United Nations Joint Inspection Group

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The Joint Inspection Unit ( English Joint Inspection Unit ) is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations based in Geneva in Switzerland .

During the United Nations' first major financial crisis in the 1960s, the United Nations General Assembly decided to set up an internal group of independent inspectors to evaluate the work and organizational structures within the UN. In 1968 the inspection group, now consisting of eleven members, began its work. It has extensive powers in its annual reports to provide the Secretary-General of the United Nations with detailed advice on how to regulate internal affairs more effectively.

The German Wolfgang Münch was a member of the committee until the end of 2005 .