Organization of the Secretariat

The Secretary-General's Bulletin on the Organization of the Secretariat sets out the organizational structure of the Secretariat, the main coordination bodies, and the responsibilities of heads of departments/offices, programme managers and executive offices/administrative units.

Organization of the Secretariat
The current bulletin on the Organization of the Secretariat is ST/SGB/2015/3.

Previous bulletins:
 * ST/SGB/1997/5, amended by ST/SGB/2002/11
 * ST/SGB/Organization

Current departments and offices
The bulletins for current departments and offices are as follows:

Departments and offices formerly part of the Secretariat
The bulletins for entities no longer considered part of the Secretariat are as follows:

Defunct departments and offices
The bulletins for select defunct departments and offices are as follows:

Organizational nomenclature
The norms established for organizational nomenclature are as follows:

In cases where an organizational element meets the criterion of number of posts, but the level of the head is above the criteria for that level, more weight should be given to number of posts than to level of head.

Documents

 * A/C.5/32/17 Organizational nomenclature in the Secretariat: Report of the Secretary-General
 * A/C.5/33/6 Organizational nomenclature in the Secretariat: Report of the Secretary-General
 * ST/AI/409, Annex: Guidelines for the preparation of ST/SGB/Organization