At DESA's DPADM a P5 job is at play - who will get it?

Increase in nominations for the United Nations Public Service Awards

Public institutions from 44 countries have submitted over 200 nominations for the 2010 United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA). The number of nominations has increased this year by 23.2% compared to last year. Public institutions from Africa, Europe and North America, as well as Western Asia have submitted a growing number of nominations. The Asia and the Pacific region continues to provide the highest number of nominations (although this year their contribution decreased slightly).

Contact Information:
Haiyan Qian, Director, DPADM qianh@un.org
John-Mary Kauzya, Chief, Governance and Public Administration, kauzya@un.org
Adriana Alberti, Coordinator of the United Nations Public Service Awards Programme, alberti@un.org

CAIMED - Millions of dollars sinked into the sea of Naples on fake project/activities

the name is Center for Administrative Innovation in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, location is Naples or Napoli the "garbage" and "gomorra" capital of Italy.

It's aim was noble to create: 

An open space for the exchange of information and knowledge on innovation in public administration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region. Jointly managed by UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) and Formez (Training and Study Centre), Caimed is an On-Line Regional Centre of the United Nations Global Network on Public Administration (UNPAN)

but so far except a couple of failed regional meetings and round tables, the multi-million Euro project ended without any tangible results.

Instead the only substantive result was to spend 87% of its budgets into fake Project Officers , Support Administrative Staff and Consultants - whom actually never worked a single day at the Naples Center. The Chief Technical Advisor of the Project instead of being located in Naples/Italy as per the agreed MoU with Italian Government ended up seating next door to Guido Bertucci in New York, thousands of miles away and managed to visit the project only twice during its 5 years life span. 

Most importantly in a latest review has become clear that Bertucci, De-Tomassi and Oveissi awarded the MoU to Formez (the Italian Counterpart NGO) without any international bid nor competitive process. 

Millions of dollars were let go without any final evaluation nor a final-exit report. Hundreds of thousand of dollars spent in Project Assets were "disposed" without any care resulting in almost a quarter of million dollars in "write-off". 

WEBSITE OF THE CENTER

CENTER'S STAFF 

(Including a totally illegal and non-existent Catherine Gazzoli,) 

What nationality is Adriana Alberti's husband?

We have spoken before about Adriana Alberti's attempts to change her real nationality (American born) to Italian in order to profit the UN International Benefits while in New York. 

But the case of Alberti is becoming couriouser and couriouser by the day. People close to Furio De Tomassi's told us a very interesting story:

1. Dec 2002: 

Adriana Alberti flies to Morocco to attend the 4th Global Forum as Governance Expert;

- During the trip she get's married to a Moroccan 7 years younger than her;

2. Jan 2003: 

- This Moroccan fellow is hired from UN-DESA's TCMS (Marie Oveissi / Furio De Tomassi) without any competitive selection process as a Support Staff at the Statistics Office of  UN-DESA;

- At the time eventhough there was a freeze and was not allowed to hire foreign staff at "G" level positions, he comes in as 

 - Position: G3 - temporary 

-  Nationality: Moroccan

3. Jan 2005

this Moroccan goes out of the blue from Moroccan Nationality to United States Citizen and magically he ends up with:

- Position: G4 - fix term

- Nationality: USA

4. Jan 2008

this Moroccan goes even farther. He undertakes the US National Competitive Exam and ends up....guess what?

- Position: P3 - Permanent contract

- Nationality: USA

While many would question the above fast-track career of this Moroccan born, Italian acquired and sworned in US Citizen, we don't have any problem with it, and wish him good luck. 

The question though is raised that how come that Alberti's husband claims to be US Citizen (by marriage with Adriana Alberti) and is registered as US Nationality in the system - - -  while Ms. Alberti denies her legal US Citizenship and register herself as Italian Nationality in the UN  System? 

I bet she had to sworn in and file for her husband at US Immigration and Naturalization Service in order for him to acquire US Citizenship. I bet that, like everyone else, "Mr. Alberti" had to wait for at least 5 long years to get his passport in the mail.

So Adriana Alberti claim her American Nationality only for her husband to get an American Passport to travel around the globe, but when it come to honoring America and the serving America at the United Nations she willingly throws her american Nationality in the garbage for her acquired Italian one - -  just to profit more.

Its ludicrous to have the husband US Citizen ( Moroccan born) and the wife Italian Citizen (US born).

We call Ms. Ahlenius of OIOS to investigate immediately UN-DESA's Human Resources and TCMS before Furio De Tomassi and Marie Oveissi destroy Adriana Alberti's file for ever.

Furio De Tomassi illegally shortlisted and selected Adriana Alberti as Italian Associate Expert

Adriana Alberti, a New Jersey born, was illegally selected and hired as Italian Associate Expert from Furio De Tomassi. 

Is outrageous to even think that a person with such a controversial CV (click here for our story) that has paid no taxes in Italy during her entire life be selected and deprive a real italian from being selected for this job. But it seem that for Mr. De Tomassi and Catherine Pelluso rules do not apply. This fake italian made it to New York, as an "Italian Associate Expert".

Only to find out that 18 months later she had to resign and be expelled from the DESA's Associate Experts Programme for not declaring and paying US Taxes. The scandal at that time was again kept under the radar of everyone, thanks to Catherine Pelluso and Marie Oveisi who bent over to Bertucci and De Tomassi and arranged with the UN Tax Unit that Alberti pay all accumulated taxes. Today all the above has been doctored from the file of Alberti at Oveissi's office.

But Alberti was made to work for her uncle, and therefore only few months passed from the above scandal until her return - this time from the "window" when De Tomassi again, hired her as a Consultant under a Regional Italian Project at DPADM/DESA. She would never undergo any selection or proper HR scrutiny.

Today Alberti is a "respected" Senior Advisor in DESA's Governance Division. There is a problem though. This fake ITALIAN continue to be in the system as ITALIAN. She declares and receives International benefits, even-though she is a US citizen and finally pays US taxes (not even a dime in Italian taxes). 

Furio De Tommassi and Catherine Pelluso are the direct responsible for allowing this US citizen to collect $189,000 US Dollars in International Benefits (so far) when she should have been hired as a local consultant and/or expert. 

Mr. Sha Zukang should call the UN Tax Unit and take the files of Alberti of her years as Associate Expert where she was obliged to pay all accumulated taxes and was expelled for lying to UN and not disclosing her being a US citizen.

Mr. Sha Zukang should initiate an investigation into the hiring and retaining of the services of Adriana Alberti and other so-called Italian Associate Experts who currently work for DESA/DPADM and the way they made it thru the system.

Mr. Sha Zukang should make public the finding of his investigation and held responsible those managers who acted against the rules and regulations of the UN system.

The staff of UNDESA deserve to know what is going on. 

Bogus project with two fake CTA's in New York and no one working in the center

Today we will visit a bogus project, totally fake and inexistent with a fake website and no products, but that pays well and keeps two CTA's at Headquarters in New York, while nothing exists on the ground.

http://www.unpan.org/innovmed/index.asp

Within the framework of United Nations’ efforts to promote economic and social development, the Programme for Innovation in Public Administration in the Euro-Mediterranean region has been established to assist interested governments in improving their governance and public administration systems and to provide policy makers, experts and citizens in general with relevant regional knowledge and information on governance.

Who implements the Programme?

The Programme is implemented by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, through its Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), with the support of Formez – Training and Research Centre based in Rome, with branches in Naples (Arco Felice) and Cagliari, Italy. It has been launched in mid 2003.

Who funds the Programme?

The Programme is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Italy through Funds in Trust to UNDESA.

From the above one would think that this "huge" project funded with Italian Taxpayers money, have huge offices and thousands of activities on the ground. Well hold your thought, the project is composed by the following staff:

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Adriana Alberti, Chief Technical Adviser  Programme on Innovation in Public Administration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region  Governance and Public Administration Branch  Division for Public Administration and Development Management  United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Email: alberti@un.org Phone: 212-963-2299

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Laila Fala, Governance Specialist  Programme on Innovation in Public Administration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region  Governance and Public Administration Branch  Division for Public Administration and Development Management  United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Email: falal@un.org Phone: 917-367-5012

Yes both of them in New York, implementing and "running" an inter-regional project from the 17th floor of DC2 building...... But why be so mean and not trust them - give them the benefit of the doubt? Let's review together  the above mentioned website, maybe they really did what they say they did.....

WHAT'S NEW?

Upsss - There is nothing new (Click here) 

REGIONAL INFORMATION ON GOVERNANCE?

Upsss - a blind copy of CIA country profile with UNDP links (Click here)

INNOVATORS NETWORKS? 

Upps - words but there are not networks - the links are bogus and lead you no-where...(Click here) 

BEST PRACTICES?

please don't even go there - is like buying a designer bag in Naples - its so fake and empty and lead to no where.. (click here) 

PILOT PROJECTS?

Uppsss...after 5 years there are not pilot projects....(Click here) 

If you happen to go to Naples in Italy among many things they sell for turists are some typic metal box-es beautifully hand-painted - with script - "THE BOX CONTAINS AIR FROM SORRENTO"......

Well it seems that Guido Bertucci, Adriana Alberti and some other unknown elements have been selling .....well ......PURE AIR...... to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Meanwhile the two ladies in New York who are supposed to maintain the above AIR-BOX receive the following remunerations:

Adriana Alberti (P5)

annual Salary After deductions: US$121,774.31

monthly Salary After deductions: US$ 10,147.86

Laila Fala (L4)

annual Salary After deductions: US$108,857.80

monthly Salary After deductions: US$ 9,071.48

And the kids in Gaza continue to die waiting for United Nations to save them...........

Alberti abuses dual citizenship to obtain International benefits while in US

In all her documentation Adriana Alberti claims to be Italian. Including in UNPAN, IMIS, and other places. It looks that this girl don't want to admit and seem to be shameful of being an American. But was she always a pure Italian ?

What is Dual Citizenship ? Dual citizenship means that an individual is a citizen of two countries at the same time. It is also possible to be a citizen of three or more countries. However, every country has its own laws regarding dual citizenship. Some countries allow it; others do not, while some have no particular laws regarding dual citizenship. Dual citizenship is not something that can be applied for. It is a process that happens when a person becomes a citizen of another country, in addition to his or her country of birth. Dual citizenship occurs automatically to some individuals, for example: a child is born in the United States to foreign parents. In this example this child has U.S. Dual Citizenship since the child is automatically a citizen of the United States and a citizen of its parent's home country. 

This is typically the case of Adriana Alberti, she was born in New Jersey, to Italian parents, and acquired her Italian citizenship thru them. 

But after reading her controversial CV, and how she describes her past, one can't stop having double thoughts about this fake italian. Have she ever attended any schooling in Italy while claiming and residing in New Jersey? 

Another issue is that how can Furio De Tomassi and Catherine Pelluso admit and accept and award international benefits to a New Jersey born staffer who claims she is Italian, but because of those very claims lost her first assignment of Italian Associate Expert? How can her "home station" in personnel files is Bologna? When was the last time Ms. Alberti resided in Bologna? When was the last time Ms. Alberti paid a single dollar or euro or lira to Italian Taxes Authority?