AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 10 July 2009
REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Fifty-ninth session Kigali, Republic of Rwanda, 31 August–4 September 2009 Provisional agenda item 9.5
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
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 2006, 2007, 2008 AND 2009 STATISTICS .................................. 13–16 TABLES Page 1a: 1b: 1c: 2a: 2b: 2c: 3a: 3b: 3c: 4: 5: Staff members with long-term appointments by category............................................................ 4 Staff members with temporary appointments by category ........................................................... 4 Long-term and temporary staff members combined..................................................................... 4 Distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender (P staff)........................................ 5 Distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender (NPO staff) .................................. 5 Distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender (GS staff)..................................... 6 Distribution of long-term professional staff (working in the African Region) by nationality, grade and gender........................................................................................................ 7 Geographical distribution of long-term professional staff from countries of the WHO African Region................................................................................................................... 8 Distribution of temporary professional staff (working in the African Region) by nationality, grade and gender................................................................................................... 9 Distribution of long-term and temporary staff by duty station................................................... 10 Comparison on 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 staff members’ statistics ....................................... 11
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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 2009; it covers the overall staffing situation by category, grade, gender, geographical representation, nationality and duty station. APPOINTMENT CATEGORIES 2. At 1 June 2009, WHO had 2451 staff members on fixed-term appointments in the African Region. The fixed-term category, hereafter referred to as “long-term appointments”, comprises staff members holding contracts of one to five years or continuing appointments. Of the 2451 staff members on long-term appointments, 446 (18.2%) were professional staff members, 628 (25.6%) were national professional officers and 1377 (56.2%) were general service staff members (Table 1a). 3. Moreover, at 1 June 2009, WHO had 228 staff members on temporary appointments (24 months or less) in the African Region. Of these 228 temporary staff members, 69 (30.3%) were professional staff members, 36 (15.8%) were national professional officers and 123 (53.9%) were general service staff members (Table 1b). 4. Thus, at 1 June 2009, WHO in the African Region had a total of 2679 staff members on both long-term and temporary appointments. Of these 2679 staff members, 515 (19.2%) were in the professional category, 664 (24.8%) in the national professional officer (NPO) category and 1500 (56%) 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 Tables 2 a, b and c. It can be seen that, among the 515 professional staff members, 446 (86.6%) were on long-term appointments and 69 (13.4%) were on temporary appointments. Of the 446 professional staff members on long-term appointments, 333 (74.7%) were men and 113 (25.3%) were women. Of the 69 professional staff members on temporary appointments, 63 (91.3%) were men and 6 (8.7%) were women (Table 2a). 6. Among the 664 national professional officers, 628 (94.6%) were on long-term appointments and 36 (5.4%) held temporary appointments. Of the 628 NPOs on long-term appointments, 475 (75.6%) were men and 153 (24.4%) were women. Of the 36 NPOs holding temporary appointments, 22 (61.1%) were men and 14 (38.9%) were women (Table 2b). 7. Of the 1500 general service staff members, 1377 (91.8%) were on fixed-term appointments and 123 (8.2%) held temporary appointments. Of the 1377 GS staff members on fixed-term appointments, 972 (70.6%) were men and 405 (29.4%) were women. Of the 123 GS staff members holding temporary appointments, 79 (64.2%) were men and 44 (35.8%) were women (Table 2c).
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GEOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION 8. Table 3a presents the long-term professional staff working in the WHO African Region by nationality. At 1 June 2009, the country with the highest representation was Democratic Republic of Congo with 24 long-term professional staff members, followed by Cameroon with 20 staff members. 9. Table 3b presents the geographical distribution of long-term professional staff members from the 46 countries of the WHO African Region. Twenty-six (26) countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) were over-represented (C category). Eleven (11) countries (Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and South Africa) were within their range but above the midpoint (B2 category). Six (6) countries (Cape Verde, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Namibia, and Sao Tome and Principe) were within their range but below the mid-point (B1 category). Three (3) countries, namely Lesotho, Seychelles and Swaziland, had no long-term professional representation (A* category). On the other hand, the following countries outside the WHO African Region had representation in the African Region: Belgium (6), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (4), Denmark (1), Germany (2), France (6), India (7), Ireland (1), Italy (5), Morocco (1), Netherlands (3), Portugal (2), Spain (1), Sudan (2), Switzerland (2), United Kingdom (1) and United States of America (9) (Table 3a). 10. It is worth noting that 26 countries of the African Region were over-represented and that nine countries were either under-represented (six) or not represented (three) in the long-term professional category. In this regard, qualified candidates from those nine countries are strongly encouraged to apply for vacant professional posts in the WHO African Region. 11. Table 3c presents the temporary professional staff working in the WHO African Region by nationality, grade and gender. At 1 June 2009, the countries with the most representation were Benin and Burkina Faso with five (5) temporary professional staff members each, followed by Kenya with four (4) temporary professional staff members. The following countries outside the WHO African Region had temporary professional staff members working in the African Region: Bangladesh (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Canada (2), Egypt (1), El Salvador (1), France (3), India (2), Italy (1), Portugal (2) and Yemen (1). 12. Table 4 presents the distribution of long-term and temporary staff members working for WHO in the African Region by duty station. COMPARISON BETWEEN 2006, 2007, 2008 AND 2009 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 2006 and 1 June 2009. The total number of staff members in the African Region varied from 2701 in 2006, 2514 in 2007, 2493 in 2008 to 2679 in 2009. 14. It is also worth noting that the number of staff members on long-term appointments increased constantly as against the significant constant decrease of the number of staff members employed on a temporary basis. Such a move is the result of the decision taken by the Director-General, in
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consultation with Member States, to implement a contract reform policy with the aim of aligning the contractual arrangements in force in the Organization with the human resources needed to deliver health programmes. 15. Table 5c presents the variation in the number of staff members on long-term and temporary appointments across the appointment categories from 2006 to 2009. 16. The graphic representations below provide detailed trends in staffing in the WHO African Region across appointment types and categories.
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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 2 10 23 117 199 59 35 446 628 1377 2451
Table 1b: Staff members with temporary appointments by category Category Professional staff National professional officers General service staff Total Total 69 36 123 228
Table 1c: Long-term and temporary staff members combined Category Professional National professional General service Total by type of appointment Long-term 446 628 1377 2451 Temporary 69 36 123 228 Grand Total 515 664 1500 2679
AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 5 Table 2: Distribution of staff members by category, grade and gender (a) Professional staff P1 Category M Long-Term Short-Term Total Percentage by grade Percentage of total 0 0 100% 0 F T 0 0 M 21 2 23 62 F 14 0 14 38 T 35 2 37 100% 7.18 M 38 10 48 67 F 21 3 24 33 T 59 13 72 100% 14 M 152 49 201 80 F 47 3 50 20 T 199 52 251 100% 48.7 M 94 2 96 81 F 23 0 23 19 T 117 2 119 100% 23.11 M 19 0 19 82.6 F 4 0 4 17.4 T 23 0 23 100% 4.466 M 7 0 7 70 F 3 0 3 30 T 10 0 10 100% 1.94 M 1 0 1 50 F 1 0 1 50 T 2 0 2 100% 0.39 M 1 0 1 100 F 0 0 0 0 T 1 0 1 100% 0.19 M 333 63 396 F 113 6 119 T 446 69 515 M 74.7 91.3 76.9 F 25.3 8.7 23.1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 D1 D2 Ungraded Total Percentage
(b) National professional officers
A Category M Long-Term Short-Term Total Percentage by grade Percentage of total 15 3 18 81.8 F 4 0 4 18 T 19 3 22 100% 3.31 M 161 3 164 79 F
B T 38 5 43 21 199 8 207 100% 31.17 M 298 16 314 73 F
C T 110 9 119 27 408 25 433 100% 65.21 M 1 0 1 50 F
D T 1 0 1 50 2 0 2 100% 0.30 M 475 22 497 75
Total F 153 14 167 25 T 628 36 664 100% 100.00
Percentage M 75.6 61.1 74.8 F 24.4 38.9 25.2
AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 6 (c) General service staff G1 Category M Long-Term Short-Term Total Percentage by grade Percentage of total 69 8 77 79.4 F 20 0 20 21 T 89 8 97 100% 6.47 M 520 38 558 98 F 9 1 10 2 T 529 39 568 100% 37.87 M 88 5 93 81 F 21 1 22 19 T 109 6 115 100% 7.67 M 1 0 1 1.2 F 61 22 83 99 T 62 22 84 100% 5.60 M 101 12 113 47 F 120 8 128 53 T 221 20 241 100% 16.07 M 104 8 112 50.2 F 105 6 111 49.8 T 209 14 223 100% 14.87 M 89 8 97 56.4 F 69 6 75 43.6 T 158 14 172 100% 11.47 M 972 79 1051 70.1 F 405 44 449 29.9 T 1377 123 1500 100% 100 M 70.6 64.2 70.1 F 29.4 35.8 29.9 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 Total Percentage
AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 7 Table 3a: Distribution of long-term professional staff (working in the African Region) by nationality, grade and gender Country of Nationality Algeria Angola Belgium Bolivia Brazil Benin Burkina Faso Botswana Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Canada Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Denmark Germany Democratic Republic of Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia France Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ireland India Italy Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Mali Malawi Mauritius Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Netherlands Namibia Nigeria Niger Portugal Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Spain Sudan Switzerland United Rep. of Tanzania Togo Uganda United Kingdom United States of America Zambia Zimbabwe Total - African Region P.02 M F 1 P.03 M F 1 P.04 M F 1 2 1 1 1 6 1 4 1 1 1 3 6 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 15 2 4 7 2 2 5 5 3 1 2 1 5 1 2 8 2 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 6 6 1 2 21 5 2 152 2 1 1 3 1 1 47 2 3 4 3 3 1 94 2 1 1 9 2 4 1 6 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 4 3 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 4 1 3 1 2 2 1 1 4 4 1 1 M 2 4 P.05 F P.06 M F 1 2 1 D.01 M F D.02 M F UG M 1 F All professional staff M F Total 4 0 4 6 1 7 4 2 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 9 3 12 9 3 12 2 2 4 8 5 13 16 4 20 1 1 2 3 1 4 5 0 5 3 1 4 1 0 1 14 0 14 11 6 17 1 0 1 1 1 2 22 2 24 3 0 3 4 0 4 9 7 16 4 2 6 4 3 7 8 0 8 10 3 13 8 1 9 2 1 3 0 1 1 7 0 7 3 2 5 11 5 16 1 0 1 1 2 3 5 5 10 13 1 14 6 1 7 2 1 3 5 1 6 1 0 1 3 2 5 2 1 3 1 2 3 17 2 19 6 3 9 1 1 2 9 1 10 2 0 2 7 7 14 2 2 4 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 2 7 2 9 12 1 13 12 2 14 0 1 1 4 5 9 9 2 11 8 6 14 333 113 446
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AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 8 Table 3b: Geographical distribution of long-term professional staff from countries of the WHO African Region as of 1 June 2009 NATIONALITY Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Dem. Rep. 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 & Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Togo Uganda Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe TOTAL TOTAL STAFF 9 8 14 5 18 12 20 2 5 5 1 13 16 26 2 3 18 4 11 17 11 4 20 0 4 10 9 20 8 8 6 2 12 24 16 2 20 0 5 9 0 14 18 11 15 18 475 RANGE 002-010 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-007 001-008 001-008 001-007 001-008 001-008 002-012 001-007 001-008 002-012 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-010 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 001-008 004-014 001-008 001-007 001-008 001-007 001-008 004-011 001-007 001-008 001-008 001-010 001-008 001-008 0 RECRUITMENT LIST B2 B2 C B2 C C C B1 B2 B2 B1 C C C B1 B1 C B2 C C C B2 C A* B2 C C C C C B2 B1 C C C B1 C A* B2 B2 A* C C C C C 0 STAFF HQ/other R.Os. 4 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 5 0 1 4 1 0 3 0 0 1 1 3 1 4 0 0 0 6 2 0 7 0 2 6 0 0 2 1 4 3 71 Staff in AFRO 5 7 13 4 17 12 18 2 5 5 1 13 15 23 2 3 13 4 10 13 10 4 17 0 4 9 8 17 7 4 6 2 12 18 14 2 13 0 3 3 0 14 16 10 11 15 404
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
AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 9 Table 3c: Distribution of temporary professional staff (working in the African Region) by nationality, grade and gender P.02 M Angola Bangladesh Belgium Benin Burkina Faso Brazil Burundi Cameroon Canada Republic of Congo Côte d'Ivoire Egypt Democratic Republic of Congo El Salvador Ethiopia France India Gambia Ghana Italy Kenya Mali Malawi Nigeria Niger Portugal Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe South Africa Togo Uganda Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Total 2 0 10 3 2 1 1 1 2 49 3 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 3 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 5 3 1 F M P.03 F M 1 1 P.04 F P.05 M F TOTAL M 1 1 0 5 5 0 1 3 1 3 2 1 3 1 3 3 1 2 3 0 4 1 1 2 1 0 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 3 63 F 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 TOTAL 1 1 1 5 5 1 1 3 1 3 2 1 3 1 3 3 2 2 3 1 4 1 1 2 1 2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 3 69
Country of Nationality
AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 10 Table 4: Distribution of long-term and temporary staff members by duty station Country Algeria Angola Belgium Benin Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Congo Côte-d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Togo Uganda United Republic Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe WCO & ICST Total Total fixed term and short term Duty station WLO, Algiers WCO, Luanda WEU, Brussels IRSP, Ouidah WCO, Cotonou WCO, Gaborone ICST, Ouagadougou WCO, Ouagadougou WCO, Bujumbura WCO, Yaounde WCO, Praia WCO, Bangui WCO, N'Djamena WCO, Moroni Regional Office, Brazzaville WCO, Brazzaville WCO, Abidjan WCO, Kinshasa WCO, Malabo WCO, Asmara WCO, Addis Ababa ICST, Libreville WCO, Libreville WCO, Banjul WCO, Accra WCO, Conakry WCO, Bissau WCO, Nairobi WCO, Maseru WCO, Monrovia WCO, Antananarivo WCO, Lilongwe WCO, Bamako WCO, Nouakchott WCO, Port-Louis WCO, Maputo WCO, Windhoek WCO, Niamey WCO, Abuja WCO, Kigali WCO, Sao Tome WCO, Dakar WLO, Victoria WCO, Freetown WLO, Pretoria WCO, Mbabane WCO, Lome WCO, Kampala WCO, Dar-es-Salam WCO, Lusaka WCO, ICST, Harare Fixed-term P NPO 0 0 9 27 0 0 0 0 3 6 4 5 38 2 4 9 5 9 3 10 3 3 3 8 7 11 3 3 153 2 4 9 1 4 6 30 4 1 1 3 1 7 4 4 4 4 3 3 0 6 3 6 18 3 1 2 1 3 3 4 2 4 5 2 53 446 4 8 11 62 6 11 76 2 3 7 11 8 7 18 4 7 11 11 12 8 2 10 3 9 93 12 4 11 1 9 7 4 7 29 19 16 12 628 2451 Short-term P NPO 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 8 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 2 0 0 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 26 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 69 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 3 36 228 Total GS 0 5 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 1 11 11 0 19 0 2 0 0 7 4 4 1 0 3 4 2 7 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 7 15 123 7 94 0 0 30 20 76 33 34 38 13 39 63 20 428 31 40 165 16 36 152 55 14 24 36 25 19 66 18 34 38 29 32 24 9 33 17 48 336 31 10 27 6 34 31 20 23 70 55 44 137 2679
GS 7 49 0 0 20 9 21 20 18 24 6 12 31 14 247 21 20 93 9 12 61 15 5 16 20 9 8 31 10 16 23 14 17 13 6 16 10 32 199 14 4 13 4 22 16 12 12 36 28 17 45 1377
AFR/RC59/INF.DOC/5 Page 11 Table 5 (a) Comparison on 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 staff members’ statistics Fixed term staff members Year 2009 2008 2007 2006 GS 1377 1319 726 469 NPO 628 454 201 194 P 446 433 302 289 Total 2451 2206 1229 952
(b) Temporary appointment staff members Year 2009 2008 2007 2006 GS 123 169 899 1320 NPO 36 58 172 191 P 69 60 214 238 Total 228 287 1285 1749
(c) Progress report of appointments from 2006 to 2009 2006 ST GS FT ST NPO FT ST P Total FT 1320 469 191 194 238 289 2701 2007 899 726 172 201 214 302 2514 2008 169 1319 58 454 60 433 2493 2009 123 1377 36 628 69 446 2679