Abstract
Summary Torunn Laugen, ‘Balancing Effectiveness and Legitimacy: UNICEF's Follow-up of the World Summit for Children’, Forum for Development Studies, 1996:1, pp. 63–86. This article focuses on two critical aspects of international organisations: effectiveness and legitimacy. The two aspects are to some extent interlinked and may be mutually reinforcing, but they could also be conflicting. Insomuch as there is a tension between these aspects, international organisations are walking a tight rope trying to balance them. This article examines how one of the UN development agencies—The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)—is seeking to balance these demands. Inherent conflicts between donors and recipients and between effectiveness and legitimacy mean that several trade-offs have to made. The first trade-off must be made between different types of goals—between global and local goals and between quantitative and qualitative goals. A second trade-off is between different strategies—between service delivery, c...
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