Institution Background
Founded in 1944, ICAO is a United Nations agency which helps 193 countries to cooperate together and share their skies to their mutual benefit. Its support and coordination has helped countries to diplomatically and technically realize a uniquely rapid and dependable network of global air mobility, connecting people, cultures, and businesses, and promoting sustainable growth and socio-economic prosperity wherever aircraft fly.
Internal Audit function
In accordance with its Charter, the mandate of the Office of Internal Oversight (OIO) is to assist the Secretary General in ensuring that ICAO is managed effectively, efficiently and economically and in conformity with the applicable regulations and rules, and to provide him/her with independent and objective assurance, advice, insight and foresight through performing internal audits, evaluations, and other oversight assignments.
OIO’s objectives include assessing:
a) The effectiveness, efficiency, relevance and economy of ICAO’s internal procedures, systems and processes as well as the use of resources and means of safeguarding assets;
b) The effectiveness of the Organization’s risk management processes;
c) Whether the system of internal controls is adequate and operates as intended;
d) Compliance with the applicable Financial Regulations and Rules, the ICAO Service Code and other Administrative Instructions; and
e) The relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of strategies, programmes and projects.