Monday, May 01, 2006
UN Reform: not necessarily a tangent
I am sorry if this blog seems to be a tangent, but an issue keeps coming to my attention and i feel i need to vent. Yesterday i was at an strategy session organized by ANPED and TWN for the Commission on Sustainable Development. Susan Brown from WWF presented (very eloquently!) on the issue of UN Reform and system-wide coherence assessments. I have superficially encouraged the idea of a reform as i am aware of the major issues with the UN System. As i start following the issues now i am realizing that the UN reform might be the most relevant issue of all. The potential changes on the humanitarian, environmental and development branches of the UN might change the course of the already inefficient programs of the UN. The outcomes relating to paragraph 168 of the 2005 World Summit Declaration dealing with environmental governance could affect the capacity that developing countries have to develop their infrastructure to comply with current multilateral environmental agreements. I know the UN needs reforms, but if we disappear the environmental, humanitarian and social branches, who is going to do the international work?
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