Read this in full at Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/15/un-anti-poverty-agency-often-chases-cash-rather-than-long-term-results-study/?test=latestnews#ixzz2TNnPvE4Q
The $5.7 billion United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s
flagship anti-poverty agency, is poor at producing lasting results,
sets unrealistic or unfocused priorities and often seems more interested
in getting funding than in setting up programs that make the best
sense, according to an internal assessment that will be discussed at a
top-level meeting next month.
Moreover, in a sweeping examination of some $19.7 billion worth of
UNDP programs between 2008 and 2012, the report says that only in “just
about half” of the country-by-country efforts was the agency “likely to
have made, or make, a significant contribution to the intended outcome.”
Nor is the agency very good at judging where it is going wrong, the
report adds, meaning that “strengthening the efficiency of projects and
programs is a major challenge.”
The sobering evaluation of UNDP’s usefulness was carried out by
UNDP’s own Evaluation Office, whose director is appointed by UNDP’s top
official, Helen Clark. So far, only an executive summary of the
evaluation is available to members of UNDP’s 36-nation supervisory
Executive Board, which holds its semi-annual meeting in New York City
starting on June 3. According to a UNDP spokesman, a full version of the
report will be made public next week.
George Russell is editor-at-large of Fox News and can be found on Twitter @GeorgeRussell
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