MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
FIGURE 3: OEAPs
Strategic Leadership
and Direction
Progress in the implementation of the
nine OEAPs is outlined below, highlighting key achievements in 2018.
Innovation
Strategic Leadership and Direction
UN Human Rights leadership bodies are
making timely, evidence-based strategic
decisions in line with results-based management principles.
Dynamic
Knowledge
Talent and Career
Management
9
Diversity
and Gender
• To help strengthen people-centred,
inclusive and inspirational leadership
across the Office, Dignity@Work leadership dialogues were rolled out, building
on the findings of staff surveys and the
pilot 360-degree feedback for senior
managers. These open conversations
about enhancing the working culture
at UN Human Rights were held at the
Branch, Service and Division levels. As of
the end of December, 55 dialogues had
been held with nearly 700 participants in
Geneva, New York and field presences.
External
Communications
Organizational
Effectiveness
Action Plans
Resource Mobilization
Operations Management
• Enhanced leadership communication
across UN Human Rights was further
enabled through the appointment of an
Internal Communications Officer in 2018.
Six town hall meetings and briefings for
staff were organized under a new format
designed to facilitate more horizontal
exchange. Meetings on internal communication were held with 20 units within
UN Human Rights to identify concerns
and suggestions, and feedback from
these meetings was used to develop a
new SOP on internal communication.
A number of “HARDtalks” were held as
open spaces for staff to discuss issues
and concerns with senior management.
Partnerships
150
120
90
60
Number of outputs by progress achieved
LEVEL OF PROGRESS FOR EACH OEAP
Fully achieved
Good progress
30
Some progress
No progress
0
Strategic
Leadership
Innovation
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Dynamic
Knowledge
External
Resource
Communications Mobilization
Partnerships
Operations
Management
Diversity and
Gender
Talent
Management
also contributed to the restructuring of
the United Nations peace and security
pillar through its prevention work and
supported the Secretary-General’s management reform by actively participating
in the implementation of the Umoja
Phase 2 project.
Innovation
Across UN Human Rights, innovation is
encouraged, supported and its results are
implemented accordingly.
• UN Human Rights has been exploring
ways to encourage greater innovation
for greater human rights impact. The
2017 Challenge “UN Human Rights: Light
Up” aimed to generate out-of-the-box
ideas about how to transform the way
UN Human Rights works. One of the
projects selected through the Light Up
challenge, “My Human Rights in 180 seconds”, was successfully implemented in
2018 to raise awareness among and engage young people in the presentation
of human rights topics in creative ways.
Dynamic Knowledge
UN Human Rights’ knowledge base is
used strategically to actively shape programming, capacity, culture and structure.
• In 2018, UN Human Rights developed
a Dynamic Knowledge Strategy, having convened a Dynamic Knowledge
Network of more than 30 colleagues
for this purpose. Implementation is
underway with priorities including the
development of a UN Human Rights
Dynamic Knowledge Policy, consolidating institutional learning and making it
available across the Office. Knowledge
management functions are to be embedded in individual annual workplans
and other actions will address culture,
capacity and systems-related aspects.
Dedicated resources will support this
progress, including field sensitive implementation in 2019.
• The UN Human Rights Technology
Working Group engaged with academic institutions and businesses in the
technology sector with the objective to
establish partnerships for the adaptation or development of tools for human
rights monitoring and investigations.
In November, in partnership with the
Center for Human Rights, Berkeley,
School of Law, training was provided for
UN Human Rights staff on online open
source investigations.
• UN Human Rights actively participated
in the Secretary-General’s reform of the
UN development system, including by
providing inputs to: the design of the new
structure, the new RC job description,
the new management accountability
framework and on the new UNDAFs. It
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