Approved personnel positions for United Nations Special Political Missions (SPMs), which are diplomatic initiatives for political challenges and crises. The dataset includes counts for professional, general service, national staff, and volunteer categories. It is provided by the United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub and was last updated on March 26, —.
Use Cases
- Analyzing staffing composition and seniority levels based on the listed professional and general service categories.
- Tracking resource allocation for diplomatic crisis response based on approved mission personnel numbers.
- Modeling personnel distribution across different staff categories (e.g., UN Volunteers, National Professional Officers).
Strengths
- Explicitly lists approved personnel categories, including Professional (P-2 to D-2), General Service, National Staff, and UN Volunteers.
- Data is sourced from the authoritative United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub.
- Released under the open CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- United Nations Peace and Security Data Hub
- Collection Method
- Compilation of approved positions for Special Political Missions.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-26 09:58:47.087339; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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