Features
An Overview of U.N. Management Reform
by CURE

By Irene Martinetti

U.N. management reform has become one of the most contentious issues debated by the Member States. The main point of contention has risen out of the concern (especially by the G-77 and China) that giving increased independence to the U.N. Secretariat in basic financial, budgetary and post reallocations could result in the countries paying the largest share of the bills to exercise more leverage on the Secretariat and potentially the entire organization. At the adoption of the 2006-2007 budget, funds were only allocated for the first six months of 2006 (the so-called budget cap) and the remainder of the funds were to be approved only if enough progress was made on U.N. reform proposals.