The Executive Board urged UNDP and UNOPS to develop a more transparent chargeback structure.

Chargeback and financing mechanisms as well as delivery of service at little to no cost will be explored. Such systems will be prototyped and piloted.

While the most obvious impact on Secretariat offices will be the need to respond to access requests in compliant fashion, a range of activities require budgetary consideration, such as: OIOS (monitoring and oversight); the Department of Public Information (use of the United Nations website); the Office of Human Resources Management (change management/training; review of issuances and guidelines); the Office of Legal Affairs (advisory services, participation in the review committee); the Information Technology Services Division (information systems); the Executive Office of the Secretary-General (endorsement, advisory panels, appeals mechanism); and the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts (chargeback and financing mechanism).

The post requirements of $16,025,400 reflect an increase of $1,229,200 resulting from the net inward redeployment of six General Service (Other level) posts as follows: (a) one General Service (Other level) post from the Publishing Service (subprogramme 4) to assist with the coordination of meetings planning activities; (b) two General Service (Other level) posts from the Publishing Service (subprogramme 4) for the preparation and coordination of workload statistics on conference services in Geneva; (c) three General Service (Other level) posts from the Publishing Service (subprogramme 4) to strengthen the information technology function of the Division in the development of emerging and language-specific technology projects; (d) one General Service (Principal level) post from the Text-Processing Section (subprogramme 4) in support of the Division's monitoring of financial allotments and its preparation of financial and budgetary reports, cost estimates and chargeback calculations for reimbursable conference services and related activities; and (e) the outward redeployment of one General Service (Other level) post to the Text-Processing Section (subprogramme 4) relating to the consolidation and streamlining of the text-processing activities and the proposal to strengthen the monitoring activities referred to above.

The decrease in post requirements is the result of the return on investment in technology and the re-engineering of workflow processes in the context of the streamlining of conference services in the area of text-processing and distribution activities, which in turn facilitates the redeployment of the related posts to priority areas as follows: (a) the redeployment of seven posts to subprogramme 2, comprising: (i) one General Service (Principal level) post to strengthen the monitoring of financial allotments, the preparation of financial and budgetary reports, cost estimates and chargeback calculations for reimbursable conference services and related activities; (ii) one General Service (Other level) post to strengthen the coordination of meetings planning activities; (iii) two General Service (Other level) posts for the preparation and coordination of workload statistics on conference-servicing activities in Geneva; and (iv) three General Service (Other level) posts to strengthen the information technology function of the Division in the development of emerging and language-specific technology projects; (b) the redeployment of three posts, including one General Service (Principal level) and two General Service (Other level), to the Language Service (subprogramme 3) with a view to strengthening the documentation-processing functions through the creation and maintenance of a searchable reference archive in order to provide access to in-house and off-site translators and editors; partially offset by (c) the inward redeployment of two General Service (Other level) posts from subprogrammes 2 and 3 relating to the consolidation and streamlining of the text-processing and distribution activities and to the proposals to strengthen monitoring activities and documentation management functions referred to above.