UN Dual Career and Staff Mobility

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UN Dual Career and Staff Mobility

• Ethiopia
• 2008

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The Issues

• Mobility and transition
• Spouse employment
• Dual careers reason for turning down assignments

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The Response

• Joint Guidance Note on Expatriate Spouse
  Employment launched July 2004
• Inter-agency steering committee
• UN Staff Mobility Website
• UN Global Expatriate Spouse Association (GESA)
• UN Local Expatriate Spouse Association (LESA)

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Inter-agency Steering Committee

• UNICEF
• UNOPS
• UNRWA
• UNWTO
• UN Secretariat
• WFP
• WHO
• World Bank

• ILO
• UNAIDS
• UNDP
• UNEP
• UNESCO
• UNFPA
• UNHCR
• UNEP awaiting confirmation

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Global Website

• Direct access for spouses and partners
• Can research employment and country information
  even before moving
• Spouses keep up-to-date on local developments

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Content on Website

• 70 countries on website
• Career and employment information
• Country profiles and practical information
• Jobs, hiring manager access to CVs, bulletin
  boards

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Role of the UN/GESA

• Helps set up and coordinate work of LESAs
• Maintains and upgrades global website
• Implements communications strategy
• Focal point between LESAs and UN agencies

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Role of the UN/LESA

• Supports the employment and career interests of
  spouses locally
• Helps families settle into their new duty station
• Produces and updates country-specific material
  for publication on the website

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Number of LESAs

• 40 countries have or are establishing LESAs
• LESAs forming at agency head quarters (New York,
  Paris, Bonn, Geneva)
• First UN HQ LESA established in Rome

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To Establish a LESA

• Read the Guidance Note on Expatriate Spouse
  Employment
• Review How to Launch a LESA on website and
  contact GESA for assistance
• Organize a meeting of spouses/partners
• Form working groups