UN Special Political Missions: 16-Day Travel Booking Compliance Rates

Compliance rates for the 16-day advance booking policy across United Nations Special Political Missions. The dataset covers figures from 2015 onwards, with data for 2015-2016 reflecting the United Nations Office for West Africa and later years reflecting the merged United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel. It is provided by the United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Monitor policy adherence trends over time based on mission-specific compliance rates.
• Compare operational efficiency between different UN missions based on travel planning metrics.
• Analyze the impact of organizational mergers, like UNOWA and the Sahel office, on compliance figures.
• Support budget and resource planning based on travel coordination and cost-effectiveness data.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub.
• Explicitly documents temporal coverage and organizational changes for 2015-2016 and 2017 onwards.
• Published under the permissive CC-BY-3.0-IGO license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal UN travel and mission administration records.

Time Range

2015 onwards

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:58:54.562558; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, covering UN Special Political Missions.