Resources
INDEPENDENT WEB-SITES AND PUBLICATIONS
The Global Institutions Series, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson and published by Routledge provides comprehensive, accessible and informative guides to the history, structure and activities of key United Nations and other institutions. http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/series/Global_Institutions
The United Nations Intellectual History Project is a comprehensive attempt to compile the intellectual history of the world organization’s contributions to setting past, present, or future development agendas.
INTERNAL WEB-SITES AND REPORTS ON UN REFORM
Summary of reforms in the UN secretariat from 1997 to 2006 prepared by the Four Nations’ Initiative on governance and management of the UN (Chile, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand) (February 2007) http://www.the4ni.org/
Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (2004) http://www.un.org/secureworld/
Comprehensive Review of Governance and Oversight within the UN and its Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies, A/60/883/(2006 http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/441/99/PDF/N0644199.pdf?OpenElement
Report to the Secretary-General by the High-Level Panel on System-wide Coherence (2006) chaired by three serving Prime Ministers http://www.un.org/events/panel/
Report on the composition of the UN Secretariat (staffing) in 2008 http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N08/493/80/PDF/N0849380.pdf?OpenElement
UNDP has undertaken a number of ‘Assessments of Development Results at Country Level’ (more than 35 to date) http://www.undp.org/eo/country-evaluation.htm
UNDP Evaluation Office has undertaken a ‘Joint Evaluation of the Role and Contribution of the United Nations System in the Republic of South Africa’ http://www.fundsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/RSA_JointEvaluation.pdf