This is a summary of Faforeport 2023:16 on the challenge of retaining Norwegian Junior Professional Officers and increasing the number of Norwegians in the UN system commissioned by Norec. The paper expands somewhat a presentation of the report’s key findings to the “Nordic meeting on JPO, UNV secondments” at Norec, 27 April 2023. It includes a slightly amended version of the PowerPoint Presentation and comments on each of the slides to facilitate their interpretation.