Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950518190212.25001B-100000@nywork2.undp.org> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 19:09:42 -0400 From: Mike Gurstein <mailto:mikeg@NYWORK2.UNDP.ORG> Subject: Re: Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
On Wed, 17 May 1995, VALERIE BRUCE wrote:> The UN leading the way? The UN is at present ineffective, burdened by
> its lack of funds, commitment, vision, and leadership. It is in a state
> of profound disarray. It can't possibly take on anything else. Besides
> which, it's a huge bureaucracy. They generally have difficulties getting
> anything done, even if they have vision, policies, direction, etc.
The UN is not a particularly large bureaucracy--the Secretariat has around 10,000 staff +/-, the UNDP less than 2000, the overall figure for all the UN family (excluding the World Bank) is less than 20,000--about the same number of employees as a North American/European city of maybe 1,000,000 people.
Regs
Mike Gurstein