Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The problem of coordination and its setting
- Part II Some conclusions and suggestions
- 8 The context and the perspective
- 9 The role of the Economic and Social Council
- 10 Other aspects of UN–agency relationships
- 11 The functioning of the Administrative Committee on Coordination
- 12 Some structural and organizational issues
- 13 Expansion, adaptation, concentration and the responsibilities of the General Assembly
- Postscript
- 1 Abbreviations and glossary of institutions
- 2 Principal organs of the United Nations (General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and Secretariat) with main subsidiary organs directly concerned with economic and social cooperation and coordination (Status as of Spring 1976)
- 3 Chart of agencies related to the United Nations
- 4 Regional and branch offices of organizations of the United Nations System
- 5 Chart of the United Nations System
- 6 A new UN structure for global economic cooperation–list of conclusions and recommendations of the Group of Experts, prepared by the Secretariat
- Notes
- Index
12 - Some structural and organizational issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The problem of coordination and its setting
- Part II Some conclusions and suggestions
- 8 The context and the perspective
- 9 The role of the Economic and Social Council
- 10 Other aspects of UN–agency relationships
- 11 The functioning of the Administrative Committee on Coordination
- 12 Some structural and organizational issues
- 13 Expansion, adaptation, concentration and the responsibilities of the General Assembly
- Postscript
- 1 Abbreviations and glossary of institutions
- 2 Principal organs of the United Nations (General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and Secretariat) with main subsidiary organs directly concerned with economic and social cooperation and coordination (Status as of Spring 1976)
- 3 Chart of agencies related to the United Nations
- 4 Regional and branch offices of organizations of the United Nations System
- 5 Chart of the United Nations System
- 6 A new UN structure for global economic cooperation–list of conclusions and recommendations of the Group of Experts, prepared by the Secretariat
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Suggestions involving change in United Nations administrative and organizational arrangements must always be subject to the imponderable factor of the personalities, capacities and nationalities of the officials concerned. How many excellent paper schemes have had to be rejected because of this factor or have come to grief because of the appointment of the wrong person to administer them! The converse–poorly conceived schemes being made to work well by the right people–is less common, though not unknown. These considerations are relevant to Part II of this study as a whole, but more particularly to the suggestions made in the present chapter.
The position of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
One may begin by considering the position of UNDP, which continues to pose a number of questions of structure, relationship and organization within the United Nations System. Among such questions are those arising from the fundamental difficulties of making commitments to Governments and agencies for a period of years on the basis of fluctuating contributions pledged usually on an annual basis, of reconciling fully the objective of an integrated programme for the UN System with the autonomy and independent programmes of the participating agencies, those relating to the coordination of field activities financed from regular budgets and from voluntary contributions, and questions affecting UNDP's relations to the Council and the regional commissions. Such issues, and many others, have been analyzed, and solutions have been proposed, in the Capacity Study.
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- The United Nations SystemCoordinating its Economic and Social Work, pp. 133 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1978