However, The Office of Internal Oversight Services noted that these discussions had not been documented.

B. Findings on departmental oversight in reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

OIOS, however, stands by its original conclusions.

33. In the light of the above conclusions, OIOS makes the following recommendations

OIOS has assessed the validity of those targets, and its comments are included in the table below.

The categories of information to be included in the annual reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) were set out in the following documents

Its Standing Committee discussed oversight matters regularly.

The UNHCR Oversight Committee was established in 1997 to assist the High Commissioner in overseeing the financial and operational management of the agency, to monitor the independence and effectiveness of the internal oversight functions and to ensure that oversight findings and recommendations were adequately addressed.

1. The report addresses a wide range of oversight activities and provides a comparative assessment of oversight mechanisms in use within the United Nations system.

OIOS addressed some of these issues in its report.

In the wake of the tsunami, as mentioned above, OIOS organized discussions on the likely investigative requirements in connection with tsunami relief.

Mr. Stevenson arrived in New York himself to supervise the work.

However, additional strengthening of United Nations oversight is currently under discussion in the General Assembly.

Preliminary Conclusion 8 seemed to suggest an arbitral role for monitoring bodies.

The report contained in A 60 291 Add.1 was a case in point and OIOS would be taking the matter up with management as a matter of urgency.

OIOS Office of Internal Oversight Services

Control authorities, which could be domestic or from importing countries, should monitor the implementation of those systems.

OIOS and the Registry are continuing discussions on this matter.

other documents and information requested by the financial supervision and regulation department.

other documents and information requested by the financial supervision and regulation department.

11. As to paragraph 12, which excluded monitoring bodies within regional contexts from the preliminary conclusions, the criterion should not be whether the character of the instrument was regional or universal, but what type of mandate a monitoring body had.

However, OIOS noted that INSTRAW had not systematically monitored activities following the virtual seminars.

XII. Observations and comments on previous recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

Feedback from the SAICM regional meetings focused on the criteria proposed for the SAICM oversight body, and this aspect is prominent in this revised IOMC paper.

Many of the issues raised in the report of OIOS have emerged as a result of comprehensive discussions between the Division and OIOS over that period, and the Division therefore agrees with most of the comments made in the present report.

15. The above data, in the view of OIOS, support the following conclusions

C. Efforts to strengthen the Office of Internal Oversight Services

OIOS will continue to monitor the implementation of this recommendation.

In the paper for the regional meetings, IOMC foreshadowed that PrepCom3 could be expected to consider how the related functions implementation, monitoring and oversight will be fulfilled for the completed SAICM.

Monitoring and oversight of SAICM

109. UNEP management disagreed with the OIOS findings.

The Director of the Internal Audit Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services introduced the report of that Office (A 60 288).

This debate lay at the root of a number of actions by both UNCC and OIOS.

XII. Observation and comments on previous recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

OIOS Office of Internal Oversight Services

OIOS Office of Internal Oversight Services

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

60. Procurement continues to be a high priority oversight area for OIOS.

Supervision.

The evaluation shall also include a review of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), as part of the United Nations oversight machinery.

When finalizing reports, OIOS provided programme managers with ample opportunity to comment on its findings and recommendations and incorporated any comments received into the report itself.

The Board followed up on the status of implementation of the recommendations made by the Office.

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

ZUS social supervision is exercised by supervisory boards.