UN Management Accountability Struggles

       -- Six-Decade Overview

       -- General Performance Assessments

       -- General Performance Assessments II 

-- Personnel

-- Structure and Operations

-- Leadership

-- Management Systems

-- Management Reform

-- Security Council

-- General Assembly and Related Bodies

-- Conferences and Negotiations

-- Peacekeeping

-- Peacekeeping II

-- Humanitarian

-- Nation-Building

-- Development Assistance

-- Human Rights

-- Women

-- Work with NGOs, Others

-- Anecdotes and Observations

-- Anecdotes and Observations II

-- The UN's Official Versions

UN Management Accountability Struggles

-- Corruption

-Corruption, general

-Corruption in  the UN

-Corruption in  the UN II

-- Accountability and Transparency

-Accountability and transparency,  general

-Accountability and transparency in the UN

-- Overall UN Reform Attempts

-- 1993 Management Accountability Attempt

-Dissatisfaction with management performance

-The 1993 management accountability resolution

-Non-implementation of the resolution

-- The UN Old Boys' Last Hurrah?

        -Late 2004: A "tipping point" for the UN?

        -2005: Real management culture reform, or just more UN "smoke and mirrors"?

        -The UN management accountability crisis in perspective

        -The UN management accountability crisis in perspective II

        -The fifth UN management reform attempt begins


-- UN Management System Reform Attempts

-"Human resources" management

-Internal controls

-Financial management   

-Management information systems

-Programme planning system (PPBE)

-Management reporting

-Management improvement and training

-- The Winner: "Free the Managers"

-- Unleashed  Managers

-- Unleashed  Managers II     

-- Disappearing  Whistle-blowers

-- Disappearing  Whistle-blowers II 

-- Staff Self-defense

Where is the Rule of Law?

-- Staff Rights?

-- Inept "Administration of Justice" System

-- Inept "Administration of Justice" System II

-- Behind  the Scenes

-- Major Ongoing Flaws                

-UN Code of Conduct

-Outmoded  internal justice  processes

-The most  serious loopholes

-- Related  UN  External  Initiatives

-- Piercing  the  Cloak  of  UN  Impunity

-- Refugee  Sexual  Abuses

-- Hope for the Future?

-Revision of the Code of Conduct

-External experts justice reform review

-Human rights ombudsman

Inadequate UN Oversight

-- OHR (Mis-)management

-- OHR (Mis-)management II

-Hodgepodge  of  rules

-Staff  performance  ratings

-Anti-harassment  efforts

-Career  development

-Support  services

-Mobility

-Monitoring

-- Internal Oversight: The OIOS

-Weak internal audit

-OIOS: The (half-hearted) first five years

-Poor succession, and the second five years

-Investigation efforts: Is the OIOS a fig leaf?

-Investigation efforts: Is the OIOS a fig leaf? II

-The third five years of the OIOS begin, in turmoil

-- External Oversight: The JIU

-A small, outdated unit in a big, fast-changing world

-Can a non-performing JIU go on forever?

-Can a non-performing JIU go on forever? II

-- Legislative and Other Oversight

-The General Assembly, plus …

-External "expert" bodies

-- Corporate Accountability Struggles

-- Other Multilateral Accountability Struggles

-- The UN and Global Governance

-- The International "Right to Know"

-- UN Moral Values and Rectitude - For Others

-- The UN, Alone and UNaccountable      

       -Past history

-An awesome bottleneck

-Lack of a strategy

-Resource ambiguities

-Public relations, not performance

-Reporting Evasiveness

-Management culture deterioration

-Corruption characteristics

-Is the UN another Enron?

-- Other Major Problems    
          

-Manager/investigators?

-Suppressed whistle-blowers

-Top corruption fighter corrupted

-UN Convention Against Corruption

-"The UNCTAD one"

-"Poor little UN"

-Global Compact hypocrisy

-Grand lack of focus

-Iraq oil-for-food programme

-Iraq oil-for-food programme II

-Baghdad headquarters bombing

-UN coordination of tsunami aid?

-UN coordination of tsunami aid? II

-Worst of all, never-ending genocides

-- Answers: A Starting Point

-A real UN fraud prevention programme

-External experts oversight review

-Expert personnel reviews

-A true global strategy

-General Assembly audit subcommittee

-Annual  results reporting to the General Assembly

-Annual status reporting to the General Assembly

-Geneva Group "due diligence" failure 

-- UN Management Accountability Bibliographic Lists

-- Top Related Sources and Websites