– 66 – (2.2 – Human resources management) resolves 1 to encourage Member States and Sector Members to put forward for leadership and elected positions, and to suggest for ITU staff positions, especially at professional and higher levels, appropriately qualified woman candidates; 2 to request the Secretary-General to allocate appropriate resources, within existing budgetary limits, to establish a gender perspective full-time dedicated staff, invites the Secretary-General 1 to develop an action plan and procedures to address immediately and urgently the lack of gender representation in ITU staff, especially in the professional and higher categories, and to provide this action plan and procedures, together with information on their implementation and effectiveness, to Council 2002; 2 to propose appropriate modifications of the Staff Regulations in order to better promote gender perspective in ITU, instructs the Secretary-General and the Directors of the Bureaux to report to Council 2002 on progress made to incorporate the gender perspective in the work of the General Secretariat and the respective Sectors. Ref.: Documents C2001/123 and C2001/132. R 1195 Effective Human Resources Management in the Union (C-2002) The Council, recalling a) Resolution 1181 “Recommendations on ITU Reform”, adopted by the Council 2001, and in particular Recommendation CR6 in Annex 1 to that Resolution (Doc. C2001/117) instructing the Secretary- General to prepare a comprehensive report to Council-02 on effective human resources management in the Union; b) Resolution 1187 “Gender perspective in ITU Human Resource Management, Policy and Practice” (Doc. C2001/123), adopted by the Council 2001, having considered The Report of the Secretary-General contained in Doc. C02/27, and the Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Council contained in Doc. C02/47; recognizing that the current contract employment policies in the ITU have evolved over a number of years and are implemented through the use of multiple types of contracts; that the human resources management policies of the ITU need to remain consistent with the standards established by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) for the UN common system; that the standards established by the ICSC on contracts policies and staff performance appraisal policies serve as recommendations to the UN organizations;