Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

Welcome to the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM)

With more than 1,100 staff members in New York and 2,200 worldwide, including the conference-servicing staff based in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) is one of the largest departments in the Organization. Our mission is to enhance communication among Member States by facilitating dialogue and cooperation and, in the process, contributing to the realization of the goals and objectives outlined in the Charter of the United Nations.

to facilitate, through the provision of technical secretariat support and authoritative advice, the effective conduct of the deliberations and follow-up actions of the General Assembly, its General and First Committees, its Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth) Committee and various subsidiary organs and its Second and Third Committees, the Economic and Social Council and most of the Council’s subsidiary and ad hoc bodies, and special United Nations conferences and expert bodies meetings dealing with disarmament, international security and economic, social and related matters In addition, the Department provides administrative support to the Office of the President of the General Assembly;

to ensure, through integrated global management, the provision of high-quality conference-servicing support, namely meetings and documentation services, to all intergovernmental and expert bodies. The management of meetings servicing includes conference planning and organization, the provision of meeting room facilities and the required services, including interpretation.. The management of documentation services covers the submission, editing, editing of official records, referencing, translation, text-processing, copy preparation and proofreading, printing and distribution of documents and publications. By producing documentation in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, the six official languages of the United Nations, DGACM is at the forefront of multilingualism in our Organization. Selected documents are also translated into German.

In performing their duties, the secretariat teams assigned to the intergovernmental bodies, translators, verbatim reporters, interpreters, revisers, terminologists, editors, reference assistants, précis-writers, copy-preparers, proof-readers, text-processors, printing and distribution officers, as well as the staff members who provide general support in all these areas, pay maximum attention to quality as requested by Member States.

Often working behind the scenes, DGACM staff make a quiet but essential contribution to the work of the United Nations.