Field Issues

2020 Report of the 73rd session of the FICSA Council

2020 - Report of the Standing Committee on the FIELD - FICSA/C/73/FIELD/R.1

Standing Committee on Conditions of Service in the Field advises the Executive Committee on issues affecting staff in field duty stations:

  • Safety and security: assured by the Inter-Agency Security Management Network (IASMN).
  • Issues include: security training for staff; mobility; emergency telecommunications; residential security; and road safety, gender consideration in security management
  • Field allowances and benefits: these include hardship allowance, a non-pensionable allowance designed to compensate for the degree of hardship experienced by staff assigned to difficult duty stations, payable to internationally-recruited staff on assignment of one year or more; additional hardship allowance/non-family service allowance, introduced on 1 July 2011 for staff serving in non-family duty stations. An incentive for staff to undertake assignments at non-family locations; mobility incentive, should be to encourage mobility of staff in general to field duty stations; Rest and recuperation framework, viewed as a way to relieve accumulated stress under the difficult and dangerous conditions that characterized non-family duty stations
  • Review of hardship duty stations: participate in the review and classification of hardship duty stations according to conditions of life and work, security, health, isolation and environmental factors

Resources:

Classification of duty stations according to the level of hardship and what you need to know before your next deployment - Veronique Allain, Member for Regional and Field Issues

Classifications of hardship duty stations - What does it mean in the duty of care regime and what can i do to impact them? -  Line Kaspersen, FAO, Uganda

Serving the Africa region during COVID-19 and beyond - Anthony Ndinguri, FICSA Regional Representative for Africa

2020 Annual Review of Hardship Duty Stations - Mandatory Submissions for Africa region - Deadline passed (11 September)

FICSA eLearning resources on the Hardship Classification of Duty Stations

The results of the 2020 Annual Review of Field Duty Stations according to the Conditions of Life and Work has been published by the ICSC. This Tripartite Working Group met between 1 to 7 December 2020 to review the hardship ratings for each of the duty stations reviewed.

Danger pay - COVID 19 effective from 1 January to 31 March 2021

ICSC Data Danger Pay

 

 

 

 

Standing Committees Chairs and Vice-Chairs

  • Cosimo Melpignano

    Cosimo Melpignano

    Standing Committee Chair

    UNGSC

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    Cosimo Melpignano

    Cosimo Melpignano

    Standing Committee Chair - Field Issues

    UNGSC

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  • Line Kaspersen

    Line Kaspersen

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair

    AP-in-FAO

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    Line Kaspersen

    Line Kaspersen

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair - Field Issues

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  • Vito Musa

    Vito Musa

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair

    UNGSC

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    Vito Musa

    Vito Musa

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair - Field Issues

    UNGSC

    In 2003 he joined the Procurement section at UNGSC, Brindisi, Italy. As a procurement assistant he supported Peacekeeping and Special Political Missions through the purchase of goods and services in support of the UN activities in the field.

    In 2010, he achieved the CIPS Foundation Diploma in Purchasing and Supply expanding the knowledge in the area of contract management, supply chain as well as negotiation skills.  

    In 2013 he was certified as Umoja Train The Trainers and as Umoja Local Process Expert. On November 2013 he was selected to lead the Umoja Master Data Management team responsible for the maintenance of Commercial Business Partners for all UN Secretariat EntitiesIn 2017, following the round of elections he joined the LSU Executive Committee as Vice President.

    Academic Background: Master’s degree in economics at the University of Lecce (Italy) in 1999

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STANDING COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES

Safety and security

Safety and security assured by the Inter-Agency Security Management Network (IASMN). Issues include: security training for staff; mobility; emergency telecommunications; residential security; and road safety, gender consideration in security management

Field allowances and benefits

These include hardship allowance, a non-pensionable allowance designed to compensate for the degree of hardship experienced by staff assigned to difficult duty stations, payable to internationally-recruited staff on an assignment of one year or more; additional hardship allowance/non-family service allowance, introduced on 1 July 2011 for staff serving in non-family duty stations. An incentive for staff to undertake assignments at non-family locations; mobility incentive, should be to encourage mobility of staff in general to field duty stations; Rest and recuperation framework, viewed as a way to relieve accumulated stress under the difficult and dangerous conditions that characterized non-family duty stations

Non-HQ salary surveys for locally recruited staff

Non-HQ salary surveys for locally recruited staff ensures the objective application of the salary survey methodology for establishing salaries for locally recruited staff including NPOs.

Review of hardship duty stations

Participate in the review and classification of hardship duty stations according to conditions of life and work, security, health, isolation and environmental factors

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Issues raised at last FICSA councils

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