Report of the Joint Inspection Unit on the Management Audit Review of Outsourcing in the United Nations and the United Nations Funds and Programmes

A/RES/58/277View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 119 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2003.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Auditing Contract Management Contracts Outsourcing Purchasing

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of recommendation 1 of the Joint Inspection Unit;1

Also takes note of recommendation 2 of the Unit and the related comments of the Secretary-General;2

Endorses recommendation 3 (a) of the Unit;

Takes note of recommendations 4 and 5 of the Unit, as well as the related comments of the Secretary-General2 and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;3

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that contractors whose staff are present on the United Nations premises on a regular basis are held accountable for conducting individual background checks at their own expense;

Endorses recommendations 7 to 9 of the Unit;

Requests the Secretary-General to share the experience of the Procurement Division of the Office of Central Support Services of the Secretariat in the use of its new formats for monitoring, evaluating and certifying supplier performance under outsourced contracts with the members of the Inter-Agency Procurement Working Group and to report thereon to the General Assembly in the context of his next report on outsourcing practices.

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