The UN’s Development Function: Time for Renewal

Sanjay G. Reddy ()
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Sanjay G. Reddy: The New School for Social Research

Development, 2018, vol. 61, issue 1, 108-114

Abstract: Abstract The United Nations’ development function is vital to its purpose. Although the UN has many outstanding development achievements to its credit, its development-related organizations do not meet their full potential. They often do not work together, choose priorities that are well funded over those that have strategic potential, and fail to challenge or to shape development priorities and ways of thinking defined elsewhere. The UN should focus on activities to which its unique characteristics make it best suited and undertake changes that enable it better to act boldly, for example by acting as a convener of unruly but productive debates and by being a truthteller rather than a score keeper. The current process of reforming the governance of the UN’s development function holds promise, even in the present difficult political conditions, but is a mere beginning.

Keywords: Development; United Nations; UN Development System; ECOSOC dialogue; Independent team of advisors; Development cooperation; Aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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