Finance and Administration, Human Resources Development Sections
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The MRC has continued its stringent budgeting rules and maintained a surplus in the operating expenses budget. With both the overall expenditure rate of the MRC and the number of staff at the Secretariat rising over the year, the workload on the Finance and Administration Section (FAS) increased, but the section was able to cope without any major expansion required within the section itself.
Notable events conducted by FAS over the year included the installation of working facilities for visiting Council and Joint Committee members at the Secretariat, and major input into the tendering process for recruitment of an international consulting firm to implement the “structural measures and flood proofing” project within the Flood Mitigation and Management Programme.
The Human Resources Development Section has, in cooperation with FAS, organised regular orientation and information sessions for staff at both the MRCS in Vientiane and the Regional Flood Mitigation and Management Centre in Phnom Penh. Orientation sessions are designed to familiarise staff with MRC and MRCS procedures.
| Increasing number of staff at MRCS | end of year | ||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| General support staff | 63 | 70 | 68 |
| Riparian professional staff | 38 | 43 | 48 |
| International staff | 14 | 16 | 15 |
| Total | 115 | 129 | 131 |
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