The scope of the audit in this area includes the following:
• Supervisory structures, including advisory teams and statutory committees. • Identification of the country office’s priorities and expected results and clear
communication thereof to staff and the host country. • Staffing structure and its alignment to the needs of the programme. • Performance measurement, including establishment of standards and indicators to
which management and staff are held accountable. • Delegation of authorities and responsibilities to staff, including the provision of
necessary guidance, holding staff accountable, and assessing their performance. • Risk management: the office’s approach to external and internal risks to
achievement of its objectives. • Ethics, including encouragement of ethical behaviour, staff awareness of UNICEF’s
ethical policies and zero tolerance of fraud, and procedures for reporting and investigating violations of those policies.
(...) Satisfactory key controls Several controls were functioning well. There was an office structure that included advisory teams and statutory committees, and office priorities and results had been defined. (...) Specifically, the staff association executive committee will develop an implementation plan by March 2013, based on the one developed in 2011, during its office retreat. The plan will include the concerns raised by staff members.
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Score: 497102.83
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https://www.unicef.org/auditan...0Angola%20Country%20Office.pdf
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Whereas the office’s principal implementing partner had transferred approximately 65 per cent of the funds that it received to sub-partners, the office’s spot checks did not include procedures to verify the intended use of the funds by those sub-partners. (...) Ensure assurance activity reports include action plans for the office and the implementing partner that address the gaps noted.
iii. (...) Low-priority actions, if any, are agreed with the regional-office management but are not included in the final report.
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Score: 497089.8
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https://www.unicef.org/auditan...20Leone%20Country%20Office.pdf
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The office will take mitigation measures to address critical issues in this area, including a review of its fundraising strategy to ensure that it includes specific and realistic targets.
The office had not yet fully implemented the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT). (...) However, the office had created 13 more committees as additional governance tools, including a Gender Committee and a Caring-for-Us Team. (...) Implement the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process across its whole operation, including project offices, to identify and manage risks and opportunities of all offices.
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Score: 497087.9
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https://www.unicef.org/auditan...ds%20Countries%20Office%20.pdf
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Priorities were discussed in CMT and then included in the AMP. The office had defined the same priorities for management (seven priorities), programme (16) and operations (five) in both the 2014 and 2015 AMPs. (...) Ensure that all priorities included in the annual management plans (AMPs) are specific and measurable and are assigned to responsible staff in the office.
ii. (...) BSITF is required for all UNICEF staff (including consultants), regardless of level and whether they are serving at headquarters, regional or country offices.
Language:English
Score: 496924
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https://www.unicef.org/auditan...ountry-office-audit-report.pdf
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He regrets the decrease in the number of convictions of State agents and deplores the continuing impunity of the perpetrators of serious human rights violations, including police officers and soldiers responsible for disproportionate use of force during demonstrations and operations against armed groups.
(...) In Kinshasa, disproportionate use of force against demonstrators led to the extrajudicial execution of at least 48 people, including six women and two children, by police officers and soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
14. (...) The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office has continued to support initiatives in favour of the adoption of a national policy of prosecution for serious crimes, including by supporting the prioritization of certain cases by the judicial authorities.
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Score: 496855.9
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https://www.ohchr.org/sites/de...n36/Documents/A_HRC_36_34.docx
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With the support of the UN Risk Management Unit and in line with the Enterprise Risk Management policy, the office had developed the country office’s risk profile and started implementing actions including development of standard operating procedures to streamline business processes.
The office had established governance structures, including advisory committees such as the country management team, the joint consultative committee, the property survey board and the contracts review committee. (...) Further assessment commissioned by the office indicated possible serious misrepresentation by the partner that included reporting of some activities as completed as agreed when they were not.
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Score: 496697.46
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https://www.unicef.org/auditan...Somalia%20Country%20Office.pdf
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The applications of successful candidates will be released to the hiring or occupational group manager.
7.7 For position-specific job openings, up to and including the D-1 level, the hiring manager or occupational group manager shall transmit his/her proposal for one candidate or, preferably, a list of qualified, unranked candidates, including normally at least one female candidate, to the appropriate central review body through OHRM, the local human resources office or the Field Personnel Division of the Department of Field Support. (...) In making such submission, due regard shall be given to candidates with diverse experience, including career mobility. The submission to the Senior Review Group from the head of department/office shall be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Senior Review Group through the Secretary of that body and shall include a comprehensive evaluation of the shortlisted candidates justifying their qualifications and suitability for the position. The submission shall also include the personal history profile of the shortlisted candidates and statistics on staff at the D-1 and D-2 levels in the department/office/mission, including information on nationality and gender.
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Score: 496684.2
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https://www.un.org/womenwatch/...n_System_gender_highlights.pdf
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Novel bio-based materials include a range of intermediate materials (e.g. building blocks and polymers) that are used to produce a wide range of bio-based products, including bio-based plastics, bio lubricants and solvents.
(...) Examples of bio-based plastics include polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and polylactic acid (PLA), which is used for several purposes, including food packaging, cups, mulch films and tea bags, and can be biodegradable. (...) For more information and key terms please visit the glossary chapter of ‘Towards sustainable bioeconomy - Lessons learned from case studies (2019)’
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Score: 496620.5
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Novel bio-based materials include a range of intermediate materials (e.g. building blocks and polymers) that are used to produce a wide range of bio-based products, including bio-based plastics, bio lubricants and solvents.
(...) Examples of bio-based plastics include polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and polylactic acid (PLA), which is used for several purposes, including food packaging, cups, mulch films and tea bags, and can be biodegradable. (...) For more information and key terms please visit the glossary chapter of ‘Towards sustainable bioeconomy - Lessons learned from case studies (2019)’
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Score: 496620.5
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Ensuring the budgets are included in the office workplans, and that these workplans are systematically shared with the zone offices.
(...) The Table of Authority approved by the head of office includes manual accountabilities, responsibilities and financial limits.
(...) However, the office’s funding priorities (the under‐funded IRs/activities within each programme) and the action plan to achieve those priorities were not included.
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Score: 496604.05
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https://www.unicef.org/auditan...%20Chad%20Country%20Office.pdf
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