Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit

A/RES/54/255View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 118 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1978–2005

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/59/267

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2005	A/RES/59/267	Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit	1,323	—
2003	A/RES/57/284[A]	Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit	—	—
2001	A/RES/55/230	Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit	245	18%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/255	Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit	503	15%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/199	Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit	201	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Administrative Reform Common Services Coordination Within UN System Cost Effectiveness Duty Stations Geneva (Switzerland)Internal Oversight Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “Review of the Administrative Committee on Coordination and its machinery”1 and the comments of the Secretary-General and the Administrative Committee on Coordination thereon contained in the note by the Secretary-General,2 with the exception of paragraph 42;

Endorses the recommendations of the Unit contained in its report entitled “The United Nations system common services at Geneva, part I, Overview of administrative cooperation and coordination”3 and the comments of the Secretary-General and the Administrative Committee on Coordination thereon;4

Stresses that pursuit of common services at Geneva should be one of many tools available to organizations and managers to obtain goods and services in the most efficient and effective manner;

Invites the Unit to continue to examine common services at other duty stations where the United Nations system offices and agencies are established, where feasible, and to report thereon to the General Assembly;

Stresses the importance for the Unit of using the most recent data available in its reports and, in this regard, calls upon the Secretary-General and the executive heads of the organizations of the United Nations system to provide timely data to the Unit;

Calls upon the Secretary-General, in coordination with the Unit, to ensure the timely issuance of the reports of the Unit and the related comments of the Secretary-General and the Administrative Committee on Coordination, in order to enable the General Assembly and all the governing bodies to take prompt action thereon;

Encourages the Secretary-General and the Administrative Committee on Coordination to take concrete steps to enhance common services, and invites legislative organs of other organizations to take similar action on the basis of the present resolution;

Requests the Unit to continue to improve its reports consistent with the requirements of its follow-up system approved by the General Assembly in resolution 54/16 of 29 October 1999, in particular the provisions of paragraph 4 of annex I to its annual report for the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997;⁷

⁷Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 34 (A/52/34).

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session on the measures taken in connection with paragraph 7 above.

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