E. Internal management and operations

Comment by the Administration. UNDP intends to employ the findings of the independent review being conducted of the internal controls in the Atlas system to implement the recommendation.

Comment by the Administration. An external service provider is conducting an independent review of the internal controls for Atlas.

Financial and internal controls management

Source Education Management Information Systems (MBEC)

The Jewish agency was responsible to the internal management of the camps.

Comment by the Administration. UNDP intends to employ the findings of the independent review being conducted of the internal controls in the Atlas system to implement the recommendation.

5. The internal control system on cash resources has been reviewed and action taken to strengthen internal controls.

5. The internal control system on cash resources has been reviewed and action taken to strengthen internal controls.

The Management Committee will be informed with regard to the internal measures taken in accordance with this policy.

A different system for recruiting high school graduates into the Civil Service was also introduced it was a quota system.

(iv) Development and implementation of an enterprise system to facilitate integrated documents management

The Administration appointed several external consultants to perform an assessment of the internal controls of the Procurement Service.

b. Electronic order management and trading system ( 220,000)

(d) Integration of the infrastructure financial management into the core ProFi system

In general, management had accepted those recommendations and OIOS would continue to monitor their implementation.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations drafted an agreement to serve as a framework for documenting the transfer of strategic deployment stocks to non peacekeeping organizations.

OIOS acknowledges the current efforts of the Department to update and improve its guidance system and believes that the correction of those shortcomings should be part of it.

This procurement system will be purchased and implemented within the year 2006 2007 and will be integrated with the financial management system.

Those include a review of internal rules, regulations and mandates and the strengthening of the oversight system.

The review of OIOS will be undertaken in parallel and in conjunction with the governance and oversight review.

A major problem for SME investors is the lack of information on investment opportunities and local conditions.

The changes to Atlas have been communicated through the UNOPS Intranet to all staff.

The internal justice system is powerless and lacks resources.

OIOS continues to apply a measurement system to rate the effectiveness of the application of key internal controls in audited operations.

Comment by the Administration. UNDP will employ the findings of the review by an independent consultant of the internal controls in the Atlas system to assess the risk associated with the practice of assigning a senior manager profile to multiple managers.

Comment by the Administration. UNFPA has drafted an internal audit charter for consideration by management and expects it to be finalized by 30 June 2005.

(e) Providing an open avenue of communication between the governing board, management and the functions of internal and external audit

Something had gone wrong with the system of economic management bequeathed by John Maynard Keynes.

Each management system was assigned its own set of criteria.

Comment by the Administration. The internal audit section continues to monitor the implementation of recommendations and the follow up action of the geographic divisions in regard to the implementation of internal audit recommendations.

The boarding school system, which provides free education and accommodation for ethnic minority students, is being expanded.

A handbook on municipal administration was finalized with the Ministry of the Interior in addition, MINUSTAH has published a record of applicable legislation for local administration and governance.

Fine tuning and consolidating New Public Management reforms and applying information and communication technologies to internal management and external service delivery processes are among the dominant concerns in well established public administration systems.

Comment by the Administration. UNU has solicited the advice of the Board of Auditors and the Office of Internal Oversight Services on this issue.

Comment by the Administration. The financial investigator is in place and the in house investigations initiated in 2004 have been completed.

Management should be based on vigorous internal oversight and inspection mechanisms.

It is an Islamic legal system that had been used long before the colonial administration.

Comment by the Administration. UNRWA is considering the introduction of an objectives based performance appraisal system.

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.

UNOPS has implemented an Atlas training module on its Intranet.

He stated that Atlas would help to deliver an improved internal control framework and increased accountability.

As a first step in the invigoration of the United Nations internal communications system, the Library has been assigned to coordinate the revamping of the United Nations Intranet, iSeek.

5. The Panel views internal audit as part of the Organization apos s system of internal controls and as an essential tool assisting the Secretary General in the discharge of his responsibility for managing the United Nations.

The system of results based management proposed by the Inspectors in Recommendation 10 above requires the development of a management information system that encompasses all aspects of RBM, including performance management and knowledge sharing.