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UN Performance Problems UN Management Accountability Struggles Where is the Rule of Law? Inadequate UN Oversight Recent Developments
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AN OVERVIEW OF IO WATCH ARCHIVE QUOTES This website consists
primarily of an archive, plus a legal section. The archive, already a large one,
will expand considerably in the future. It presently contains more
than 1,600 pages of text in some 160 sections and subsections, with
some 2,500 quotations, over 1,000 bibliographic citations, and connective
analysis and commentary.
However, it really has only two intertwined
topics. First, the archive
discusses the seemingly endless attempts over six decades to install
management accountability in UN Secretariat operations. The first 40 years brought a flood
of more modest efforts (see Management Systems in this
Archive). In the last 20
years, a series of six major management reform efforts were undertaken
(1986, 1993-1994, 1997, 2002, mid-2005, and another beginning in
2006.) The UN Secretariat
has, if nothing else, certainly become very good at generating new
management reform policies when the General Assembly repeatedly demands
them. Second, however, the
Secretariat has proven unable to actually implement management
accountability systems -- that is, to establish compliance monitoring and
prompt response when problems arise; the rule of law; rewards and
sanctions; and related transparency and reporting. Only if, and when, these elements
are established and functioning properly will the many pious promises of
UN management reform actually achieve a management accountability system
for effective UN operations.
The Secretariat finally and bluntly admitted its failure in May
2005 (see quote excerpt on the home page). Because of the large size
of this archive, IO Watch presents here a chronological, and consecutively
numbered, sample of very abbreviated quote excerpts from about one-tenth
of the total archive quotes. These excerpts trace the long and
very reluctant 60-year journey of the UN Secretariat toward management
accountability. They also
introduce the major issues, problems, constraints, answers, and above all
great inertia involved in transforming the weak UN management culture. IO
Watch encourages visitors to read, or just skim through or sample this
list, to get a general introductory sense of these themes and their
interaction. Since IO Watch resources
are quite modest, the overall website will be updated only two or three
times per year. This overview list, however, will be regularly
updated to reflect significant new developments. Overview of IO Watch Archive Quotes
I covers the period
1943-1993 Overview of IO Watch Archive Quotes
II covers the period
1994-2004 Overview of IO Watch Archive Quotes
III covers the period
2005-June 2006
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