This fifth and final section of the IO Watch archive begins with a discussion of the tremendous interest in global governance, and a subsection exploring the UN's role therein.  A second subsection notes an emergence of an international "right to know" about nations' governmental actions and their comparative performance in many important areas, including a first attempt to even also hold international organizations accountable as a group.  A third subsection examines the often hypocritical posture of the UN in repeatedly urging important moral values on others, despite its own weak performance in upholding them.

A fourth subsection identifies a set of factors which suggest that the UN is increasingly alone in its extremely unaccountable status, and a fifth subsection outlines major problems which are pressing the UN toward greater accountability.  In a sixth and final substantive subsection, IO Watch presents a set of feasible measures which the UN could and should take, most of them already proposed or taken by other similar organizations, to reduce its own rule-of-law, performance, accountability, oversight, and pressing new shortcomings.

Finally, this archive presents IO Watch's bibliographic lists of the 50 top sources which it has discovered most useful in studying UN management accountability, and four subsidiary lists of the 50 top books, reports, articles, and materials on UN field operations from which they come. A similar, and concluding, subsection provides IO Watch's list of top related sources and websites that it has discovered.

As in other sections except programme performance, these subsections add brief IO Watch commentary and summaries to excerpt quotes, to piece together a "story line."  This connective material is required primarily because the UN's lack of serious attention to management accountability, transparency, corruption, and oversight issues requires connecting "needles" plucked from the UN information "haystack", and of course underscores the UN's entrenched aversion to proper legal, performance, accountability, and reporting processes. 

(For an explanation of the nature, rationale, and parameters of the quoted excerpts found throughout this archive, please see the subsection on archive Rationale, Development, and Parameters .)

The following abbreviations of major UN organizations and entities appear throughout this archive: 

ACABQ                   Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions  

ACC                      Advisory Committee on Coordination (heads of UN system agencies,                                recently retitled "Chief Executives Board for Coordination")

Board of Auditors     of the United Nations

CPC                       Committee for Programme & Coordination

DAM                     Department of Administration and Management (recently retitled the                              Department of Management, DM)

DPI                         Department of Public Information

DPKO                     Department of Peace-keeping Operations

ECOSOC                Economic and Social Council

Fifth Committee       (Administrative and Budgetary) of the General Assembly    

ICSC                        International Civil Service Commission  

JIU                           Joint Inspection Unit    

OIOS                       Office of Internal Oversight Services   

OHRM                     Office of Human Resources Management

UNCTAD                  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development   

            UNHCR                    Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

            UNEP                      United Nations Environment Programme

            UNFPA                    United Nations Population Fund

            UNICEF                   United Nations Children's Fund

            UNDP                      United Nations Development Programme

            UNRWA                      United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in
                                            the Near East

 WFP                        World Food Programme