Comparative advantages of UN development cooperation: aspirations, evidence and further development
Development Cooperation (DC) is one of the principal fields of activity of the United Nations (UN), for which a differentiated institutional system is being put to use. The spectrum of activities encompasses the generation of norms, the supervision of compliance with international agreements, the development of new concepts such as the MDGs, the generation of knowledge to the important function of serving as a forum for international dialogue on DC. In particular the operational activities for development in pursuit of an international development agenda are the “principal pillar” of UN development cooperation. Their reform are the object of research within the UN-project at DIE.
Project Lead:
Stephan Klingebiel
Project Team:
Timo Casjen Mahn Jones
Silke Weinlich
Financing:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Time frame:
2011 - 2012
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completed
Project description
The institutional complexity and heterogeneity of the UN development system (UN-DS) generate significant requirements in terms of coherence and operational and governance capacities which for long have been subject to reforms. Reform efforts have been focussed in particular on improving the coordination of operational activities towards development at the country level. The prospects for implementation of activities in these areas are generally seen to be more promising than more comprehensive reforms of the institutional landscape. The UN resident coordinators are one particular focal point for the assignment of functions as well as the object of reforms. Their internal – within the UN-DS – and external – with regards to the other development partner representatives – coordination function has to be seen as a clear comparative advantage of the UN-DS in comparison to other global actors.
Publications
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Die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit der Vereinten Nationen: Reformbedarf und aktuelle Reformansätze
Weinlich, Silke (2012)
Rainer Öhlschläger / Hartmut Sangmeister (Hrsg.), Neue Formen und Instrumente der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verl.-Ges.,157-170 -
Back to the future: the new global partnership for effective development cooperation should be part of the UN
Mahn, Timo Casjen / Silke Weinlich (2012)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The Current Column of 21 May 2012) -
New challenges, new partners, a new UN development system?
Mahn, Timo Casjen (2012)
Wilton Park Conference Report (WP1183) -
Finanzierung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit der Vereinten Nationen: steigende Beiträge, aber weniger Multilateralismus
Mahn, Timo Casjen (2012)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 8/2012 -
Climate change before the UN Security Council: head in the sand?
Weinlich, Silke (2011)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The current column of 25 July 2011) -
Book review: "The neverending story: reforming the United Nations"
Weinlich, Silke (2011)
in: Journal of International Organization Studies 2 (1), 83-85 -
Reforming development cooperation at the United Nations: an analysis of policy position and actions of key states on reform options
Weinlich, Silke (2011)
Studies 59 -
Die Reform der UN-Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: eine neue multilaterale Reformkoalition ist notwendig
Weinlich, Silke (2011)
Analysen und Stellungnahmen 6/2011 -
Reform of the UN development system: new multilateralist reform coalition needed
Weinlich, Silke (2011)
Briefing Paper 1/2011 -
Busan and the United Nations: is it time to strengthen the ties?
Muhlen-Schulte, Arthur / Silke Weinlich (2011)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The current column of 21 November 2011) -
Millenniums-Entwicklungsziele: Plenartagung auf hoher Ebene der Generalversammlung 2010
Loewe, Markus / Silke Weinlich (2011)
in: Vereinte Nationen 59 (1), 29-31 -
Entwicklungsprogramm der Vereinten Nationen
Leininger, Julia / Silke Weinlich (2011)
in: Katja Freistein / Julia Leininger, Handbuch internationale Organisationen: theoretische Grundlagen und Akteure, München: Oldenbourg, 233-240 -
Buchbesprechung: "Chronik der Reform der Vereinten Nationen fortgesetzt"
Weinlich, Silke (2011)
in: Vereinte Nationen 59 (4), 184-185 -
The United Nations MDG +10 Summit: development consensus renewed, implementation nowhere in sight
Weinlich, Silke (2010)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The current column of 20 September 2010) -
Change is possible after all: the reform of the United Nations
Weinlich, Silke (2010)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The current column of 26 July 2010) -
The United Nations: beneficiary or collateral damage of the global economic and financial crisis?
Weinlich, Silke (2009)
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (The current column of 25 May 2009)