The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (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.
Its intended and mandated function is similar to many national government audit organisations, like the Government Accountability Office in the United States. And like most of its national counterparts it reports to the General Assembly rather than to the Secretary-General's office.
The current head of the OIOS, Under-Secretary-General Carman Lapointe-Young of Canada, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services for a five-year term starting on 14 September 2010, succeeding Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden.
The agency was established in 1994. Its first head was Under-Secretary-General Karl Paschke.
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