CONFERENCE SERVICES SECTIONS

Office of the Chief

The Office of the Chief of the Division of Conference Services has overall responsibility for the provision of conference services (meetings support, interpretation, report writing, editing, translation, text processing, printing and reproduction) for meetings held at UNON and elsewhere under the responsibility of UNON.

It is also responsible, among other things, for formulating work programmes and fo recasting  workload  and  capacity, providing  guidance  and  implementing  the conference-servicing programmes of the client offices to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective use of available resources and facilities and  adherence to General Assembly resolutions on the organization and servicing of conferences and meetings.

The Office of the Chief manages the conference facilities at UNON in consultation with major users of conference resources at Nairobi as to their most effective utilization. In coo pe ration  with  the  Division  of Administrative Services of  UNON, it  ensure s improvements to existing facilities.

The Office of the Chief also ensures effective coordination between the services, sections and units of DCS and initiates both technical and procedural innovations to improve the efficiency of the services provided by DCS.

The responsibility of developing innovative programmes to improve the utilization rate of the conference facilities at UNON and increasing the cost-efficiency of DCS also lies with this office.

Contact persons

For any further information,please contact the following:

Mr. Rudy van Dijck Chief, Division of Conference Services Block R-136
Tel.: (254 (0) 20) 623313
E-mail: rudy.van-dijck@unon.org

Ms. Christine Wakonyo Githinji
Division of Conference Services
Tel.: (254 (0) 20) 623363 (+3hr GMT)
E-mail: christine.wakonyo@unon.org