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\u3000According to AP<\/em> report quoted by the Japan Times<\/em> in its September 19, 207 edition, President Donald Trump used his United Nations debut on Monday to prod the international organization to cut its bloated bureaucracy and sharpen its ill-defined mission. But he pledged U.S. support for the world body he had excoriated as a candidate, and his criticisms were more restrained than in years past.<\/p>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center> \u3000The president urged the U.N. to focus \u201cmore on people and less on bureaucracy\u201d and to change \u201cbusiness as usual and not be beholden to ways of the past which were not working.\u201d He also suggested the U.S. was paying more than its fair share to keep the New York-based world body operational.<\/p>\n \u3000New York Times<\/em> reported on its September 19 edition that \u201cIt was a good day for Nikki Haley\u201d and Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the president\u2019s national security adviser, said Bruce Jones, a scholar at the Brookings Institution. \u201cThey pulled off an effective alignment between Trump\u2019s priorities \u2014 namely better burden sharing \u2014 and U.N. reform.\u201d<\/p>\n \u3000Encouraged by President Trump`s endorsement, SG Ant\u00f3nio Guterres asserted in his report issued on 27 September that it was essential to shift the management paradigm in the United Nations and indicated the principles that should guide current and future management reform efforts of the United Nations.<\/p>\n \u3000The following is the summary of the Report of the Secretary-General shown in UN General Assembly document A\/72\/492 dated 27 September 2017.<\/p>\n \u3000The present report on management reforms of the United Nations Secretariat is central to my reform agenda. It provides an indication of the principles that will guide current and future management reform efforts.<\/p>\n \u3000From consultations I have undertaken since assuming office, I have clearly heard that we are affected by slow, unresponsive service delivery; fragmentation in management structures; micro-management by the governing bodies; a trust deficit with Member States and with staff; inadequate resourcing of and ineffective implementation of mandates; and a lack of transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n \u3000I am suggesting a new management paradigm that will empower managers to determine how best to use their resources to support programme delivery and mandate implementation. This will also mean transferring greater responsibility to managers and holding them accountable for the programme and financial performance of their programmes. It will not be a blanket delegation, but based on a careful consideration of the capacities of managers to receive greater delegation of authority and their abilities to properly execute it.<\/p>\n \u3000I am also suggesting a transformation of the Organization, based on sound management principles, which will make the United Nations more nimble, effective, transparent, accountable, efficient, pragmatic and decentralized to better support its normative and operational activities and will implement my ambitious reform agenda.<\/p>\n \u3000I am making three main reform proposals in this regard. First, I am proposing measures to streamline and improve the planning and budgeting processes. Budgets should support better decision-making and better reflect the link between resource use and programme delivery. Second, I am delegating managerial authority to programme managers and demanding greater accountability from them for mandate delivery. Third, I am proposing changes to the management and support structures to better support delivery of programmes and provide managers with quality assurance and strategic policy guidance.<\/p>\n \u3000The overarching objectives are to decentralize by bringing decision-making closer to the point of delivery; trusting and empowering managers; ensuring greater accountability and transparency; reducing duplicative structures and overlapping mandates; increasing support for the field and reforming the planning and budgetary processes.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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