Thursday, September 5, 2019

UN’s Independent Audit Advisory Committee pushes back UN Pension Board, 5 September 2019




The UN’s  Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IACC) isn’t playing along with the UN Pension Board’s attempt to discredit the UN internal auditors as a ploy to disregard and circumvent General Assembly directives.

UN Pension Board members and the UN retiree representative organization, FAFICS, were so incensed about the OIOS governance audit (A/73/341) called for by General Assembly resolution A/RES/73/274, that they not only roundly rejected its findings and recommendations in Rome in 2018, but also pushed to discredit the internal auditors (UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, OIOS) and report them to the UN’s Independent Audit Advisory Committee for alleged unprofessionalism -- “flawed and unprofessional” is the language contained in the Board’s report (page 72, para. 345).  

In a subsequent annex to the governance audit, OIOS roundly refuted the Board’s allegations. It's difficult to recall a UN document where the words "This statement is not true" appear once, let alone several times, as is the case with OIOS responses to the Board's comments on the governance audit. https://unpension.blogspot.com/2019/09/un-internal-auditors-oios-response-to.html

UN internal auditors (OIOS) response to the UN Pension Board, 5 September 2019