This page was prepared for UN summit in September 2005
The reform of the UN was a major topic at the UN summit in September 2005. Here are some relevant ODI resources.
Opinions
Rethinking nation-building.
ODI Opinion by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, January 2006. PDF>
Closing the sovereignty gap: How to turn failed states into capable ones.
ODI Opinion by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart and Michael Carnahan, July 2005. PDF>
UN reform: An eight step programme for more effective collective action.
ODI Opinion by Simon Maxwell, September 2005. PDF>
UN reform: How?
ODI Opinion by Simon Maxwell, October 2004. PDF>
More aid? Yes - and use it to reshape aid architecture.
ODI Opinion by Simon Maxwell, Opinion 3, February 2003 (revised October 2004). PDF>
Briefing notes
The currency of humanitarian reform
HPG Briefing Note, November 2005. PDF>
The changing role of the UN in protracted crises
HPG Briefing Note , July 2004. PDF>
Working papers
Which way the future of aid? Southern civil society perspectives on current debates on reform to the internatiohnal aid system
Working Paper by Alina Rocha Menocal and Andrew Rogerson, January 2006. PDF>
Incentives for harmonisation and alignment in aid agencies
Working Paper by Paolo de Renzio with David Booth, Andrew Rogerson and Zaza Curran, June 2005. PDF>
The international aid system 2005-2010; Forces for and against change
Working Paper by Andrew Rogerson with Adrian Hewitt and David Waldenberg, March 2004. PDF>
Governance reform of the Bretton Woods Institutions and the UN development system
Dialogue on Globalization Occasional Paper No. 18 by Simon Maxwell (ODI) with M. Messner, F. Nuscheler, J. Siegle, May 2005, Washington: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. PDF>
Blogs
Diplomats and NGOs to blame for UN Summit failure - Send them all to boot camp
Blog by Simon Maxwell, September 2004. Blog >
Failure to establish a human rights council is a cop-out by UN member states
Blog by Laure-Hélène Piron, September 2005. Blog >
UN Summit: Getting the structures right and securing effective collective action
Blog by Simon Maxwell, September 2005. Blog >
Meetings
UN reform: Working for children
(an ODI meeting), March 2005. More >
UN Reform: Why? what? how?
(8-part meeting series), April-June 2004. More >
