Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development

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 intothree 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 11of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367186852_oachapter11.pdf

Introduction: Development, the Largest of Four UN Functions Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss Part One: Realizing the SDGs, Opportunities and Challenges The UN Development System: Origins, Structure, Status Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss The UN and Development: Objectives and Governance José Antonio Ocampo Emerging Powers, a Declining West, and Multilateralism Kishore Mahbubani Environment and Development in the UN Maria Ivanova Gender Equality and the United Nations Saraswathi Menon Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Together at Last? Natalie Samarasinghe Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Development Agenda Sigrid Gruener and Henrik Hammergren Sustaining Peace: Changing Architecture and Priorities for UN Peacebuilding Gert Rosenthal What Does "Leave No One Behind" Mean for Humanitarians? Peter J. Hoffman Migration and Development in the UN Global Compacts Nicholas R. Micinski Part Two: Resources, Partnerships, and Management Funding the UN: Support or Constraint? Max-Otto Baumann and Silke Weinlich Private Finance and Partnerships at the UN Barbara Adams The "Third UN": Civil Society and the World Organization Roberto Bissio The UN and World Bank: Collaboration toward Stronger Global Governance? Richard Jolly The WTO, the UN, and the Future of Global Development Rorden Wilkinson UN Accountability: From Frameworks to Evidence and Results Richard Golding Towards Better Knowledge Management in the UN Steve Glovinski Part Three: Imagining the Future of the UN in Development Change in the UN Development System: Theory and Practice John Hendra and Ingrid Fitzgerald Looking to the UN’s Future Carsten Staur Reforming the UN and Governing the Globe Georgios Kostakos Reflections: Prospects for the UN Development System Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss

Stephen Browne is Co-Director of the Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS); Senior Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute, Geneva; and former Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, Geneva. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center; he is also Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea.