United Nations System: Coordinating its Economic and Social Work
Cambridge University Press, 10/13/2008
EAN 9780521072984, ISBN10: 0521072980
Paperback, 272 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
This book is about a problem that had moved to the centre of international concern when it was first published in 1978 - how the UN System was to cope with the overwhelming volume of world wide economic and social tasks that had been placed upon it. The UN System comprises, in addition to the UN Organization itself, the Specialized Agencies like FAO, WHO and the World Bank, the regional commissions, the innumerable semi-independent programmes like the UN Development Programme, UNCTAD and the UN Environment Programme. There was a growing concern among governments and the intelligent public of developing and developed countries alike that the UN System stood in urgent need of greater internal cohesion and important structural reforms.
Part I. The problem of coordination and its setting
1. Relationship problems inherent in the decentralized United Nations System
2. Developments that have affected inter-agency relationships and coordination
3. The content of coordination activities Administrative and budgetary coordination
4. Intergovernmental organs responsible for coordination The General Assembly
5. The Administrative Committee on Coordination
6. The Secretary-General and the secretariats of the United Nations and the agencies
7. Some current constraints on order and coordination in the system
Part II. Some conclusions and suggestions
8. The context and the perspective
9. The role of the Economic and Social Council Leadership and coordination
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.