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Wilton Park Conference on “The Future of the UN Development System”. 18-21 Nov. 2010

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

The Funds Project in partnership with the Wilton Park is organising  a conference on “The Future of the UN Development System”.

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The conference being held at the Wilton Park, UK from 18th to 21st November will address several policy issues, including:

Do the 30 agencies and organizations of the UN development system still give value for money? As development challenges evolve, and with the emergence of many alternatives to UN assistance, how should the system which grew up without a blueprint, change also? What is still unique about the UN and how relevant are the traditional UN development roles of norm-setting, global policy-making, research and analysis and technical assistance? Why has UN reform been so slow? Beyond the Millennium Development Goals (2015), what new agenda for the system?

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More details about the conference, including the conference flyer and the registration process, are available from: http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/resources/en/conference-pages/2010/22389828/wp1033

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Updated Report: Survey on the Future of the United Nations

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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.

Download the updated version of the report from here

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Preliminary Findings of the Survey

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

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

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Survey on the Future of the United Nations

Friday, January 15th, 2010

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

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FutureUN.org – The ‘FUNDS’ Project

Monday, December 7th, 2009

funds-logoView the project presentation

The UN development system comprises 30 agencies and organizations created over a period of more than 100 years, starting with the International Telecommunication Union in 1865. It has grown by accretion with no deliberate architecture. Not surprisingly, there is duplication within the system, but also some gaps which are not adequately filled.
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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:

  • To assess the capacity of the current UN development system agencies to address the evolving major development challenges and
  • To deliver a blueprint for 2020 and beyond outlining the nature and scope of ‘a (renewed) UN development system’.

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.

View the project presentation

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