This year’s High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, marking the organization’s 80th anniversary, underscored a growing legitimacy crisis in global development. Deep cuts to official development assistance by wealthy countries, particularly the United States, have triggered a broader reckoning over the credibility of the aid system itself. What was once portrayed as partnership is […] The post Reclaiming Development: Africa’s Voice at the UN’s 80th Anniversary appeared first on I...| IPI Global Observatory
Eugene Chen argues that the UN80 revised budget will do more harm than good, risking deeper crisis.| IPI Global Observatory
The 80th anniversary of the United Nations should have been a celebration. Instead, it has become a reckoning.At the heart of that reckoning is the Mandate Implementation Review (MIR), a quietly released but deeply consequential report that diagnoses a long-festering problem inside the UN system: mandate overload. Since 1946, more than 40,000 resolutions have been […]| IPI Global Observatory