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By JUDITH MILLER

Published: January 10, 2005

Tarnished by its handling of the oil-for-food program in Iraq, the United Nations is taking measures to ensure public accountability of how money is spent, as it begins a multibillion-dollar program of tsunami relief.
In an interview on Sunday, Jan Egeland, the United Nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, said his office was working with international financial experts, including the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, to devise a public tracking system so that member states and the members of the public who contribute to the relief program can follow the progress of the money as it works its way to those in need, through the Internet.