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 What
is Hazard Pay?
Hazard pay is a form of compensation
granted to staff members who have been requested to remain and report for
work in duty stations where very hazardous conditions, such as war or
active hostilities, prevailed and where the evacuation of families and
nonessential staff had taken place.
The Chairman of the International Civil
Service Commission (ICSC) is responsible for authorizing the application
of hazard pay to a duty station, based on the recommendation of the United
Nations Security Coordinator. The authorization is normally for a period
of up to three months at a time, and is subject to ongoing review. The
application of hazard pay is lifted when hazardous conditions are deemed
to have abated.
List
of countries/duty stations where payment of hazard pay has been approved,
with effect from 1 June through 31 August 2009:
- AFGHANISTAN 1 /
- ALGERIA (for Algiers only) 1/
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (except Bangui, Lobaye and Mbaiki)
- CHAD
- CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF (except for Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and the province of Bandundu)
- COTE D’IVOIRE (discontinued in all areas except Guiglo security area south of the “Green Line” only)
- ERITREA (Anseba (Sub Zobas of Asmat, Habero, Kerkebet and Sela); Gash Barka Zoba; Northern Red Sea (Sub Zobas of Adobha, Afabet, Karura, Nakfa); and the Temporary Security Zone)
- ETHIOPIA (in Afar east of the Dese-Mekela Road and north of the Kombolcha-Djibouti Road and Asseita; in the Somali Region the border area with Kenya including Moyale and Tigray, north of Adigrat, Axum and Inda Selassie towns and the Gambela Region)
- GAZA (excluding the city of Jerusalem)
- GEORGIA (Abkhazia; the Upper Svaneti region, South Ossetia, Pankisi Valley and the security restricted weapons zones south of the Inguri river (including Zugdidi) 2/
- GUINEA (Beyla, Conakry, Labe and Kankan and provinces of Kissidougou and refugee camps in Gueckedou and Languette, Macenta, Kounankan, Nzerekore and provinces of Yomou and Lola)
- HAITI
- INDIA (Indian administered side of the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir less Ladakh)
- IRAQ 1/
- KENYA (the entire North-eastern province, districts of Moyale and Marsabit in Eastern province and Kakuma, Lodwar and Lokichoggio in the Turkana district)
- LEBANON (South of Litani River, except the Tyre pocket)
- LIBERIA
- NIGER (in the Northern region of Agadez)
- PAKISTAN (areas of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribunal Areas (FATAs) at the following locations below:
- The provincial capital Peshawar
- FATAs – Federally Administered Tribunal areas of (Bajur Agency, Khyber Agency, Kurram Agency, Mohmand Agency, North Waziristan, South Waziristan and Orakzai Agency
- Frontier Regions bordering federally administered tribunal areas (Bannu, Derra Ishmail Khan, Hangu, Kohat (Darra Adamkhel), Lakki Marwat, Peshawar and Tank
- Southern Districts of North-West Frontier Province (Bannu, Derra Ishmail Khan, Hangu, Karak, Kohat, Lakki Marwat, and Tank
- Northern Districts of North-West Frontier Province (Buner, Malakand, Shangla, Swat, Upper and Lower Dir
- Settled areas within North-West Frontier Province (Charsadda, Mardan, Nowshera and Swabi
- Addtional areas of North-West Frontier Province (Chitral, Kohistan, Shangla, Haripur, Mansehra, Abbotabad and in the Punjab areas of Attock District and the Rawalpindi District) 3/
- Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Quetta (including the nine districts of Baluchitan-Zhob, Chaman, Chagai, Qilla, Saifullah, Pishin, Sibi, Kholu and Dera Bugti) 4 /
- PHILIPPINES (Southern Philippines to cover all of the Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago) 5 /
- RUSSIAN FEDERATION (Caucasus region: Republics of North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan)
- SOMALIA 1/
- SRI LANKA (All areas in the Northern and Eastern Provinces including the districts of Ampara, Batticaloa, Jaffna, Kilnochchi, Mannar, Mulaittvu, Trincomalee and Vavuniya)
- SUDAN
- UGANDA (Karamoja region)
- YEMEN 6 /
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1/ As an exceptional measure approved by the International Civil Service Commission, national staff in the following locations are eligible to receive the extended hazard pay regardless of whether they are required to report to work or not: Afghanistan, effective 1 March 2009; Algeria (Algiers only) and Iraq, effective 1 May 2008; Somalia, effective 1 May 2009.
2/ Hazard pay has been approved for additional areas of Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia with retroactive effect from 22 December 2008. The areas are as follows:Abano, Adzvi, Akhalgori District, Akhalsheni, Akhalubani, Akhrisi, Arbo, Atotsi, Avlevi, Bershuueti, Bredza, Brotsleti, Cherinisi, Chorchana, Didi Kurvaleti, Didi Mejvriskhevi, Dirbi, Ditsi, Djanasheni, Dvani, Dzevera, Dzlevidjvari, Ergneti, Gogeti, Goraka, Gugutiantkari, Gulikaantubani, Gvaurebi, Karapili, Karbi, Kelktseuli, Kere, Kirbali, Kiritsnisi, Knolevi, Koda, Kodistskaro, Kordi, Koshka, Kvemo Artsevi, Kvemo Khviti, Kvemo Nikozi, Kvemo Sobisi, Kveshi, Marana, Megvrekisi, Mejudispiri, Mereti, Mumliantkari, Odzisi, Patara Garedjvari, Patara Khurvaleti, Patara Mejvriskhevi, Perevi, Pkhvenisi, Plavi, Plavtsmini, Sakorintlo, Saribari, Satemo, Satsikhuri, Shertuli, Shindisi, Takhtisdziri, Tamarasheni, Tergvisi, Tirdznisi, Tkviavi, Tortiza, Tsagvli, Tseronisi, Tsitsagiantkari, Zadiankari, Zemo Khviti, Zemo Nikozi, Zemo Sobisi, Zerti. (Kindly note that, while Akhalgori District is included in the list above and is also in security phase III, the United Nations has been denied access to this area since the hostilities of last August 2008.)
3/ The introduction of hazard pay has been approved, effective 6 March 2009.
4/ Hazard
pay was introduced, retroactive to 1 December 2008.
5/ The introduction of hazard pay in Southern Philippines to cover all of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago has been approved, with retroactive effect from 5 August 2008.
6/ The introduction of hazard pay has been approved, retroactive to 12 October 2008.
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