A significant restructuring effort will include relocation and reduction in the overall number of staff at the United Nations Development Program, one of the leading U.N. aid agencies with an annual budget of more than $5 billion.
The plan is to reduce by approximately 10 percent the total number of staff at headquarters and regional levels, along with a “significant shift toward the region,” a UNDP spokesperson said of UNDP’s regional bureaus overseeing Africa, Arab states, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States as well as Latin America and the Caribbean.
Employees won’t need to reapply for their current position if it remains the same. But as the configuration of many teams is changing significantly, there is room for new positions, according to the spokesperson, who noted that the new UNDP structure will include a greater number of lower-level professional staff positions.