News: OIOS Evaluation(s) of UNHCR

The UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) recently completed an evaluation of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  The office's objective was to "determine, as systematically and objectively as possible, the relevance, effectiveness and impact of UNHCR in achieving its mandate with regard to protection, assistance and solutions in emergency and non-emergency contexts, with a focus on durable solutions to protracted refugee situations."

The Annex of the report includes a brief management response from UNHCR.

This appears to be the first such overall evaluation of UNHCR.  To date, the OIOS' examinations of UNHCR have taken the form of annual internal audits of programmes and operations, the findings of which are published as EXCOM documents for consideration during EXCOM plenary sessions (here is the most recent one).

Some of the individual audit reports themselves can be found on the OIOS web site, dating back to June 2013.  A list of those published in 2015 include (organized chronologically):

• Audit of the operations in Kenya for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Jan. 2015)
• Audit of the participation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation in Pakistan in the implementation of the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas programme (Jan. 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Burkina Faso for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Feb. 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Colombia for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Feb. 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Eritrea for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Feb. 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Kazakhstan for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Audit of the arrangements for supporting education programmes for refugees in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (April 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Mozambique for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (May 2015)
• Review of recurrent implementing partnership management issues in internal audit reports for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (June 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Chad for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (avail. July 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Jordan for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (avail. July 2015)
• Audit of the operations in Rwanda for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (avail. July 2015)

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