Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development

Stephen Browne is Co-Director of the Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS); Senior Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute, Geneva; and former Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, Geneva. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center; he is also Co-Chair, Cultural Heritage at Risk Project, J. Paul Getty Trust; Distinguished Fellow, Global Governance, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and Eminent Scholar, Kyung Hee University, Korea.

• Introduction: Development, the Largest of Four UN Functions Part One: Realizing the SDGs, Opportunities and Challenges 1 The UN Development System: Origins, Structure, Status 2 The UN and Development: Objectives and Governance 3 Emerging Powers, a Declining West, and Multilateralism 4 Environment and Development in the UN 5 Gender Equality and the United Nations 6 Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Together at Last? 7 Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Development Agenda 8 Sustaining Peace: Changing Architecture and Priorities for UN Peacebuilding 9 What Does "Leave No One Behind" Mean for Humanitarians? 10 Migration and Development in the UN Global Compacts Part Two: Resources, Partnerships, and Management 11 Funding the UN: Support or Constraint? 12 Private Finance and Partnerships at the UN 13 The "Third UN": Civil Society and the World Organization 14 The UN and World Bank: Collaboration toward Stronger Global Governance? 15 The WTO, the UN, and the Future of Global Development 16 UN Accountability: From Frameworks to Evidence and Results 17 Towards Better Knowledge Management in the UN Part Three: Imagining the Future of the UN in Development 18 Change in the UN Development System: Theory and Practice 19 Looking to the UN’s Future 20 Reforming the UN and Governing the Globe 21 Reflections: Prospects for the UN Development System