Joint Inspection Unit

A/RES/79/281View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 146 Joint Inspection Unit, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

34 versions · 1973–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/255

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/255	Joint Inspection Unit	839	64%Compare
2025	A/RES/79/281	Joint Inspection Unit	1,110	77%Compare
2024	A/RES/78/276	Joint Inspection Unit	1,047	59%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/279	Joint Inspection Unit	1,175	45%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/261	Joint Inspection Unit	1,047	67%Compare

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 27	Jointly financed activities	2

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 27	Jointly financed activities	2	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Internal Oversight Programme Evaluation

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

I.Report of the Joint Inspection Unit

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit for 2024 and programme of work for 2025;

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Unit for 2024;

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;

Notes with appreciation the continued efforts of the Unit to ensure efficient and effective mandate delivery, and encourages the Unit to continue its efforts towards enhancing accountability, oversight and governance of the United Nations;

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;

Also 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;

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;

Underscores the unique role of the Unit as an external and independent system-wide inspection, evaluation and investigation body, and stresses the important contribution that its recommendations make towards improving the efficient and effective performance of the United Nations system;

Reaffirms the independence of the Unit as set out in article 7 of its statute and stresses that budget estimates are to be prepared in a transparent and consistent manner for submission to the General Assembly in accordance with article 20 of the statute of the Unit;

Encourages the Unit to continue to identify projects which support a more effective United Nations that is capable of providing relevant single and system-wide solutions to current and future challenges;

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;

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;

Recalls paragraph 12 of its resolution 78/276, and invites the legislative bodies of participating organizations to effectively and substantially use the reports of the Unit, and to give unselective and due consideration to its recommendations, in accordance with article 11, paragraph 4, of the statute of the Unit, and regularly review the status of acceptance and implementation of the recommendations of the Unit in an effort to make best use of its recommendations;

Also recalls paragraph 13 of its resolution 78/276 and notes with concern the continuation of significantly different rates of acceptance and implementation of recommendations from the Unit by some participating United Nations system organizations, and therefore requests the Unit to continue to examine and improve the status quo without damaging the strength of recommendations;

Invites the executive heads of participating United Nations system organizations to implement accepted recommendations of the Unit in a timely manner;

Recalls paragraph 14 of its resolution 78/276 and invites participating organizations within the United Nations system to regularly review the status of acceptance and implementation of the recommendations of the Unit, especially those related to system-wide coordination and coherence, and invites participating organizations to report non-acceptance and non-implementation to the Unit;

Invites the Unit, in the course of its work, to continue its efforts for oversight and review of the efficiency and effectiveness of the United Nations;

Also invites the Unit to keep under review the long-term effectiveness of its implemented recommendations;

Encourages the Unit to continue its efforts to maximize the efficiency of limited resources in implementing its mandates, and to promote a culture of efficiency within the Unit;

II.Review of consideration of and action taken on the reports and recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit by United Nations system organizations

Having considered the note by the Secretary-General drawing attention to the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “Review of consideration of and action taken on the reports and recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit by United Nations system organizations”⁴ and the note by the Secretary-General transmitting his comments and those of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination thereon,⁵

⁴A/79/717.

⁵A/79/717/Add.1.

Takes note of the notes by the Secretary-General.

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I.Report of the Joint Inspection Unit

II.Review of consideration of and action taken on the reports and recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit by United Nations system organizations

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