The Office of Internal Oversight Services was established by the General Assembly in its resolution 48/218 B of 29 July 1994. The Assembly decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fiftieth session an item entitled "Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services".
At its fifty-fourth session, the General Assembly, under the item entitled "Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 48/218 B", requested the Secretary-General to transmit the reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services to the General Assembly for its consideration and action, in conformity with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the rules of procedure of the General Assembly (resolution 54/244).
At its fifty-eighth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight Services, in collaboration with the Joint Inspection Unit, with submitting to the General Assembly for consideration at its sixtieth session proposals on the strengthening and monitoring of programme performance and evaluation (resolution 58/269).
At its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of the relevant recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services regarding improvement of internal controls in management, accounting and reporting of assets of all United Nations field missions to establish reliable records and to report thereon to the General Assembly at the second part of its resumed sixtieth session; and requested the Secretary-General to codify appropriate procedures for the purchase and utilization of vehicles and other equipment by United Nations field missions to ensure compliance by all missions with the procedures and to report thereon to the General Assembly at the second part of its resumed sixtieth session (resolution 59/270).
At the same session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the actions taken by the legislative bodies of the regional commissions with regard to the recommendations of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on its audit of the regional commissions and requested the Secretary-General to ensure that the Office continue to provide internal oversight of the entire claims process of the United Nations Compensation Commission and to report regularly thereon in the context of the annual reports of the Office (resolution 59/271).
Also at the fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to ensure that annual reports and semi-annual reports submitted by the Office of Internal Oversight Services to the Assembly contain the titles and brief summaries of all reports of the Office issued during the year; decided that reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services would be submitted directly to the General Assembly as submitted by the Office and that the comments of the Secretary-General may be submitted in a separate report; requested the Secretary-General to establish a high-level follow-up mechanism in the Organization to effectively feed findings and recommendations of the Office, as well as relevant findings of the Joint Inspection Unit and the Board of Auditors, into the executive management processes; and requested the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on how to guarantee the full operational independence of the Office within the context of its resolution 48/218 B (resolution 59/272).
Also at its fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly decided to defer consideration of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the availability in local labour markets of the skills for which international recruitment for General Service staff takes place to its sixtieth session (resolution 59/266, Sect. XIII).
At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in March 2005, the General Assembly decided to defer to its sixtieth session consideration of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the review of the operations and management of United Nations libraries (decision 59/557).
At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in May 2005, the General Assembly decided to defer its consideration of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the global audit of field security management to its sixtieth session in the context of its consideration of a strengthened and unified security management system for the United Nations (resolution 59/296, Sect. XV).
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