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Reforming the United Nations
The Challenge of Working Together
Series: - Reforming the United Nations, Volume: 6
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What are the limits of UN system reform? Recent efforts in governance and institutional reform demonstrate that the hurdles are tremendous. The never-ending Security Council reform resulted in disappointment for hopeful governments. The system-wide coherence initiatives covering environment, gender, and âDelivering as Oneâ at country level provide a sobering picture. Inter-agency coordination on climate change, food security, and the global financial crisis did not result in joint programmes. Instead, new entities have diminished the role of the UN which operates on the OECD principles of âaid effectiveness.â Consolidation and merging of UN mandates and structures appear to be a precondition for coherent and efficient action: A conclusion which dominates this edition of the publication series on âReforming the United Nationsâ.
Joachim Müller, D.Phil. (1988) in Management Studies, Oxford University, is Director, Resource Management Department at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He has published with Brill following publications in the series Reforming the United Nations: Struggle for Legitimacy and Effectiveness, 2006; The Quiet Revolution, 2001; New Initiatives and Past Efforts, 1997.
"Like previous volumes, the book can be considered an extremely useful reference tool for researchers and practitioners who want to deal in-depth with UN reform processes. This is not so much because it provides easy access to important primary sources that are all available on the Internetâif you know where to lookâit is rather the combination of primary documents, helpful compilation of information on the UN System, and informed analysis that make the book valuable." - Silke Weinlich, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), in: Journal of International Organizations Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2011)
(i) academic libraries (academics in international politics, development politics and United Nations affairs); (ii) Permanent Missions (of member states) to the UN system, (iii) UN organisations (agencies, funds, programmes, institutes), (iv) ministries of foreign affairs, (v) non-governmental organisations and foundations interested in the work of the UN.