1999/7), which states that the terms of reference shall include tangible and measurable outputs of the work assignment, realistic delivery dates and details as to
The executive heads of the United Nations system organizations, taking into account relevant international labour principles and good practices, should review the consultancy contracts in their respective organizations with a view to introducing contracts with a shorter duration in line with the ad hoc and temporary nature of the consultancy work, and developing a proper social benefits policy which considers the duration and the nature of the work performed.
The executive heads of the United Nations system organizations, taking into account relevant international labour principles and good practices, should review the consultancy contracts in their respective organizations with a view to introducing contracts with a shorter duration in line with the ad hoc and temporary nature of the consultancy work, and developing a proper social benefits policy which considers the duration and the nature of the work performed.
No other cases of retroactively approved consultancy contracts have occurred since July 1993.
(i) Project planning, management and administrative support, including management of consultancy contracts.