STWR - Share The World's Resources

The global economy needs to be reformed to ensure that basic human needs are secured around the world, and the United Nations is currently the only international body through which such fundamental change can be facilitated.

· Rival agencies waste funds in duplicating projects
· Five-year plan proposed to end costly weaknesses

Delivering as One - Report of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel

This report presents an analysis of the effectiveness of the United Nations and outlines measures which can significantly reform the body to ensure that it can more readily realise its humanitarian mandate and exert greater control over the global economy. 

The United States, which pays 22 percent of the U.N.'s regular annual budget of 1.8 billion dollars, has arrogantly demanded a dominant voice in management and administration -- primarily because it is the biggest single financial contributor to the world body.

This South Centre Analytical Note provides a brief background of UN reform since the start of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s tenure in 1997. It outlines tensions that underscore the UN reform process, highlights current UN Reforms and offers developing country perspectives on each. It concludes with some recommendations regarding UN reform.

Disputes over whether the UN Security Council or the General Assembly should lead an internal investigation into peacekeeping operations reveals the distance between most powerful and least powerful nations. The turf war is part of a wider pattern of confrontation over numerous aspects of a major restructuring of the 60-year-old UN.

The first phase of the World Social Forum (WSF), which ended Monday in the Malian capital of Bamako, created a focus on "Afrocentric" issues that was missing in previous forums, said coordinator Mamadou Goita.