1st Edition
Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development
International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding.
This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and arguably the arena in which its ideational endeavors have made the biggest contribution to thinking and standards. Contributions focus on the role of the UNDS in sustainable social, economic, and environmental development, describing how the UNDS interacts with the other major functions of the UN system, and how it performs operationally in the context of the new 2030 development agenda focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The volume is divided into three sections:
- Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges;
- Resources, partnerships, and management; and
- Imagining the future of the UN in development.
Comprised of chapters by knowledgeable and authoritative UN experts, this book provides cutting-edge and up-to-date research on the strengths and weaknesses of the UNDS, with each chapter focusing on different operational and ideational aspects.
Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Introduction: Development, the Largest of Four UN Functions
Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
Part One: Realizing the SDGs, Opportunities and Challenges
- The UN Development System: Origins, Structure, Status
- The UN and Development: Objectives and Governance
- Emerging Powers, a Declining West, and Multilateralism
- Environment and Development in the UN
- Gender Equality and the United Nations
- Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Together at Last?
- Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Development Agenda
- Sustaining Peace: Changing Architecture and Priorities for UN Peacebuilding
- What Does "Leave No One Behind" Mean for Humanitarians?
- Migration and Development in the UN Global Compacts
- Funding the UN: Support or Constraint?
- Private Finance and Partnerships at the UN
- The "Third UN": Civil Society and the World Organization
- The UN and World Bank: Collaboration toward Stronger Global Governance?
- The WTO, the UN, and the Future of Global Development
- UN Accountability: From Frameworks to Evidence and Results
- Towards Better Knowledge Management in the UN
- Change in the UN Development System: Theory and Practice
- Looking to the UN’s Future
- Reforming the UN and Governing the Globe
- Reflections: Prospects for the UN Development System
Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
José Antonio Ocampo
Kishore Mahbubani
Maria Ivanova
Saraswathi Menon
Natalie Samarasinghe
Sigrid Gruener and Henrik Hammergren
Gert Rosenthal
Peter J. Hoffman
Nicholas R. Micinski
Part Two: Resources, Partnerships, and Management
Max-Otto Baumann and Silke Weinlich
Barbara Adams
Roberto Bissio
Richard Jolly
Rorden Wilkinson
Richard Golding
Steve Glovinski
Part Three: Imagining the Future of the UN in Development
John Hendra and Ingrid Fitzgerald
Carsten Staur
Georgios Kostakos
Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
Biography
Stephen Browne is Co-Director of the Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS); Senior Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute, Geneva; and former Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, Geneva.
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center; he is also Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea.