United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP)

United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP)
Author: Stephen Browne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136658270

This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book: traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how a central UN funding mechanism and field network developed into a more comprehensive development agency evaluates the UNDP’s performance and results, both in its role as system coordinator and as a development organization in its own right considers the return of the UNDP to a more central role within the UN development system, in order to review the successive attempts at UN development system reform, the reasons for failure and the future possibilities for a more effective system with the UNDP at the centre. Offering a clear, comprehensive overview and analysis of the organization, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of development studies, international organizations and international relations.

Human Development Report 1994

Human Development Report 1994
Author: United Nations Development Programme
Publisher: Human Development Report
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1994
Genre: Community development
ISBN: 0195091701

Expounds a new concept of human security- one that focuses on the security of people in their homes, in their jobs, in their communities and in their environment.

Humanity Divided

Humanity Divided
Author:
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789211263671

This report revisits the theoretical concepts of inequalities including their measurements, analyzes their global trends, presents the policy makers' perception of inequalities in 15 countries and identifies various policy options in combating this major development challenge of our time. The report makes the basic point that in spite of the impressive progress humanity has made on many fronts over the decades, it still remains deeply divided. In that context, it is intended to help development actors, citizens, and policy makers contribute to global dialogues and initiate conversations in their own countries about the drivers and extent of inequalities, their impact, and the ways in which they can be curbed.

The United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme
Author: Craig N. Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2006-09-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139458981

The United Nations Development Programme is the central network co-ordinating the work of the United Nations in over 160 developing countries. This 2006 book provides the first authoritative and accessible history of the Programme and its predecessors. Based on the findings of hundreds of interviews and archives in more than two dozen countries, Craig Murphy traces the history of the UNDP's organizational structure and mission, its relationship to the multilateral financial institutions, and the development of its doctrines. He argues that the principles on which the UNDP was founded remain as relevant in a world divided by terrorism as they were in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, as are the fundamental problems that have plagued the Programme from its origin, including the opposition of traditionally isolationist forces in the industrialized world.

The UN and Development

The UN and Development
Author: Olav Stokke
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2009-07-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0253003326

The UN and Development provides the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present. With an explicit focus on the history of the ideas that have been generated, institutionalized, and implemented by UN organizations, this book examines changing trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, as they were called in the late 1940s, to development cooperation in the 21st century. Olav Stokke traces this fascinating story and demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.

Human Development Report 1999

Human Development Report 1999
Author: United Nations Development Programme
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 9780195215618

Published for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Human Development Report 1990

Human Development Report 1990
Author: United Nations Development Programme
Publisher: Human Development Report
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1990
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 019506481X

First in a series of annual reports, this volume is about people and about how development enlarges their choices--access to income, long life, knowledge, political freedom, personal security, community participation, and guaranteed human rights. It measures human development not by the yardstick of income alone, but by the human development index--reflecting life expectancy, literacy and command over resources to enjoy a decent standard of living. The report analyzes the record of human development for the last three decades and the experience of 14 countries in managing economic growth and human development. The volume concludes with human development indicators for more than 130 countries, both developing and developed. ISBN 0-19-306481-X (pbk.): $15.95.

Effectiveness and Reform of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Effectiveness and Reform of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Author: Stephan Klingebiel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1999
Genre: Economic assistance
ISBN: 9780714680323

The United Nations' development co-operation has often been criticized in the past; many shortcomings can indeed be identified. However, efforts to overcome the existing problems have been stepped up. A key role in the reform of the UN in this area is played by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This study is intended as a constructive contribution to the current debate on the reform of UN development co-operation. It analyses both the main weaknesses of UN development co-operation as a whole and the reforms that have so far been undertaken. On this basis it identifies the areas in which further efforts are needed if the UNDP is to become more effective.

Human Development Report 2000

Human Development Report 2000
Author: United Nations Development Programme
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 9780195216790

The eleventh edition in the series, the Human Development Report 2000: Human Development and Human Rights provides a thought provoking analysis of these two interrelated and intertwined issues. Human rights and human development are mutually reinforcing and culminate in enlarged human freedom. The Report traces the history of struggle for human rights as a common human experience and outlines the new frontier of the rights agenda for the 21st Century. HDR 2000 demonstrates the ways in which human rights enrich human development goals: adding moral force and ideas of claims, duties and obligations. Human development, in turn, brings a dynamic long-term perspective to human rights and adds more concrete analysis, quantification, and must consider the human rights impacts of policy choices. The Report analyses how human rights must be respected, protected and promoted in the development process. To that end, it addresses the accountability of governments to fulfill their duties, and provides a timely analysis of the duties and obligations of newer actors in the fields of human rights and human development such as corporations, NGOs, individuals, the international community and markets. Of particular importance is consideration of how the current global economic rules and institutions address human rights issues. The Report proposes strategies for promoting development that also protect and further human rights, with significant implications for a pro-human rights approach to development. HDR 2000 includes and updates the widely respected Human Development Indicators that compare the relative levels of human development in most countries of the world, and presents data tables on all aspects of human development.