Abstract
Within the conceptual framework of the "financial co-ordination", in the present article, we analyzes approach to the problem of program(s) and budget co-ordination within the UN system, we have proposed a new model for co-ordination which has the potential of elimination of negative effects of the present mechanism of co-ordination in the UN system. This model is based on the idea of introducing a budgetary control mechanism into the UN inter-agency system by providing the UN General Assembly with a legal power to approve the regular (administrative) budgets of UN-related agencies (by amending paragraph 3, article 17 of the UN Charter). This amendment induces greater de jure and de facto binding power in all decisions relating to the program(s) and budget co-ordination within the UN system.
Highlights
The problem of co-ordination of activities within the UN family of organizations has been a subject of increasing interest and numerous studies during the last six decades (Jackson, 1969; Sharp, 1966; Elmandrja, 1978; Bertrand, 1985)
Within the conceptual framework of the "financial co-ordination", in the present article, we analyzes approach to the problem of program(s) and budget co-ordination within the UN system, we have proposed a new model for co-ordination which has the potential of elimination of negative effects of the present mechanism of co-ordination in the UN system
This model is based on the idea of introducing a budgetary control mechanism into the UN inter-agency system by providing the UN General Assembly with a legal power to approve the regular budgets of UN-related agencies
Summary
The problem of co-ordination of activities within the UN family of organizations has been a subject of increasing interest and numerous studies during the last six decades (Jackson, 1969; Sharp, 1966; Elmandrja, 1978; Bertrand, 1985). Administrative and policy measures (e.g., through the appropriate organs of the UN) aiming at diminishing or reducing the effects of the program multiplication phenomenon can be theoretically characterized as "negative co-ordination", whose main feature is to limit the work of one or more organizations for purpose to provide needed efficacy This approach, does not address the problem in its broader context, namely harmonization of the cooperation and policies of UN-related international organizations for achieving optimal overall results by the system within the available resources. Its efficient implementation on the co-ordination of activities within the UN system of organizations implies, obviously, establishment of some sort of central control mechanism over the regular budgets of individual organizations (agencies) This delicate legal and political issue can be approached in different ways, with a varying degree of necessary changes in the existing administrative and functional structures of the system and apparently its (in the first place basic) legal documents.
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