The Permanent Mission
of the United Republic of Tanzania to the United Nations in New York
would like to make a few clarifications regarding the stories in the
media on the appointment of Mr. Ludovick Utouh (pictured), Tanzania’s
Controller and Auditor General to the United Nations Board of Auditors.
First, the body which Mr. Utouh will join at the United Nations is
called The United Nations Board of Auditors (UNBOA), not Accounts Board
as has been reported in some news outlets.
Second, what the Fifth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
did on Friday was to unanimously agree to recommend to the General
Assembly that Tanzania should join the UNBOA to fill the position that
will fall vacant when South Africa completes its term on 30th June
2012. The Fifth Committee only recommends; the United Nations General
Assembly is the one with the mandate to make the final appointment.
This will be done before the end of 2011.
Third, this will
not be a full time job for Mr. Utouh. He will continue to serve in his
current position in the government. But he will assign two officers
from his office to work full time at the UNBOA office in New York. He
will be coming to New York only a few times a year
.
Fourth,
technically, the position is filled by the supreme national audit
office of the elected country; in this case it is the National Audit
Office of the United Republic of Tanzania (NAOT). So, the position at
the UNBOA is filled by whoever is heading the NAOT.
Finally, some
background material and why Tanzania was elected. The United Nations
Board of Auditors (UNBOA) was established in 1946 upon the approval of
the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The Board
consists of three heads of the Supreme Audit Institutions from the
Member States of the United Nations (UN). They are mandated to provide
independent, professional and quality audit services to the healthy and
sound development of the entire UN system.
Today, the UN is
experiencing a series of reform initiatives in management which have
profound and far-reaching influences: improving accountability and
oversight; establishing efficient and transparent governance mechanism;
prioritizing budgeting and results-based budget; reforming human
resources system; implementing the International Public Sector
Accounting Standards (IPSAS); restructuring the global procurement
framework; and so on.
Tanzania’s
election to UNBOA is a correct reflection of Mr. Utouh’s personal
qualities of competence, experience and integrity as well as Tanzania’s
reputation in the area of national auditing.
While the UN is
trying now to adopt IPSAS and other related reforms, Tanzania, through
the NAOT, and under the able leadership of Mr. Utouh, adopted IPSAS
four years ago and embarked on all the reforms that the UN is now
embarking on. As such, Tanzania’s experience will be helpful to the
United Nations and this partly explains why we won this election.
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