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10UNROME5 2010-01-19 18:15 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY UN Rome
VZCZCXRO2096
PP RUEHRN
DE RUEHRN #0005/01 0191815
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P R 191815Z JAN 10
FM USMISSION UN ROME
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1254
INFO RUEHRC/USDA FAS WASHDC
RUEHC/USAID WASHDC
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 0349
RUEHFR/USMISSION UNESCO PARIS FR
RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA 0059
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0453
RUEHRN/USMISSION UN ROME 1331
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 UN ROME 000005 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
GENEVA FOR FALATKO, USDA FOR DOUVELIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: FAO UN EAID EAGR PREL
SUBJECT: REFORMING THE FAO:  THE ROLE FOR THE ROME CHAPTER OF THE 
GENEVA GROUP 
 
REF: HEGADORN-FALATKO EMAILS 
 
1.  (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified.  Not for 
distribution outside U.S. Government channels. 
 
 
 
Summary 
 
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2.  (SBU) On January 14, the Mission co-hosted with UK 
counterparts a well-attended meeting of the Rome Chapter of the 
Geneva Group, and discussed ways to strengthen the group to push 
forward reforms at FAO and other Rome based UN agencies.  The 
Group agreed to become more proactive and may form smaller 
working groups on specific items of interest - such as Human 
Resource reform.  Mission circulated for consideration a draft 
letter from the Geneva Group Co-Chairs to the incoming Inspector 
General of FAO, set to begin working on February 7, to identify 
areas of concern on the oversight functions in FAO (septel 
report on UNTAI provides more details).  The letter sparked a 
lively discussion on joint letters from the Group, as a tool for 
more proactive collaboration among members in Rome.  End summary. 
 
 
 
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Human Resources Reform 
 
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2.  (SBU) Co-hosted by the Mission DCM and the U.K. Permanent 
Representative, representatives from all Geneva Group members 
(minus Russia and South Korea) discussed priorities for FAO 
reform, particularly in human resources management and oversight 
functions. Noting that 70-80 percent of the UN specialized 
agency budgets are spent on personnel-related costs, the group 
discussed ideas on reducing staff costs and inspiring a more 
motivated/ effective staff.  The Mission suggestion that the 
Group address gender inequality at FAO, where females are 
significantly underrepresented at the professional level, was 
enthusiastically endorsed by all other participants.  Members 
also discussed concerns about the level of salary increases 
recommended by the International Civil Service Commission, the 
large number of anticipated director level retirees at FAO, and 
limited employment opportunities for spouses of FAO employees. 
The group agreed to seek more employment statistics from FAO's 
Director of Human Resources and bring these issues to FAO's 
Finance Committee, and to FAO's incoming Deputy Director General 
for Operations He Changchui.  The group agreed to recommend to 
the three Rome-based UN agencies that they coordinate together 
and with host-country Italy regarding spousal employment for 
international staff of the UN. 
 
 
 
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Concerns with International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) 
 
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3.   (SBU) The Canadian Deputy Permanent Representative focused 
on the problems that ICSC "create throughout the UN system," 
primarily related to salary increase recommendations.  The 
Canadian Representative further reported that his conversations 
with Ottawa on the ICSC topic had been well-received and may 
have convinced Canada to focus on ICSC in the coming year.  The 
representative from the Netherlands agreed that ICSC-related 
salary costs were a problem and indicated he would raise the 
issue with his capital as well.  The Mexican representative 
suggested that Geneva Group Rome invite ICSC members to brief 
the Geneva Group when any of its members visit Rome. 
 
 
 
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UN ROME 00000005  002 OF 004 
 
 
 
Joint Letter to the Incoming FAO Inspector General 
 
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4.   (SBU) On February 7, FAO's new Inspector General Ian 
Fitzsimmons is expected to commence work.  Members expressed 
concern that Fitzsimmons will need help to penetrate FAO's 
bureaucracy.  To assist him, USUN Mission proposed a joint 
Geneva Group welcome letter (text in paragraph six) detailing 
potential areas for focus: risks of FAO decentralization, 
disclosure of FAO Audit and Oversight Reports to members, 
cooperation with the new FAO Ethics Officer, and improvements to 
the Audit Committee.  While all Geneva Group members agreed on 
the importance of engaging the new Inspector General, Germany, 
France, and Sweden raised concerns over whether their capitals 
would support a joint letter from the Geneva Group.  All Geneva 
Group members promised to review the letter and, at a minimum, 
jointly raise these issues with Fitzsimmons during a welcome 
reception to be hosted by the Australian Ambassador. 
 
 
 
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Geneva Group Next Steps 
 
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5.   (SBU) The Geneva Group agreed to become more proactive and 
may form smaller working groups on specific items of interest - 
such as Human Resource reform.  Going forward, the Group 
co-chairs will propose a significant increase in the number of 
meetings:  approximately six per year.  The Group agreed that 
more frequent meetings would provide the opportunity for members 
to share thoughts and possibly coordinate joint approaches both 
before and after FAO Finance and Program Committee meetings. 
The Group will also continue to provide input into the April 
Geneva Group CLM meeting and September Geneva Group meeting on 
the margins of the UNGA. 
 
 
 
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Text of Draft Letter to New FAO Inspector General 
 
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6.  (U) Begin Text of Draft Letter: 
 
 
 
Dear Inspector General Fitzsimmons: 
 
 
 
On behalf of the entire membership of the Rome-based chapter of 
the Geneva Group, we wish to congratulate you upon your 
selection as incoming Inspector General of the Food and 
Agriculture Organization, and welcome you to your new home in 
Rome.  We very much look forward to working with you and your 
staff, and to supporting you as you carry out the many 
responsibilities incumbent in this key position. 
 
 
 
With the ongoing reorganization of FAO senior management, 
including creation of an Ethics Office and Ombudsman, it would 
appear that all the components of an effective oversight 
function are in place.  We will look to you and other senior 
managers to ensure these oversight components work in harmony to 
ensure an organization with high ethical and managerial 
standards.  In addition, we wish to draw your attention to 
several important areas where work is needed, consistent with 
the Immediate Plan of Action (IPA) and recommendations of FAO's 
Internal/External Audit Committees and the Chief Executives 
Board for Coordination (CEB). 
 
UN ROME 00000005  003 OF 004 
 
 
 
 
 
To begin, proper risk management must remain a top priority of 
your office and the entire FAO organization, consistent with IPA 
conclusions and earlier discussions in FAO's governing bodies. 
We trust that you and your staff will continue to focus on 
effective enterprise risk management, not only in your biennial 
audit plan, but throughout the organization.  Specifically, we 
hope your office adequately addresses the risks of 
decentralization in the coming biennium.  The 2008 Audit 
Committee annual report was explicit on this point, identifying 
as "high risk" the state of internal controls over decentralized 
activities, and the regional office structure, generally.  In 
2008, the OIG concluded that over half of FAO country offices 
reviewed had not adequately implemented FAO's prescribed 
policies and procedures.  The report further indicated 
"significant weaknesses in key components required for an 
effective system of internal control."  The report noted that 
these weaknesses "ultimately threaten the health of the 
organization, as they considerably weaken the capacity of FAO 
country offices to manage their operations well, support the 
delivery of FAO accountability obligations, guarantee that 
activities remain within the boundaries established by FAO's 
regulatory framework, and safeguard the resources and assets 
entrusted to its care."  In light of plans to further 
decentralize authorities to FAO field offices, we trust that you 
will place the proper attention on ensuring proper safeguards 
are expeditiously put in place. 
 
 
 
We also encourage you and your office, as a matter of policy, to 
ensure maximum transparency and accountability in all its work. 
One such manifestation of such openness would be with respect to 
disclosing to Member states audit and oversight reports.  In 
this regard, we call to your attention a recommendation of the 
CEB in October of 2007 (CEB/2007/2; III. Management Issues, 
Section B) to make such reports available to Members.  We look 
forward to FAO correcting this anomaly. 
 
 
 
We welcome the establishment of a new FAO Ethics Office, and 
encourage you and your office to do all it can during its 
infancy to ensure its success.  We recognize, however, that the 
resources afforded this office are quite limited, given its 
stated scope of work.  Not only must this office formulate an 
organization-wide ethics program, but it also must institute 
from the ground up a financial disclosure program for P5 and 
senior staff, those with procurement responsibilities, and their 
dependent family members.  Formal review of these disclosure 
forms will be labor intensive, and may require assistance from 
other parts of FAO, including OIG, for follow-up of reports 
where problems/concerns are revealed. 
 
 
 
Another area where additional OIG attention is warranted is in 
the area of staff "whistle-blower" protections, beyond those 
encapsulated in the OIG Charter and on-line documentation.  Such 
protections, to be truly effective, need to be explicit and 
widely known within the organization.  We believe FAO can do 
more to strengthen and publicize among staff an explicit 
whistle-blower protection program consistent with efforts in the 
UN Secretariat and other UN funds and programs. 
 
 
 
We are also concerned, in broad terms, with the present efficacy 
of the Audit Committee, comprised of five external members - 
three of whom are effectively no longer able to perform their 
duties.  We encourage you to propose how this committee might be 
structured to ensure more relevance to the work of the 
organization.  One possibility might be that the Committee be 
comprised of both internal and external members, or that 
external members be resident in Rome. 
 
 
 
In closing, we look forward to hearing from you on the expected 
finalization and publishing of FAO's draft "Integrity Roadmap" 
which we understand is currently under senior management review. 
 We believe such a roadmap could be a useful tool to improve 
 
UN ROME 00000005  004 OF 004 
 
 
oversight of this institution.  Again, we welcome your arrival 
and look forward to a fruitful working relationship. 
 
 
 
Sincerely,  Co-Chairs of The Geneva Group, Rome Chapter 
COUSIN