Content_paragraphs:  UNITAMS has reached its initial operational capacity. The Special 
  
  Representative and section chiefs for all the substantive units are on the ground. In 
  
  addition, the Deputy Special Representative, who also serves as the Resident 
  
  Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, Khardiata Lo N’Diaye, took up her duties 
  
  during the reporting period, in mid-March. Eleven individual police officers were 
  
  deployed and two experts from the Standing Police Capacity arrived as the advance 
  
  team for the Police Advisory Unit. Recruitment and onboarding of priority national 
  
  and international staff positions for 2021 continued. As at 1 May, 12 national staff 
  
  and 62 international staff were either onboard or en route to the Sudan. UNITAMS 
  
  continues to make every effort to achieve both geographical diversity and gender 
  
  balance in its first year of operation.