C Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the functioning of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts

Takes note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the functioning of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts 4

The minister for national defense, acting in cooperation with the minister for interior, coordinates the work of the four major committees under the National Defense Council the Military Defense Committee the Civil Defense Committee the Economic Defense Committee and the Psychological Defense Committee.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services has undertaken to provide the UNCC secretariat with continuing advice on the conduct of this process.

Two issues within UNHCR relate to that recommendation the Oversight Committee and internal audit ratings.

Follow up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil for Food Programme.

OIOS is not convinced that placing the Coordination Unit's functions within the Office of Policy and Programme Coordination has been the best solution.

To guide it towards reform, Indonesia had also set up an anti corruption commission and was cooperating with its neighbours in preventing and combating corruption.

4.4 Following the national general elections in July 2002, the Electoral Commission (2002) made 31 recommendations to the Minister for Internal Affairs.

(f) Note by the Secretary General transmitting the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the functioning of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts (A 58 294).

3. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that the Office of Internal Oversight Services continues to provide internal oversight of the entire claims process of the United Nations Compensation Commission and to report regularly thereon in the context of the annual reports of the Office

ALLEA, the European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities, has a Standing Committee on Science and Ethics which is concerned with a wide range of problems, 'internal' (within the scientific community) and 'external' (relations between science and society) (http www.allea.org index.html).

This significant percentage calls for an examination of the internal mechanisms used by CIAT to evaluate risk reports.

OIOS advised ECA management to implement the Coordination Unit's recommendations and it decided to do so by January 2004.

It notes that the terms of reference of the Risk Management and Internal Oversight Committee have been signed by the Executive Director and were effective 6 May 2005.

This, together with my announcement to establish a Management Oversight Committee and other initiatives to strengthen integrity, accountability and oversight, provides a solid foundation for an improved internal governance framework for the Organization.

Ms. Kuroda (Japan) said that the status of the implementation of the recommendations of OIOS varied from commission to commission, but it was encouraging that all of them would be implemented by 2006.

The Advisory Committee is of the opinion that the establishment of operational and budgetary independence for OIOS is of utmost importance and that it does not depend on the creation of an independent audit advisory committee.

Requests the Secretary General to review without delay options to better safeguard the independence of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts, including the option identified in recommendation 1 of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the functioning of the Headquarters Committee on Contracts

At the beginning of 2003, OIOS endorsed the Coordination Unit's initiatives and its recommendations to strengthen the role of subregional offices within ECA and encouraged the Coordination Unit to follow through with its plans to establish a web based system for the exchange of information between the offices.

The secretariat further informed the Board that UNCC intended to continue to abide by the legal opinion dated 27 November 2002 prepared by the Office of Legal Affairs with respect to the proper scope of the Office of Internal Oversight Services audit of UNCC.

OIOS believes that this disruption and loss of institutional memory was caused by a lack of proper handover during the absorption of the Coordination Unit's functions by the Office of Policy and Programme Coordination.

As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen internal governance and control mechanisms, a planning and budget advisory committee, an audit committee and an information and communications technology (ICT) steering committee were established.

Members of the Board took note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the evaluation of the Fund conducted pursuant to paragraph 39 of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003 32, which they discussed with interest.

Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the triennial review of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee for Programme and Coordination at its forty second session on the in depth evaluation of legal affairs

On a periodic basis OIOS reports to the UNHCR Oversight Committee with critical recommendations to which management's response or its rate of implementation is not satisfactory.

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Monitoring, Evaluation and Consulting Division

Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium.

The Committee for Programme and Coordination agreed with the main critical finding of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, that UN Habitat needed to sharpen its focus and narrow its scope of activities.

At its forty second session in 2002, the Committee for Programme and Coordination considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) on the in depth evaluation of legal affairs (E AC.51 2002 5).

In paragraph 313, the Board recommended that UNICEF review its internal audit procedures and work with the Audit Committee to ensure it significantly improves its report issuance lead time.

UNICEF considers the existing internal audit procedures for report issuance to be adequate and will ensure that monitoring of those procedures and reporting to the Audit Committee on report issuance is rigorous.

In its report on operations in Canada, the Office of Internal Oversight Services noted that UNHCR Canada had been processing and reconciling claims of Palestinian refugees on behalf of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC).

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Internal audit

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