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The first “Responsibility” listed in the 2014 Vacancy Announcement for the ACPC post comprises: “Lead mainstreaming knowledge generated and research undertaken on water both within ECA and beyond, focusing on the intersections between water and critical development sectors such as agriculture, electricity generation, infrastructure, water supply and sanitation”. (...) None of the classified functions required the appointment of candidates with skills-set relating strictly to water resources management. 37. The functions that the Applicant applied for and performed focused on water resources management which is a smaller component of the wider functions of a Senior Natural Resources Expert (Water) which was advertised by ECA in August 2013 and re-advertised in January 2014. The Applicant’s function as a water resources management expert was part of ECA’s RPTC which was complementary to ECA’s core activities. 38.

Rather, the information provided in the spreadsheet for the “Urban Basic Services Branch: Water and Sanitation Programme-2018 Active Project Portfolio” (“the 2018 portfolio spreadsheet”) was a “genuine extract of financial information for the 2018 project portfolio of all the UBSB active projects under the Water and Case No. (...) More specifically the water and sanitation project portfolio in UBSB is facing a very tight financial situation in 2018. (...) Managing resource mobilization for water and sanitation projects 2. Managing quality assurance of water and sanitation projects being implemented by ROs [assumedly meaning regional offices] and other Branches 3.

The Applicant has been working as a Water and Sanitation Technician at the FS-4 level at El-Daein, Sector East, Darfur, since 1 February 2009 to date. 7. (...) That the Applicant scored 64 points in the comparative review of the four Water and Sanitation Technicians and that he was ranked lowest. (...) Two of the four available posts of Water and Sanitation Technicians at the FS-4 level were abolished, one effective 31 March 2019 and the other effective 30 June 2019.

The Applicant is a Senior Coordination Officer, P-5, with the Water and Sanitation Unit of the United Nations Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi, Kenya. 2. (...) The decision to reassign the Applicant to Nairobi was based on a genuine need for a senior water and sanitation program officer to engage in rigorous resource mobilization to shore up the Water and Sanitation portfolio of UBSB that had been declining for the last seven years. (...) He pled that the Applicant’s reassignment to Nairobi was based on the need for a senior water and sanitation officer to engage in rigorous resource mobilization for the water and sanitation portfolio of UBSB which had been declining for many years. 27.

Additionally, the Respondent did not dispute that the funds used for garbage collection came from the house rental which were not UNDP funds. Water bills and staff resources 72. The same pattern happened in relation to water bills. (...) The Respondent alleged that the Applicant used staff to process and pay water bills on her behalf. The Applicant responded that the water bills were in UNDP’s name as landlord and hence the misunderstanding. (...) Musing aloud, the UNDP was paying for water bills used at BCP site which was within the Applicant’s compound and for the office, it makes absolute sense that instead of the countenance of the United Nations RC/UNDP RR queuing at a water utility company (most probably during working time), a member of her staff responsible for paying UNDP water bills could take the Applicant’s bill along for payment.

The Applicant served as a Water and Sanitation Technician at the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (“UNAMID”). (...) He sought clarification and was informed that he had, in fact, been rated against Water and Sanitation Technicians. 6. It is the Applicant’s case that the decision to abolish his post is tainted by extraneous factors and that the “last in first to go” approach should have been applied in respect of the Water and Sanitation Technicians. 7. (...) UNDT/NBI/2019/030 Judgment No.: UNDT/2020/168 3 Water and Sanitation Technicians using the same evaluation criteria.

El-Awar was to “provide strategic advice on the programmes on water and sanitation”. Nothing was stated regarding the funding source of Mr. (...) More specifically the water and sanitation project portfolio in UBSB is facing a very tight financial situation in 2018. (...) El-Awar’s post was to be funded through the entire UBSB water-and-sanitation portfolio. 17 ibid.

Initially, she also paid water bills. But in March 2015, she received multiple water bills because of errors made by the utility company due to multiple water metres being installed on the compound. (...) Lekoetje resumed her payment of water bills in March 2017 and paid some of them back only upon becoming aware of the OAI investigation. The UNDT had no evidence to support its finding that paying water bills required “queuing at a water utility company (most probably during working time)”.12 Contrary to the UNDT’s findings, the Procurement Associate did not ask the UNDT to strike the charge that Ms.

RS or Ms. RL to bring water or coffee almost every day. Often, the Applicant also asked Ms. (...) RL. With regard to watering the garden, she maintains that caring for the facilities was part of Ms. (...) Regarding refilling water for her, she maintains that requests for water were commonplace in the office and other staff also made similar requests. 36.

El-Awar joined the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in 2008 as a Programme Manager with the Global Water Operators Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA), at UN-Habitat’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. GWOPA is an alliance of partners established by UN-Habitat to promote the effective use of not-for-profit peer support partnerships through mutual assistance among the water and sanitation operators to realize its mission to achieve universal access to sustainable water and sanitation. It was launched in 2007 and was initially hosted by UN-Habitat’s Water Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch based in Nairobi.