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Brief 9: Undp: Reviving A Practical Human Development Organization, Craig N. Murphy, Stephen Browne
Brief 9: Undp: Reviving A Practical Human Development Organization, Craig N. Murphy, Stephen Browne
Governance and Sustainability Issue Brief Series
Constant reform has characterized the UN Development Programme (UNDP) throughout its existence, say the authors of two recent books on UNDP. Change bespeaks an organization ready to adapt but also fundamentally uncertain about its proper role. It teeters between two sets of tensions—as coordinator of and competitor within the UN development system, and as exerting priorities from the center while seeking to be flexible in its program countries. These tensions should be resolved, and enable UNDP to be the UN’s sustainable human development organization.
United Nations Development Programme, Jason Keeler
United Nations Development Programme, Jason Keeler
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The central goal of Development has and will be the promotion of human well-being. Given that human rights define and defend human well-being, a rights-based approach to development provides both the conceptual and practical framework for the realization of human rights through the development process (United Nations Development Programme: Regional Bureau for Asia & Pacific ).