Routledge handbook on the UN and development / edited by Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumann, Max-Otto.

Contributor:

Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- editor.

Browne, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Economic assistance.

United Nations.

United Nations--Management.

Sustainable Development Goals (Project).

Economic development--International cooperation.

Economic development.

Sustainable development--International cooperation.

Sustainable development.

International organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor & Francis 2020

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter shows that while the UN development system (UNDS) has benefited from a strong increase in resources over recent years, it suffers from the reliance on a small number of contributing countries and a disproportionate earmarking of funds. While softer forms of such tied funding can be credited with fostering coherence, efficiency, and innovation in the UN’s country-level work, tightly earmarked project funding has substantial, and not yet fully recognized negative implications for the development effectiveness and multilateral functions of the UNDS. Efforts to contain the rise of earmarked funding (which is driven both by political interests of member states and the desire to financially grow UN organizations) and broaden the base of contributors, have so far been ineffective. The UN Funding Compact presents the first systemic answer that brings together member states and UN development organizations. It remains to be seen whether it can slow down harmful funding practices and equip the UNDS with the resources required so that it can act as a catalyst for implementing the 2030 Agenda.

Contents:

Introduction: Development, the largest of four UN functions / Stephen Browne And Thomas G. Weiss

The UN development system : origins, structure, status / Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss

The UN and development : objectives and governance / José Antonio Ocampo

Emerging powers, a declining west, and multilateralism / Kishore Mahbubani

Environment and development in the UN / Maria Ivanova

Gender equality and the United Nations / Saraswathi Menon

Human rights and sustainable development : together at last? / Natalie Samarasinghe

Sustaining peace and the 2030 development agenda / Sigrid Gruener and Henrik Hammergren

Sustaining peace : changing architecture and priorities for UN peacebuilding / Gert Rosenthal

What does "leave no one behind" mean for humanitarians? / Peter J. Hoffman

Migration and development in the UN global compacts / Nicholas R. Micinski

Funding the UN : support or constraint? / Max-Otto Baumann and Silke Weinlich

Private finance and partnerships at the UN / Barbara Adams

The "third UN" : civil society and the world organization / Roberto Bissio

The UN and World Bank : collaboration toward stronger global governance? / Richard Jolly

The WTO, the UN, and the future of global development / Rorden Wilkinson

UN accountability : from frameworks to evidence and results / Richard Golding

Towards better knowledge management in the UN / Steve Glovinski

Change in the UN development system : theory and practice / John Hendra and Ingrid Fitzgerald

Looking to the UN's future / Carsten Staur

Reforming the UN and governing the globe / Georgios Kostakos

Reflections : prospects for the UN development system / Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429588693

0429588690

9780429197680

0429197683

OCLC:

1154984814

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429197680