Short description:

This Handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and arguably the arena in which its ideational endeavors have made the biggest contribution to thinking and standards.

Long description:

International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN?s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding.

This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and arguably the arena in which its ideational endeavors have made the biggest contribution to thinking and standards. Contributions focus on the role of the UNDS in sustainable social, economic, and environmental development, describing how the UNDS interacts with the other major functions of the UN system, and how it performs operationally in the context of the new 2030 development agenda focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The volume is divided into three sections:

• Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges;

• Resources, partnerships, and management; and

• Imagining the future of the UN in development.

Comprised of chapters by knowledgeable and authoritative UN experts, this book provides cutting-edge and up-to-date research on the strengths and weaknesses of the UNDS, with each chapter focusing on different operational and ideational aspects.

Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Development, the Largest of Four UN Functions  Part One: Realizing the SDGs, Opportunities and Challenges  1 The UN Development System: Origins, Structure, Status  2 The UN and Development: Objectives and Governance  3 Emerging Powers, a Declining West, and Multilateralism  4 Environment and Development in the UN  5 Gender Equality and the United Nations  6 Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Together at Last?  7 Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Development Agenda  8 Sustaining Peace: Changing Architecture and Priorities for UN Peacebuilding  9 What Does "Leave No One Behind" Mean for Humanitarians?  10 Migration and Development in the UN Global Compacts  Part Two: Resources, Partnerships, and Management  11 Funding the UN: Support or Constraint?  12 Private Finance and Partnerships at the UN  13 The "Third UN": Civil Society and the World Organization  14 The UN and World Bank: Collaboration toward Stronger Global Governance?  15 The WTO, the UN, and the Future of Global Development  16 UN Accountability: From Frameworks to Evidence and Results  17 Towards Better Knowledge Management in the UN  Part Three: Imagining the Future of the UN in Development 18 Change in the UN Development System: Theory and Practice  19 Looking to the UN?s Future  20 Reforming the UN and Governing the Globe  21 Reflections: Prospects for the UN Development System