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Iraq Humanitarian Fund forensic timing, OIOSUnited Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services. 2020/005

OIOS 2020/005 reports that 2 of 35 suspected fraud cases under forensic audit were completed, in 382 and 586 days. This fixture keeps that timing off the pre-signature file. It is not a frozen desk record.

What happened

On 8 April 2020 OIOS published the audit of OCHA operations in Iraq, report 2020/005, assignment AN2019-590-03, including management of the Iraq Humanitarian Fund.

What the source found

The paragraphs that matter here are about time after a suspicion was referred, not about a scorecard or a reserve justification on a new award.

Checklist

Checklist: OCHA CBPFCountry-based pooled fund. Global Guidelines-shaped award desk v0

On file

Recorded as present in this packet.

  • Forensic audit backlog stated in the report

    2 of 35 suspected cases under forensic audit, 2015–2019, completed in 382 and 586 days. Both reported no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing.

Missing

Not established by this packet. This does not prove the evidence was absent from the original award file.

  • A forensic backlog is not pre-signature proof

Boundary

Trace-li cites OIOS. This card separates the official findings from the evidence recorded in its checklist. It does not say Trace-li prevents fraud, does not certify the Iraq Humanitarian Fund, and does not imply that OCHA is a customer or endorser. An audit is not a criminal verdict. “No evidence” on two completed forensic audits is not a conclusion about the other cases.

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Summary

OIOS 2020/005 reports that 2 of 35 suspected fraud cases under forensic audit were completed, in 382 and 586 days. This fixture keeps that timing off the pre-signature file. It is not a frozen desk record.

Fixture · awaiting founder freeze. Trace-li has not frozen this record. Hashes are not issued.

What the source says

On 8 April 2020 OIOS published the audit of OCHA operations in Iraq, report 2020/005, assignment AN2019-590-03, including management of the Iraq Humanitarian Fund. The period is 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2019. The forensic sample in paragraph 35 reaches back to cases from 2015.

What was missing

The paragraphs that matter here are about time after a suspicion was referred, not about a scorecard or a reserve justification on a new award. The CBPF pack does not treat a completed forensic audit as a pre-signature gate. This fixture records that non-equivalence as its own field, with no pack rule behind it yet.

Findings

  1. 1. Two forensic audits finished, out of thirty-five

    CBPF standard operating procedures give three options for reported fraud: an implementing-partner investigation, a forensic review by an independent audit firm, or an OIOS investigation. Only 2 of the 35 suspected fraudulent cases under forensic audit from 2015 to 2019 had been completed. Those two took 382 and 586 days from the partner notification date. Both reported no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing. That sentence covers the two completed files. It does not clear the other thirty-three.

    OIOS 2020/005 ¶33–35

  2. 2. No standard timeframe was attached to forensic audits

    Terms of reference for external audits expect them to be ideally completed in six months. OIOS found no timeframe attached to forensic audits. Recommendation 3 asked OCHA to review commissioning procedures and estimate standard timeframes. OCHA accepted. The recommendation remained open pending evidence that procedures had been updated. This card does not update that 2020 status.

    OIOS 2020/005 ¶35–36

What followed

Recommendation 3 remained open at the date of the report. OCHA said timelines were not entirely within its control. Open in 2020 is not a statement about 2026. This card does not carry the recommendation forward.

The award-assurance question

Before signature, which document is the eligibility and selection file? A forensic audit that finishes hundreds of days later is a different record.

Where Trace-li fits

Trace-li’s CBPF pack checks reserve pre-selection and a scorecard or alternative selection document before recommendation. This card’s pattern ticket says a forensic backlog is not those fields. The card is a fixture awaiting a founder freeze. Nothing here says Trace-li would have prevented a suspected case. The Iraq Humanitarian Fund is not a Trace-li client.

Readiness and disposition

Not issued

Not issued. This fixture has not been through a desk freeze, so readiness is left blank rather than shown as unknown, red, amber, or green.

No disposition. A founder-confirmed desk freeze has not been recorded.

Checklist scope finding slice. Not a full Grant Regulations judgment. Shown for shape. Not stamped in force. Schema case-card-export-v1.

Pattern tickets

Stable ids for later checklist and judgment changes. A stub is seeded here. It is not yet an accepted rule.

  • stub

    A forensic backlog is not pre-signature proof

    pt:oios-2020-005:forensic-backlog-not-presignature

    Finishing a forensic audit after payment is not the pre-signature eligibility or selection file. OIOS 2020/005 says only 2 of 35 suspected fraud cases under forensic audit from 2015 to 2019 were completed, in 382 and 586 days, and both reported no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing. That conclusion covers those two files. It does not clear the other cases, and it does not satisfy the CBPF pack’s reserve pre-selection or scorecard gates.

    Pack ocha-cbpf · no pack rule yet · assurance.forensic_is_not_presignature_proof

Primary sources

Public source file

Public OIOS PDF sha256, retrieved 24 September 2026. Not a freeze hash.

16022f54a0a71a9789619277b07c3ce065e7f97c65c495eeffc11c0426c42f4e

Redaction

Public

  • Report number, date, and the forensic counts and day counts OIOS printed
  • Recommendation 3 status as open at the date of the 2020 report
  • Pattern ticket id and the field key it points at

Withheld

  • Partner names — the cited paragraphs do not name them, and this card does not add any
  • Forensic file bytes
  • Any customer upload or live desk packet
  • Freeze hashes — no founder-confirmed freeze exists for this card

Hashes and registry fields

Snapshot hash
Not issued
Packs hash
Not issued
Hash method
Not issued
Frozen record id
Not assigned
Case id
case:oios-2020-005-iraq-forensic
Organization id
org:public-case-cards
Project id
project:oios-2020-005-iraq-forensic
Award id
oios-2020-005

Snapshot and packs hashes are omitted. They are produced only by freezeAtJudgment (sha256:sorted-json-v1). The sha256 on the primary source file identifies the retained public source file, not a freeze hash.

Pack ids

  • OCHA CBPF Global Guidelines-shaped award desk v0 · ocha-cbpf · 2026.1

Classification public-source. Reference OIOS-2020/005. Donor OCHA CBPF. Each value is present, missing, or negative. Verification on this fixture is unverified until a founder freeze.

  • audit.forensic_backlogPresent

    2 of 35 suspected cases under forensic audit, 2015–2019, completed in 382 and 586 days. Both reported no evidence of fraud or wrongdoing.

    OIOS 2020/005 ¶35 · unverified

    Field id field:oios-2020-005:backlog · entity evidence evidence:oios-2020-005:backlog · source page oios-2020-005:p35 · confidence 1 · source file 16022f54a0a71a9789619277b07c3ce065e7f97c65c495eeffc11c0426c42f4e

  • assurance.forensic_is_not_presignature_proofMissing

    The report measures forensic time after referral. It does not supply a pre-signature eligibility or selection file. Completion of those two audits is not that file.

    OIOS 2020/005 ¶33–36 · unverified

    Field id field:oios-2020-005:not-proof · entity evidence evidence:oios-2020-005:not-proof · source page oios-2020-005:p35 · confidence 1 · source file 16022f54a0a71a9789619277b07c3ce065e7f97c65c495eeffc11c0426c42f4e