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The 'United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services', or 'OIOS', is a United Nations organ whose primary purpose is to perform world-wide audit, investigation, inspection, programme monitoring, evaluation and consulting services to the United Nations Secretariat and the rest of the United Nations System[1].
It's intended and mandated function is similar to many national government audit organisations, like the Government Accountability Office in the US. And like most of it's national counterparts it reports to the General Assembly rather than to the General Secretary's office.
The current head of UN OIOS, Under-Secretary-General Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services for a five-year term starting on 15 July 2005, succeeding Dileep Nair of Singapore.
The agency was established in 1994[2]. Its first leader was Under-Secretary-General Karl Paschke.
U.S. Representative Harold Rogers hoped that OIOS would be a "junkyard dog, not a household pet." In a speech given May 11, 1995, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright called the agency a "junkyard puppy."

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★ United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services

★ Annual reports of the OIOS

★ Other reports of the OIOS

★ OIOS press releases

References

★ Albright, Madeleine: The United States and the United Nations, May 11 1995.