UN Development Program
- Opinion by Max-Otto Baumann and Sebastian Haug
- • July 19, 2023
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Qu Dongyu was recently re-elected as director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, a specialized agency within the United Nations system. This news directs attention to a trend that has come under increasing scrutiny: China’s expanding engagement with the UN development…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS
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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 24, 2022
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This week, we focus on two crises in Africa: never-ending deadly setbacks of peacekeeping and the humanitarian needs on the continent. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Governance, Humanitarian Aid, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN
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- Dawn Clancy
- • June 22, 2022
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In the waning days of 2021, roughly two months before its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia agreed to contribute $14 million to the United Nations Development Program for climate-related projects in Europe and Central Asia to begin…
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Agencies
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • February 7, 2022
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The United Nations Development Program is still facing calls for accountability regarding the reported mismanagement of a project that aimed to mitigate climate change and was funded by a primary entity in the UN system. The project ran from…
- Categories: Climate Change, Development
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- Anna Bianca Roach
- • December 10, 2021
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UN human rights chief reiterates calls to end arbitrary detentions in Myanmar; seven peacekeepers killed in Mali; how is reform of the UN development system going? You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues facing the…
- Categories: This Week @UN
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- Opinion by Petteri Taalas, Achim Steiner and Inger Andersen
- • October 31, 2021
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Just days before the COP26 environment summit in Glasgow, Scotland, three of the United Nations’ lead agencies on climate and development each published alarming reports. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) produced evidence to show that greenhouse gases reached a…
- Categories: Climate Change, OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • October 28, 2021
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The Taliban’s dramatic takeover of Afghanistan in August sparked a predictable outpouring of angst and argument as to why it happened despite the massive, two-decade effort to prevent that result. Much of the commentary focused on the supposed failures…
- Categories: Asia, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Alan Doss
- • March 23, 2021
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GENEVA — One of the quiet pleasures of life is an early-morning cappuccino in the company of a good newspaper. That was before Covid-19 came along. The pandemic and resulting disruption of newspaper deliveries and shuttering of cafes has…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 31, 2020
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For nearly two years, an international group of 17 specialists on the finance frontier have been connecting digital technologies to new sources of money for the faltering Sustainable Development Goals. On Aug. 26, they unveiled an ambitious report on…
- Categories: Covid-19, Development, SDGs
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- Isabel Saint Malo
- • June 11, 2020
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PANAMA CITY, Panama — March 2 marked the beginning of the school year in Panama, when about a million students, a quarter of the population, headed for school. One week had passed when the first Covid-19 case was reported,…
- Categories: Covid-19, Latin America, SDGs
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- Opinion by Stephen Browne
- • January 6, 2020
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GENEVA — Like his predecessors, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has been pushing a reform program to help the organization adjust to the demands of contemporary global governance. Over nearly 75 years, the UN has innovated and adapted. At…
- Categories: Development, OPINIONS, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 6, 2018
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They were two young men studying at Cambridge University when they met in the wake of the bloody Partition of British India. One was a Kashmiri-born Muslim and the other a Hindu-born Bengali. But the two, Mahbub ul Haq…
- Categories: Asia, Development
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- Opinion by Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • March 27, 2017
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GENEVA — Whether or not he is a fan of Chinese characters, António Guterres will have to discover the double meaning of a crisis as opportunity. United Nations corridors on First Avenue in New York are buzzing with anxiety…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Gerrit Kurtz
- • August 12, 2015
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BERLIN — In December 2013, Jan Eliasson, the United Nations deputy secretary-general, went on a selling spree. In a series of briefings, he presented a new initiative to UN member states and to the rest of the world. In…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 15, 2014
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Ameerah Haq, who will serve as vice chair of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s newly appointed high-level panel reviewing United Nations peace operations, has strong views on putting torn countries back together. Haq, a UN official about to retire after nearly…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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