Well done Mrs M (NB, this is our Mrs M, not the somewhat recently-chastened, once-saintly, \"Angie\") for telling the UN (and its myriad competing agencies) what's wrong with its bloated, wasteful, inefficient and ineffective self. \u00a0Building on the most recent UK\u00a0Multilateral Aid Review, she spoke of\u00a0a \u201ccrisis of faith\u201d in global bodies. \u00a0The UK is the sixth biggest contributor (out of 193 members), and provides ~4.5% of the UN budget. \u00a0The UK government has been critical of UN waste, and of the way that its different bodies operate independently of each other in various countries, and it wants UN teams to have one office in each country rather than operate independently as they do now in many places. \u00a0The aim is for UN agencies to be more integrated in order to work more effectively, to reduce inefficiencies, and to be much more transparency over expenditure.<\/p>\n
Last December DfID named UNESCO, as one of three UN organisations performing poorly \u2013 just as it did in 2010. \u00a0This should come as no surprise to anyone, and it beats me why so many people seem to think that the UN is so fantastic. \u00a0Whenever I'm tempted to do this (confusing purpose with effect), I just remember UNESCO's Mr M'Bow.<\/p>\n
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