Consultation on the Regional Elements of Re-positioning the UN development system to deliver on the 2030 Agenda – Ensuring a Better Future for All
The background papers are out for the UN secretariat to start to undertake consultations on the Secretary General’s Repositioning the UN development system to deliver on the 2030 Agenda – Ensuring a Better Future for All I want to do a couple of blogs on these. The first will be on the approach to the regional level in Realigning the Development Agenda. The second on the National Level. I have always been a fan of the UN Regional Economic Commissions (REC) as a mechanism to bring together countries at similar levels of development and to share experiences, build capacity, develop policy and in certain Commissions legally binding agreements relevant to their region. With certain OECD countries, there has been a tendency to underfund these activities. At times, the USA and the UK have in particular been critical of these regional commissions. This is a real opportunity to reclarify the role and responsibilities of the RECs. The instructions the Deputy Secretary General has...