AFR/RC63/INF.DOC/1 6 September 2013
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Sixty-third session Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 2–6 September 2013 Agenda item 20.1
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REPORT ON WHO STAFF IN THE AFRICAN REGION Information Document CONTENTS Paragraphs INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 1 APPOINTMENT CATEGORIES...................................................................................................... 2–4 CATEGORY, GRADE AND GENDER DISTRIBUTION .............................................................. 5–7 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.............................................................................................. 8–12 COMPARISON BETWEEN 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 AND 2013 STATISTICS............... 13–17 TABLES Page 1a: 1b: 1c: 2: Staff members with long-term appointments by category and grade ........................................... 5 Staff members with temporary appointments by category ........................................................... 5 Long-term and temporary staff members combined ..................................................................... 5 Distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender ...................................................... 6 (a) Professional Staff ................................................................................................................ 6 (b) National Professional Officers ............................................................................................ 6 (c) General Service Staff .......................................................................................................... 6 Distribution of long-term professional staff in the African Region by nationality, grade and gender................................................................................................... 7 Geographical distribution of long-term professional staff from countries of the African Region as of 1 June 2013 ................................................................................................ 8 Distribution of temporary professional staff in the African Region by nationality, grade and gender................................................................................................... 9 Distribution of long-term and temporary staff by duty station ................................................... 10 Comparison of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 staff members’ statistics .................... 12 (a) Long-term staff.................................................................................................................. 12 (b) Staff on temporary appointment ........................................................................................ 12 (c) Progress report on appointments from 2008 to 2013 ........................................................ 12
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INTRODUCTION 1. The purpose of this document is to provide Member States with information pertaining to WHO staff working in the African Region. The information below represents an overview of the staffing profile in WHO in the African Region as at 1 June 2013. It covers the overall staffing situation by category, grade, gender, geographical representation, nationality and duty station. The information does not include the statistics of the WHO Country Office in South Sudan which joined the African Region in May 2013. APPOINTMENT CATEGORIES 2. As at 1 June 2013, WHO had 2161 staff members on fixed-term appointment in the African Region. The fixed-term category, hereafter referred to as “long term appointments”, comprises staff members on contracts of one-to-five years or on continuing appointment. Of the 2161 staff members on long-term appointment, 342 (15.83%) were professional staff members, 571 (26.42%) were national professional officers and 1248 (57.75%) were general service staff members (Table 1a). 3. Moreover, as at 1 June 2013, WHO had 102 staff members on temporary appointment (24 months or less) in the African Region. Of these 102 temporary staff members, 60 (58.82%) were in the professional category, 16 (15.69%) were national professional officers and 26 (25.49%) were in the general service category (Table 1b). 4. Thus, as at 1 June 2013, the WHO African Region had a total of 2263 staff members on both long-term and temporary appointments. Of these 2263 staff members, 402 (18%) were in the professional category, 587 (26%) were in the national professional officer (NPO) category and 1274 (56%) were in the general service (GS) category (Table 1c). CATEGORY, GRADE AND GENDER DISTRIBUTION 5. The distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender is shown in Table 2 (2a, 2b and 2c). It can be seen that, among the 402 professional staff members, 342 (85%) were on longterm appointment and 60 (15%) were on temporary appointment. Of the 342 professional staff members on long-term appointment, 263 (77%) were males and 79 (23%) were females. Of the 60 professional staff members with temporary appointments, 44 (73%) were males and 16 (27%) were females (Table 2a). 6. Among the 587 national professional officers, 571 (97%) were on long-term appointment and 16 (3%) held temporary appointments. Of the 571 NPOs on long-term appointment, 408 (71%) were males and 163 (29%) were females. Of the 16 NPOs holding temporary appointments, 13 (81%) were males and 3 (19%) were female (Table 2b). 7. Of the 1274 general service staff members, 1248 (98%) were on fixed-term appointments and 26 (2%) held temporary appointments. Of the 1248 GS staff members on fixed-term appointment, 818 (66%) were males and 430 (34%) were females. Of the 26 GS staff members holding temporary appointments, 20 (77%) were males and 6 (23%) were females (Table 2c). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 8. Table 3a presents the situation of long-term professional staff working in the WHO African Region by nationality. As at 1 June 2013, the countries with the highest representation were the
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Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya and Uganda with 16 long-term professional staff members each, followed by Nigeria and Burkina Faso with 14 staff members each. 9. Table 3b presents the geographical distribution of long-term professional staff members from 46 out of the 47 countries of the WHO African Region given that the compilation of statistics on the WHO Country Office in South Sudan has yet to be completed. Twenty-one (21) countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) were over-represented (category C). Eleven (11) countries (Algeria, Angola, Chad, Gambia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone and South Africa) were within their range but above the mid-point (category B2). Thirteen (13) countries (Botswana, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Lesotho, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Seychelles) were within their range but below the mid-point (category B1). One (1) country, namely Swaziland, had no long-term professional staff working in the African Region (category A*). On the other hand, the following countries outside the WHO African Region had nationals working in the WHO African Region as long-term professional staff: Belgium (2), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (2), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (4), Germany (4), India (5), Italy (2), Netherlands (1), Portugal (2), Spain (1), Sudan (2), Switzerland (1), United Kingdom (1), Unites States of America (12) (Table 3a). 10. Qualified candidates from the countries under-represented or not represented are strongly encouraged to apply for vacant professional positions in the WHO African Region. 11. Table 3c presents the distribution of temporary professional staff working in the WHO African Region by nationality, grade and gender. As at 1 June 2013, the countries with the highest representation were Burkina Faso with seven temporary professional staff members followed by Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria with four temporary professional staff members each, then Ethiopia, Niger and Tanzania with three temporary professional staff members each. The following countries outside the WHO African Region had temporary professional staff members working in the African Region: Australia (1), Brazil (1), France (4), Germany (1), India (1), Italy (1), Peru (2), Portugal (1), Spain (1), Sudan (1) and United States of America (2). 12. Table 4 presents the distribution of long-term and temporary staff members working for the WHO African Region by duty station. COMPARISON BETWEEN 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 AND 2013 STATISTICS 13. Table 5 presents a comparison of the total number of staff members working in the WHO African Region by category of appointment between 1 June 2008 and 1 June 2013. The total number of long-term staff members in the African Region varied from 2206 in 2008, 2451 in 2009, 2516 in 2010 to 2391 in 2011, 2276 in 2012 and 2161 in 2013. 14. It is also worth noting that from 2008 to 2010 the number of staff members on long-term appointment increased continuously as opposed to the significant continuous decrease of the number of staff members employed on a temporary basis over the same period. This trend results from the decision by the WHO Director-General, in consultation with Member States, to implement a contract reform policy with the aim of aligning the contractual arrangements in force in WHO with the human resources needed to implement health programmes.
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15. However, the number of staff members in the African Region has decreased since 2011 due to the budget constraints, the ensuing freeze on recruitment followed by implementation of the new organizational structure and then the downsizing. 16. Table 5c presents the trends of staff members on long-term and temporary appointment across the appointment categories from 2008 to 2013. 17. The three graphs below provide a detailed trend of staffing in the WHO African Region across appointment types and categories.
Graphical illustration of staff distribution by category from 2008 to 2013
AFR/RC63/INF.DOC/1 Page 4 Graphical illustration of overall trends in staff category numbers from 2008 to 2013
2800 2700
2679 2493
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2600 2500 2400
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2300 2200illustration of staff distribution by category and contract type from 2008 to 2013 Graphical 2100
2000 433 60 454 58 446 2008 69 628 36 420 53 618 20
2009371 41 608
2010 364 13 585 13 342 60 571
2011
19
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1319
1377
1478
1412
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1248
169 2008
123 2009 GS TA GS FT
52 2010 NPO TA NPO FT
32 2011 P TA P FT
43 2012
26 2013
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Table 1a: Staff members with long-term appointments by category and grade Staff/Grade UG D.2 D.1 P.6 P.5 P.4 P.3 P.2 Total professional Total NPOs Total GS Grand Total Total 1 1 13 28 78 165 46 10 342 571 1248 2161 % 0.29% 0.29% 3.80% 8.19% 22.81% 48.25% 13.45% 2.92% 15.83% 26.42% 57.75%
Table 1b: Staff members with temporary appointments by category Category Professional staff National professional officers General service staff Total Total 60 16 26 102 % 58.82% 15.69% 25.49%
Table 1c: Long-term and temporary staff members combined Category P NPO GS Total by type of appointment Long-term 342 571 1248 2161 Temporary 60 16 26 102 Total 402 587 1274 2263 % 18% 26% 56%
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Table 2: Distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender (a) Professional Staff P2 F Long-term Temporary Total 3 2 5 M 7 2 9 F 16 1 17 P3 M 30 8 38 F 39 11 P4 M 126 24 F 12 2 14 P5 M 66 10 76 6 22 2 11 1 0 0 1 F 6 P6 M 22 F 2 D1 M 11 F 1 D2 M UG1 F M 1 Female Total 79 16 95 % 23% 27% Male Total 263 44 307 % 77% 73% Total 342 60 402 % 85% 15% 100%
50 150
(b) National Professional Officers NO-A F Long-term Temporary Total 3 10 3 M 10 F 39 1 40 NO-B M 135 7 142 F 120 2 122 NO-C M 255 6 261 1 8 F 1 NO-D M 8 Female Total % 163 3 166 29% 19% Male Total % 408 13 421 71% 81% Total 571 16 587 % 97% 3% 100%
(c) General Service Staff G1 F Long-term Temporary Total 10 1 11 22 M 22 F 7 G2 M 430 11 7 441 15 F 15 G3 M 97 1 98 F 84 2 86 G4 M 51 2 F G5 M F G6 M F G7 M 89 2 91 Female Total % 430 6 436 34% 23% Male Total % 818 20 838 66% 77% Total 1248 26 1274 % 98% 2% 100%
119 52 119 77 76 1 1 52 120 4 1 81 77
53 120
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Table 3a: Distribution of long-term professional staff in the African Region by nationality, grade and gender P2 Country of Nationality Algeria Angola Belgium Benin Bolivia Botswana Brazil Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon, Republic of Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo Cote d'Ivoire Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia France Gabon Gambia Germany Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau India Italy Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Netherlands Niger Nigeria Portugal Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Spain Sudan Switzerland Tanzania, United Republic of Togo Uganda United Kingdom United States of America Zambia Zimbabwe Total – African Region 1 3 1 7 16 4 30 1 3 2 1 39 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 4 7 1 4 3 1 126 1 12 2 1 2 66 6 1 22 2 11 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 3 1 5 1 3 1 1 7 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 7 2 4 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 4 4 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 6 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 1 9 1 2 1 1 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 4 2 8 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 F M F P3 M F P4 M F P5 M F P6 M 1 1 F D1 M D2 F UG1 M All professional staff F 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 1 3 1 2 0 1 7 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0 1 2 0 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 3 0 4 2 3 79 M 1 5 1 6 1 0 0 11 6 11 1 0 4 5 1 1 15 11 5 1 1 2 9 4 2 7 3 8 2 2 5 1 9 1 1 7 12 5 3 1 1 0 4 14 1 11 1 9 0 0 1 2 0 2 9 13 1 8 6 9 263 Total 1 7 2 7 1 1 1 14 10 12 2 1 4 5 1 1 16 11 10 1 1 3 12 4 4 7 4 11 3 4 5 2 16 1 3 8 12 5 3 3 2 1 7 14 2 13 1 13 1 1 1 2 1 5 10 16 1 12 8 12 342
AFR/RC63/INF.DOC/1 Page 8 Table 3b: Geographical distribution of long-term professional staff from countries of the African Region as of 1 June 2013 NATIONALITY Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Togo Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe Reference A: Countries not represented B1: Countries within their range but below the mid-point B2: Countries within their range but above the mid-point C: Countries over-represented
TOTAL STAFF 9 7 10 1 15 11 16 1 4 6 1 11 11 20 1 3 24 4 7 19 8 4 21 1 1 4 10 16 5 5 4 3 7 21 17 1 17 1 4 12 0 11 22 12 12 16 416
RECRUITMENT LIST B2 B2 C B1 C C C B1 B1 B2 B1 C C C B1 B1 C B1 B2 C C B1 C B1 B1 B2 C C B2 B2 B2 B1 B2 C C B1 C B1 B2 B2 A* C C C C C
STAFF HQ/ Others R.O.s 8 0 3 0 1 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 12 0 0 8 5 0 5 0 1 1 2 4 0 2 1 1 0 7 4 0 4 1 3 11 0 1 6 7 4 4 117
Staff in AFRO 1 7 7 1 14 10 12 1 4 5 1 11 10 16 1 3 12 4 7 11 3 4 16 1 0 3 8 12 5 3 3 2 7 14 13 1 13 0 1 1 0 10 16 5 8 12 299
AFR/RC63/INF.DOC/1 Page 9 Table 3c: Distribution of temporary professional staff in the African Region by nationality, grade and gender P2 Country of Nationality Algeria Australia Benin Brazil Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Congo, Democratic Rep of the Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia France Gabon Germany Ghana Guinea India Italy Kenya Madagascar Malawi Mali Niger Nigeria Peru Portugal Senegal Spain Sudan Tanzania, United Republic of Togo Uganda United States of America 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 1
P3 M F M F
P4 M 1
P5 F M 1
All professional staff F 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 2
F
M 1 1 1 0 7 0 1 0 4 1 2 4 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 2 2 4 2 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 0
Total 1 1 1 1 7 1 2 1 4 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 4 2 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 2
Grand Total
2
2
1
8
11
24
2
10
16
44
60
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Table 4: Distribution of long-term and temporary staff by duty station Long-Term Duty Station Abeche Abidjan Abuja Accra Addis Ababa Algiers Antananarivo Asmara Bamako Bangui Banjul Bauchi Benguela Bissau Brazzaville Bujumbura Bukavu Conakry Cotonou Dakar Dar-es-Salaam Entebbe Enugu Freetown Gaborone Goma Gulu Harare Ibadan Kaduna Kampala Kano Kigali Kinshasa
Temporary P 1 16 1 8 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 114 1 8 5 20 4 1 1 2 2 4 GS NPO 1 P 2 2 4
GS 1 18 150 20 67 2 14 14 12 12 11 11 3 6 221 16 4 17 14 12 20 3 8 20 4 3 47 16 6 22 12 62
NPO 11 61 9 72 10 6 13 7 6 4 4 17 5 4 11 8 8 17 5 9 3 3 1 14 2 2 19 11 34
All Staff 3 33 235 30 151 3 25 22 26 26 18 16 4 12 385 21 8
2 1 3 5
1
31 23 23 42 3 13
3 1
32 8 6 1
40
1
1
103 18 8
3 2 1 10 1
1
45 2 24
4
111
AFR/RC63/INF.DOC/1 Page 11 Kisangani Lagos Libreville Lilongwe Lome Luanda Lubumbashi Lusaka Malabo Maputo Maseru Mbabane Mbandaka Mbuji Mayi Minna Mongo Monrovia Moroni Moundou Nairobi N'Djamena Niamey Nouakchott Ouagadougou Ouidah Port Harcourt Port Louis Praia Pretoria Sao Tome Sokoto Tamale Victoria Windhoek Yaounde Zanzibar
1 17 27 14 14 50 12 6 10 9 8 1 2 17 12 31 34 20 11 41 7 6 4 14 5 3 3 8 12 2 1248 2 1 6 5 19 9 7 7 12 4 1 3 7 4 3 1 1 3 11 1 571 342 26 16 60 1 3 1 1 2 5 1 3 1 1 6 8 4 2 38 1 1 4 1 1 4 1 7 7 11 6 22 1 14 1 12 3 4 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 3 1 3 8 1 27 2 1 7 2
1 25 63 27 21 87 1 27 14 27 14 14 1 1 4 1 27 18 1 56 56 31 20 96 1 12 7 9 26 10 6 1 5 14 25 3 2263
Grand Total
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Table 5: Comparison of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 staff members' statistics
(a)
Long-term staff Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 GS 1319 1377 1478 1412 1327 1248 NPO 454 628 618 608 585 571 P 433 446 420 371 364 342 Total 2206 2451 2516 2391 2276 2161
(b)
Staff on temporary appointment Year GS NPO P Total
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
169 123 52 32 43 26
58 36 20 19 13 16
60 69 53 41 46 60
287 228 125 92 102 102
(c)
Progress report on appointments from 2008 to 2013 2008 GS NPO P Total TA FT TA FT TA FT 169 1319 58 454 60 433 2493 0% 2009 123 1377 36 628 69 446 2679 7% 2010 52 1478 20 618 53 420 2641 -1% 2011 32 1412 19 608 41 371 2483 -6% 2012 43 1327 13 585 46 364 2378 -4% 2013 26 1248 16 571 60 342 2263 -5%