Written by: Dhama Nath Paudyal, UX-UNV Programme Office

I am a Nepali citizen and have involved as UNV Specialist in many countries of Africa and Asia. I strongly support your view on management reform.  In my eight plus years of UNV service, I have found the management of UN Agencies becoming more and more formal and running after paper works, reports etc. Implementation aspects of plans, programs and findings & recommendations evaluation reports are very poor. I agree on your view that this is not the time of cutting the activities of UN around the world but should be more practical and economic. Second thing I saw necessity of reform is the depolarization of decision making power. The EU should play a role independently from the US. There is a lot of duplication of work in various agencies. Agencies of similar nature should be unified. For example, WHO can do all health related works, WFP all food and hunger related works, UNICEF and education and cultural related works. Adding new agencies will help to create new employment but does not solve the world problems. There are so many thing to be done to make UN more effective.