What Is Umoja?
Umoja is a single, global solution that is enabling efficient and transparent management of the United Nation’s financial, human and physical resources and improving programmatic delivery. As acatalyst for business transformation, Umoja is improving financial and administrative operations, and program delivery with a potential to improve the efficiency and the overall effectiveness of the Organization.
Where are we now?
Following approval by the General Assembly in December 2020, the Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Division (ERPSD) was established on 1 January 2021. Its primary objectives being to:
- Improve and support all deployed Umoja solutions
- Continue to innovate and introduce fit-for-purpose exciting
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Latest News
As you will have seen in the article The upgraded Umoja is live! the Umoja EhP8 upgrade was successfully completed as planned at 23:00 EDT on 9 April 2024 . As mentioned in the article What you need to know about the upcoming Umoja upgrade, users will now be able to access Employee Self-Service (ESS) and Manager Self-Service (MSS) through all major browsers including Microsoft Edge*, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. In addition, the ESS/MSS…
The Umoja EhP8 upgrade has successfully completed as planned at 23:00 EDT on 9 April 2024. This major upgrade of the Umoja system will enable the UN in its journey of digital transformation, supporting the Secretary-General’s vision of UN 2.0 and the Quintet of Change. Furthermore, the upgrade provides a platform to significantly improve the user experience through the Umoja UX 2.0 project which will be deployed in the coming months and years…
Sunitha Korithiwada, Director of the Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Division, discusses the upcoming Umoja upgrade: When will this upgrade take place? The upgrade is scheduled to start on Friday 5 April 2024 at 5 PM EDT (23:00 CEST) and is anticipated to last until Wednesday 10 April 2024 at 8 PM EDT (Thursday 11 April 2024 at 02:00 CEST). Who should users contact during the blackout period? Users should contact their HR team and/or local…
Umoja authentication will soon switch from Unite ID (formerly called EIDMS) to Microsoft Azure, to enable Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Office365, to enhance the security of the Umoja solution and improve the user experience. Users who have signed in to Office365 or Umoja on their browsers will benefit from SSO, eliminating the need to login separately to these solutions. Azure supports multi-factor authentication (MFA), which reduces the risk of…
The next phase of the Uniformed Capabilities Management (UCM) system, part of the Umoja Extension 2 portfolio, has been implemented with the introduction of: the Uniformed Strength Reporting (USR) module, the Conduct and Discipline Cases (CDC) module, and the Pending Adjustment module. The solution also includes enhanced Claims, Calculations and Payments modules, used to process personnel cost reimbursements. “These system enhancements and the…
