The Future of the United Nations Development System

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• Why FUNDS is needed…

  “The FUNDS Project is both interesting and, in my view, timely at this current juncture of the international development process…the rapid transformations that have taken place in many countries including India require a fresh look at the value that the UN Development System can provide to these countries. It is important that centres for research and excellence can, across the global South, engage with these issues…”
  Dr. Vijay Kelkar, Chairman, Finance Commission, India

  "If organized life on the planet is indeed seriously threatened…it is all the more surprising that UN members are not trying to upgrade the world organization to a level at which it could be a leading, even a decisive, influence in managing global problems. If such an effort involves sensitive and fundamental political questions, the stakes are now surely high enough for nations to take that risk."
  Sir Brian Urquhart, former UN Under Secretary General

  “There were 11 separate UN agencies in Vitenam in the mid 2000s, accounting for less than 2% of aid to the country. In 2005, there were 28 different UN agencies working on water; there were 90 global health funds.”
  Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute, UK

• “The FUNDS Project is ambitious and interesting and, because of its range and by involving country level analyses, could make an interesting and real contribution”.
  Sir Richard Jolly, Institute of Development Studies, UK

  "Our long-term vision is of a focused and effective UN, where the agencies plan, manage and deliver as one for the most vulnerable people. This will mean hard choices about the areas where the UN can add real value – and where it cannot".
  Building Our Common Future, UK Government White Paper on Development, July 2009

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