Report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2010 and Programme of Work for 2011

A/RES/65/270View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 135 Joint Inspection Unit, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2008–2011

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2011	A/RES/65/270	Report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2010 and programme of work for 2011	1,402	40%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/262	Report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2009 and programme of work for 2010	1,034	54%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/272	Report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2008 and programme of work for 2009	1,000	46%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/246	Report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2007 and programme of work for 2008	989	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Auditing Budget Contributions Coordination Within UN System Data Collection Financial Management Financing Focal Points Follow-Up Procedures Internal Oversight Professional Staff Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation Programme Management Project Monitoring Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

26 operative paragraphs

Recalls its resolutions 61/260, 62/246, 63/272 and 64/262;

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Affirms that oversight is a shared responsibility of Member States, the organizations and the internal and external oversight bodies;

Reiterates its request to the Unit, in line with its mandate, to continue to focus its work and reports on system-wide issues of interest and relevance to the participating organizations and the States Members of the United Nations and to provide advice on ways to ensure the avoidance of duplication and overlap and more efficient and effective use of resources in implementing the mandates of the Organization;

Stresses the need for the Unit to continuously update and improve its medium- and long-term strategy for 2010–2019, taking into account the dynamics and challenges of the environment in which it undertakes its activities;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General contained in paragraph 15 of its resolution 64/262, in the light of the ongoing development of the medium- and long-term strategy for 2010–2019, to reflect the appropriate resource requirements associated with the implementation of the relevant portions of the strategy, in the context of the proposed programme budgets, including those relevant to the biennium 2012–2013;

Invites the Unit to report to the General Assembly on the reform process, and the progress achieved therein, and to present new assessments on options for enhancing the effectiveness of its work, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly on any related implications;

Welcomes the efforts undertaken by the Unit to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency in its working methods, and encourages the Unit to further intensify its efforts in this regard by, inter alia, increasing the use of Junior Professional Officers to assist with the workload of the Unit;

Reiterates its request to the Unit to continue to focus its reports on important priority items, identifying concrete managerial, administrative and programming questions aimed at providing the General Assembly and other legislative organs of participating organizations with practical and action-oriented recommendations;

Also reiterates its request to the Unit to issue its reports well in advance of meetings of the legislative organs of participating organizations so that the reports can be thoroughly and effectively utilized in their deliberations;

Stresses the importance of optimizing the capacity of the Unit in order to allow it to complete its reports in a timely manner, in accordance with its programme of work, and requests the Unit, during its preparation of future annual programmes of work, to optimize the number of projects therein through prioritization, by taking into account the ongoing and foreseeable processes of the legislative organs of the participating organizations as well as the number of projects carried over from previous programmes of work;

Requests the Unit to improve its future programmes of work so that Member States can easily trace the progress of each project in future annual reports;

Reiterates its request to the executive heads of the participating organizations to fully comply with the statutory procedures for consideration of the reports of the Unit and, in particular, to submit their comments, including information on what they intend to do regarding the recommendations of the Unit, to distribute reports in time for their consideration by legislative organs and to provide information on the steps to be taken to implement those recommendations accepted by the legislative organs and the executive heads of participating organizations;

Notes the difficulties that the Unit encountered in 2010 in obtaining relevant information and data from the United Nations Secretariat for the preparation of the report mandated by the General Assembly, and reiterates its request to the Secretary-General and the other executive heads of the participating organizations to fully assist the Unit with the timely provision of all information requested by it pursuant to article 6.2 of the statute of the Unit and all relevant resolutions of the Assembly;

Reiterates its invitation to the legislative organs of the participating organizations to fully consider, discuss and take concrete action in a timely manner on the relevant recommendations issued by the Unit, including follow-up, as appropriate, taking into account the provisions of paragraph 4 of its resolution 50/233;

Requests the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chair of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to expedite the implementation of the present resolution, including through the expected provision of support to the Unit by the secretariats of the participating organizations in the preparation of its reports, notes and confidential letters, and through the consideration of and action on the recommendations of the Unit in the light of pertinent resolutions of the General Assembly, and to report to the Assembly on an annual basis on the results achieved;

Welcomes and urges further strengthening of the interaction between the Unit and focal points identified by the participating organizations regarding the work of the Unit, including discussion of the consideration of and action by the participating organizations on the recommendations of the Unit;

Welcomes the efforts made by the Unit to advance the development and implementation of the web-based follow-up system;

Notes the ongoing progress in the development of a web-based follow-up system to track the recommendations of the Unit, including the status of acceptance, implementation and impact;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into commitments in the amount of 71,300 United States dollars under the programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 for the development of the web-based follow-up system, and requests him to report on expenditures in the context of the second performance report;

Invites other participating organizations of the Unit to make every possible effort to contribute to the cost-sharing arrangement of the web-based follow-up system in 2011;

Invites the Unit to include in its annual report information on the status of the development and implementation of the web-based follow-up system;

Requests the Unit to make every effort to ensure that future funding requests are made in the context of the established regular budget cycle;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite all relevant oversight bodies to explore the possibility of utilizing the web-based follow-up system to enhance coordination, taking into account their different mandates and status;

Welcomes the coordination of the Unit with the Board of Auditors and the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the Secretariat, and encourages those bodies to continue sharing experiences, knowledge, best practices and lessons learned with other United Nations audit and oversight bodies, as well as with the Independent Audit Advisory Committee, with a view to avoiding overlap or duplication and achieving further synergy, cooperation, effectiveness and efficiency, without prejudice to the respective mandates of the oversight bodies.

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