A United Nations oversight panel finds the World Food Program policy on opening internal audits to nations that foot the agency’s bill “quite restrictive.”
The policy prescribes WFP to only reveal audits “in response to precise questions about the ones involved,” Fox News notes. Audits will also only be disclosed to countries that sign a confidentiality pledge. They will not get copies of audits nor will they be allowed to copy or take notes during the “consultation,” Russell added.
The U.N. oversight body, called the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, “finds that the procedures lack clarity on the criteria that would be used for approval or denial of requests from Member States for access to internal audit reports,” the committee said in an assessment dated Oct. 29, which Fox News obtained.
“WFP may wish to explore ways to achieve greater transparency,” the committee adds, but did not specify measures.