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Global Governance 14 (2008), 1– 12 The John W. Holmes Lecture: Can the UN Be Reformed? Mark Malloch Brown N secretaries-general are infamous for their reform initiatives. Each new secretary-general has paraded plans to change the organization, U and follow-on initiatives have continuously cascaded down from his thirty-eighth-floor office, so that by the end of a term it seems a secretary- general must be reforming his own reforms. Kofi Annan was no exception. As a career UN manager, he profoundly believed in the need for reform. He introduced three major waves of measures: at the beginning of his term; when he was reelected for a second term; and then again in his last two years. I was particularly involved in that last round. In between, there was a steady trickle of lesser proposals. Across the road in the UN funds and programs, such as the UN Development Programme (UNDP) (where I was administrator for six years), or at the agencies in Geneva, Rome, and elsewhere, we, the different chiefs, also had reform-prolix. We were all at it. Probably, the UN is the rare organization where the internal talk seemed to be more about reform than sex. And staff and
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations – Brill
Published: Aug 12, 2008
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