[south asia] Digest Number 1092
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> There are 5 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Deadline: 15 Jan 2006: UNHCR International Professional Roster ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 UNHCR International Professional Roster 1. UNHCR has established an International 2. UNHCR is once again inviting spontaneous 3. This invitation targets potential applicants who Interested candidates may submit their applications by Candidates who were not successful in the last IPR Profile requirements for applicants to the Roster International United Nations Volunteers (IUNVs) with a Professional staff members appointed within the UN Partnership deployments with at least two years of Former UNHCR staff members. 5. Applicants to the Roster must be prepared to serve 6. The anticipated staffing requirements for 2006, Administration Officers Kindly refer to the Standard job profiles for the 7. Candidates for the Roster must possess a 8. Candidates must have a minimum number of years of P2: University degree plus 4 years of relevant 9. Candidates for finance posts must have passed the 10. In order to broaden the opportunities for 11. Every effort to maintain gender parity will be 12. Applicants to the Roster, if selected for a post, Applying for the Roster 13. Interested candidates who meet the requirements 14. In addition to the Application Form, a UN Timetable for administering the Roster 15. The Division of Human Resources Management in 16. Retained applicants to the Roster will be invited 17. Those applicants who successfully pass the test 18. We thank all those applying in advance for their For more information visit ------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- PUBLICATIONS -- Coordinator South Asian Public Health Forum ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear Subscribers, There are over 6 million people infected with HIV/AIDS in South Asia. Country Best regards, External Affairs Team ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear Rana Jawad Asghar, Here is the list of our latest postings in the categories you requested. =================================== * Integrating Cleaner Production into Industrial Development (Sri Lanka) [PDF] * Upgrading the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan, Restructuring ****** ****************************************************** -- Coordinator South Asian Public Health Forum ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 5 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- World Bank Credit Supports Governance Reforms in Bangladesh News Release No. 2006//SAR WASHINGTON, December 1, 2005 The World Bank today approved a US$200 million "The governance reforms supported by the Development Support Credit are Bangladesh has achieved significant economic and social progress in recent Despite sustained progress, the country's development challenges are daunting. "Improving governance is a critical challenge for Bangladesh and is very much The Development Support Credit builds on Bangladesh's recently completed Strengthening governance Two previous Development Support Credits from the World Bank have supported The credit from the International Development Association (IDA), the World For more information about World Bank activities in Bangladesh, visit For project information, visit -- Coordinator South Asian Public Health Forum ________________________________________________________________________ Check our new website at Also please dont forget to tell your friends and colleagues about South Asian Public Health Forum. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
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2. Water Champion Joe Madiath
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
3. Country Data on HIV/AIDS available on World Bank South Asia Website
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
4. What's New at ADB.org, 28 Nov 2005 : 3 new items
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
5. World Bank Credit Supports Governance Reforms in Bangladesh
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:26:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Saeed Ullah Khan <saeeduk@yahoo.com>
Subject: Deadline: 15 Jan 2006: UNHCR International Professional Roster
Professional Roster as a means for the Office to
ensure that entry level international positions (P-2,
P-3 and, on an exceptional basis, P-4) are filled in a
timely manner with a professionally qualified, gender
balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able
and highly motivated corps of professionals.
applications for its International Professional
Roster. When professional vacancies occur, UNHCR does
its best to fill them internally. If the number of
internal candidates is insufficient, roster candidates
will be considered. The International Professional
Roster is intended to ensure that recognized gaps in
the organization's staffing profile, especially at the
P-2 and P-3 levels, are filled properly and in a
timely manner. The purpose of the International
Professional Roster is to have a pool of pre-selected
candidates from which UNHCR can recruit when
international professional vacancies are available for
external recruitment.
could be suitable for mainly P-2 and P-3 posts in
ongoing and new operations that will be advertised in
the course of 2006. The deadline for receipt of
applications is 15 January 2006.
e-mail with the subject heading "Application to IPR"
to e-mail Recruitment and Postings Section.
test may wish to re-apply and sit for the next exam
which will be announced at a later stage.
4. All interested candidates, especially women, with
the required qualifications and experience are invited
to apply. The following categories with direct UNHCR
work experience are notably encouraged to apply:
minimum of two years of cumulative service with UNHCR;
Common System, (especially females at the P-4 level
and above until gender parity is achieved);
cumulative service with UNHCR; and
on posts in field locations, especially in category D
and E (hardship and/or non-family) duty stations, for
an initial period of one year. Preferably, the first
appointment should be outside the continent of the
candidate's nationality. All UNHCR international
professional staff members are required to rotate.
show an identifiable need for Roster candidates for
P-2 and P-3 posts with the following functional
profiles:
Community Services Officers
External Relations Officers
Field Security Advisors
Finance Officers
Finance Project Control Officers
Human Resources Officers
Information Technology Officers
Programme Officers
Protection Officers
Public Information Officers
Supply and Transport Officers (logistics, procurement,
inventory management)
Telecommunications Officers
abovementioned posts.
university degree (i.e. BA, LLB etc.) or an advanced
university degree (i.e. JD, LLM, MA, MBA, MSc, PhD)
preferably in International Relations, International
Public or Private Law, Finance, Accounting, Public
Administration, Social Work, Communications,
Journalism, Political Science or Social Sciences,
Economics, Engineering, Management, Supply Chain,
Transport and Logistics.
relevant professional work experience related either
to their own qualification or to refugees. It is
particularly helpful if this work experience has been
obtained in an international context. Internships may
be taken into account when assessing relevant
professional work experience. All candidates will be
graded based on the following standard recruitment
criteria:
professional work experience; or Advanced University
degree plus 2 years of relevant professional work
experience.
P3: University degree plus 8 years of relevant
professional work experience; or Advanced University
degree plus 6 years of relevant professional work
experience.
P4: University degree plus 12 years of relevant
professional work experience; or Advanced University
degree plus 10 years of relevant professional work
experience.
United Nations Finance Examination. Qualified
applicants in one or more functional areas (i.e.,
protection, community services, programme and supply)
could also be considered for generic Field Officer
posts.
candidates to rotate in different regions and to
respond to actual professional recruitment needs,
interested applicants are required to have a
demonstrated working knowledge of English and are
encouraged to have knowledge of a second UN language.
Applicants who do not have the second UN language must
demonstrate a commitment to learning one through
enrolment in a language learning programme in order to
be considered for the Roster.
made. Therefore, women are encouraged to apply.
must be prepared to take up their assignments as from
July 2006. However, United Nations Volunteers and
others with current assignments with UNHCR are
expected to first complete those assignments.
specified above must submit the attached Application
Form and relevant documentation to the Recruitment and
Postings Section, e-mail Recruitment and Postings
Section, by 15 January 2006.
Personal History Form (P.11, and P11 Supplement if
required) must be signed and submitted, including at
least three references.
UNHCR is responsible for administration of the Roster.
A review of the files of all applicants will take
place in January and February 2006. Applicants who are
retained at this first stage of the process will be
informed accordingly. Due to the large number of
applications, we are unfortunately not able to respond
to applicants not retained.
to take an Entry Test approximately 3-4 weeks from
receiving confirmation of their retention, and will be
provided with information regarding the timing and
administration of the test. This essay-based test will
gauge the suitability for work with UNHCR.
will be informed accordingly. They may thereafter
expect to be invited, at regular intervals, to express
interest in specific vacancies or short-term
assignments. Candidates who do not respond positively
to three invitations will be removed from the roster.
So too will those who express interest in posts and
are subsequently appointed but refuse to take up the
offer. The next main posting session will take place
in June 2006, and UNHCR will contact only those
appointed. Roster candidates who are not appointed to
posts as a result of expressed interest will remain on
the Roster for one year. After one year, they will be
requested to reconfirm their interest to remain on the
Roster and to update personal details including
additional work experience and qualifications.
interest in working for UNHCR and to serve the cause
of the world's refugees.
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:45:46 -0500
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
Subject: Water Champion Joe Madiath
From: What's New at ADB.org <whatsnew@adb.org>
Date: Nov 29, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: What's New at ADB.org, 29 Nov 2005 : 1 new item
To: "jawad@alumni.washington.edu" <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
* Water Champion Joe Madiath: Championing 100% Sanitation Coverage in
Rural Communities in India (India)
http://mms.adb.org/e-Notification/url.asp?ID=1789&DOCID=6500
Rana Jawad Asghar MD. MPH.
jawad@alumni.washington.edu http://www.DrJawad.com
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:43:49 -0500
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
Subject: Country Data on HIV/AIDS available on World Bank South Asia Website
From: enora@worldbank.org <enora@worldbank.org>
Date: Nov 28, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: Country Data on HIV/AIDS available on World Bank South Asia Website
To: jawad@alumni.washington.edu
by country data on the epidemic and information on national programs and World
Bank support is available on the World Bank's South Asia Website at
http://www.worldbank.org/sar
South Asia Region
The World Bank
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:44:42 -0500
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
Subject: What's New at ADB.org, 28 Nov 2005 : 3 new items
From: What's New at ADB.org <whatsnew@adb.org>
Date: Nov 28, 2005 9:29 PM
Subject: What's New at ADB.org, 28 Nov 2005 : 3 new items
To: "jawad@alumni.washington.edu" <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
COMPLETION REPORTS
* Development of a Transfer Scheme for Madhya Pradesh Power Sector
Reform (India) [PDF]
http://mms.adb.org/e-Notification/url.asp?ID=1789&DOCID=6495
http://mms.adb.org/e-Notification/url.asp?ID=1789&DOCID=6497
the Government Employees Provident Fund and Introducing a Pension
Scheme (Bhutan) [PDF]
http://mms.adb.org/e-Notification/url.asp?ID=1789&DOCID=6498
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:57:09 -0500
From: Jawad Asghar <jawad@alumni.washington.edu>
Subject: World Bank Credit Supports Governance Reforms in Bangladesh
From: enora@worldbank.org <enora@worldbank.org>
Date: Dec 1, 2005 5:47 PM
Subject: World Bank Credit Supports Governance Reforms in Bangladesh
To: jawad@alumni.washington.edu
Contacts:
In Washington
Erik Nora
(202) 458-4735
enora@worldbank.org
In DhakaRehnuma Amin
(8802) 815-9015, Ext 4136
ramin1@worldbank.org
Development Support Credit (DSC) to support a program of core and sectoral
governance reforms carried out by the Government of Bangladesh.. The third in
an ongoing series, the DSC is designed to assist Government in addressing key
governance constraints, by strengthening public expenditure and budgetary
management, to improve public procurement, modernize tax administration and
enhance the delivery of public services. The DSC also targets sectoral
governance reforms in banking and state-owned enterprises, energy sector
reform, and the Government's trade liberalization agenda.
designed to improve social service delivery to the poor and improve the
investment climate to enhance economic growth, exports, and jobs. Creating
economic opportunity through sustainable growth and access to services is key
to reducing poverty in Bangladesh, and the DSC supports both" said Christine
Wallich, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh.
years. GDP growth per capita has averaged around 3.3 percent since the 1990's,
outperforming low income and IDA-only countries as a whole. GDP growth in 2005
remained above 5 percent, despite devastating floods in many parts of the
country. In the social sphere, Bangladesh outperforms most low income
countries across a range of social indicators: Gender parity in school
enrollment at secondary and primary level has been achieved, child mortality
has been halved, and life expectancy has increased significantly since the
1990's. Bangladesh is also on track to meeting many of the Millennium
Development Goals.
Child malnutrition and maternal mortality rates in South Asia are among the
highest in the world, and Bangladesh's relatively good performance compared to
India and Pakistan is little solace. While poverty has declined by 1
percentage point annually since the 1990's, almost half the population still
lives below the poverty line, and corruption is widespread.
at the heart of the DSC," said Praful Patel, Vice President South Asia Region
of the World Bank. "We hope the reforms will reduce the scope for corruption,
and, in turn, build more effective government institutions and improve public
service delivery, giving long-term benefits for all Bangladeshis."
Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP), which emphasizes economic growth; job
creation, social service delivery and safety nets for the poor. Combating
corruption, restoring law and order and making governance work for the poor are
also accorded priority. Accordingly, the Development Support Credit is
designed around the three pillars of:
Improving the investment climate and infrastructure to speed economic growth
Empowering the poor
earlier phases of the Government's program of governance and other reforms: a
$300 million DSC I was approved in June 2003, followed by a $200 million DSC II
in July 2004.
Bank's concessionary arm, has 40 years to maturity with a 10-year grace period;
it carries a service charge of 0.75 percent.
www.worldbank.org/bd
http://www.worldbank.org.bd/external/default/main?pagePK=64027221&piPK=64027220&
theSitePK=295760&menuPK=295793&Projectid=P090832
Rana Jawad Asghar MD. MPH.
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