Part 1: The UN and Corporations
Tuesday I went to an excellent side event by the Global Policy Forum who pre-launched what I think is an excellent report called Fit for Purpose: Private funding and corporate influence in the United Nations. I wanted to share some of the findings with you and suggest that you do download the report for a fuller read. The UN Agencies and Programmes have had a mixed relationship with the corporate sector. This relationship has to some extent been forced on them by a true lack of funding for the UN over a long period of time. As the report points out this has had some very worrying impacts most recently the incident ove r UN Women and Uber shows that some Agencies and programmes do not have in place robust systems to decide who they should partner with. This does require a clearly policy across the UN. Giving x to the UN should not come without some strong control as the company will benefit from the association with UN name. A worry is without that robust ...