Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2014 and programme of work for 2015;Error: Reference source not found
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Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Unit for 2014;Error: Reference source not found
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Stresses the importance of the oversight functions of the Unit in identifying concrete managerial, administrative and programming questions within the participating organizations and providing the General Assembly and other legislative organs of participating organizations with practical and action-oriented recommendations to improve and strengthen the governance of the United Nations as a whole;
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Recognizes the need to continue to enhance the impact of the Unit on the management efficiency and transparency of the participating organizations within the United Nations system;
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Also recognizes that the effectiveness of the Unit system-wide is a shared responsibility of the Unit, the Member States and the secretariats of the participating organizations;
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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 to share 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 audit and oversight bodies;
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Also welcomes the continued reform efforts undertaken by the Unit to better serve the interests of the participating organizations and Member States, and encourages the Unit to continue its efforts, including on selection of the subjects for its programme of work;
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Further welcomes the initiative of the Unit of establishing a roster of potential topics for its programme of work for the biennium 2016–2017;
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Reiterates its request to the Unit to consider optimizing the number of projects in its programme of work through prioritization;
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Also reiterates its request to the Unit to issue its reports in all the official languages of the United Nations, 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;
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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;
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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;
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Reaffirms article 20 of the statute of the Unit,1 in which it is stipulated that the Unit shall be invited to be represented at meetings when its budget estimates are being discussed;
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Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General contained in paragraph 15 of its resolution 64/262 and paragraph 7 of its resolution 65/270, in view 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;
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Requeststhe heads of participating organizations to make full use of the web-based system of the Unit and to provide an in-depth analysis of how the recommendations of the Unit are being implemented;
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Welcomes the benefit and utility of the web-based system for tracking recommendations of the Unit, highlights the importance of maintaining the system, and encourages the Unit to develop indicators of achievement to measure how the system has improved the tracking of recommendations and to report thereon in its next report.
