In February 2009, the FUNDS Project carried out a survey on the future of the United Nations development system. An updated version of the report of this survey is now available. The report includes a selection of comments shared by the respondents as a part of the survey.
A survey on the future of the United Nations was carried out in February 2010. Over 3,250 responses were received. A large majority of respondents (90%) were from developing countries, for whose interests the UN development system mainly works.
The preliminary findings from the survey are now available and can be dowloaded from here. You may email your comments to browne@futureun.org
This survey is now closed. The preliminary results of the survey will be made available shortly.
Please take our survey on the future of the United Nations
Merci de participer à notre enquête sur l’avenir de l’ONU
Por favor estudie nuestra investigación sobre el futuro de las Naciones Unidas
The project, starting in September 2009, has arisen from a recognition that the 30 agencies of the UN Development System have lived through several decades of a fast-changing global environment and will need to adapt to the new realities, including resurgent developing countries in Asia and Latin America, the threats and opportunities posed by globalisation, the retreat of statism and the recognition that human
activities everywhere are driven mainly by private interests.
The two main objectives of the FUNDS Project are:
The project will be linked to research institutions in New York and Geneva, the two main seats of the UN development system, as well as to centres of excellence in countries of the South. The intended methodology of the project is therefore to involve a very wide constituency of stakeholders and interested parties – including and especially the intended beneficiaries of the UN’s development efforts – in creating a new UN development system architecture for 2020 and beyond.
Forty years after the Jackson Report on the capacity of the UN Development System, this project thus looks beyond recent attempts at reform by projecting 10 years forward and looking outside, rather than within the system, for future direction.
A FUNDS Advisory Council comprising eminent persons from developed and developing countries is in formation.
