Development of Administrative Control System for United Nations Activities:The United Nations in a Changing World
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There is growing concern about the efficiency and effectiveness of United Nations activities. Compared to national bureaucracies, international secretariats are more difficult for decision-makers to supervise and control. In this context, the UN administrative control system assumes greater importance as a built-in management tool that can ensure efficient and effective functioning of the secretariat.This paper examines the development process of the administrative control system by independent parties, whose main components are auditing, inspection and evaluation.In this paper, auditing is defined as examination of the regularity of financial transactions, inspection means an assessment of the efficiency and economy of the administrative service, and evaluation is defined as analysis of the effectiveness of work by measuring accomplishments against the original objectives.From the UN's establishment in 1945, auditing has been the most basic administrative control tool. Inspection and evaluation were introduced as administrative management tools in the 1960s, when the UN faced a serious financial crisis as a result of peace-keeping operations in the Congo. The evaluation function was strengthened in the 1980s with the establishment of the internal evaluation system within the UN secretariat in response to a financial crisis that arose mainly when certain member states suspended payments of their assessed contributions.These developments were brought about by changes in the power balance between the secretariat and intergovernmental bodies as well as among the member states. These changes can be characterized as follows:First, the proliferation of programmes devoted to operational activities increased the workload of the secretariat and decreased the degree of supervision by intergovernmental bodies.Second, because of majority rule in programme planning and budget formulating process, major financial contributors, characterized as minority members in the General Assembly, tend to exert their influence directly on the policy executing process.Meanwhile, the politicization affecting UN staff recruitment and promotion has damaged morale and performance of the secretariat.While such circumstances require further reinforcement of controls on efficiency and effectiveness, the system at present is inadequately implemented. It is of urgent necessity for UN decision-makers to take measures which can strengthen and reactivate the existing third party control system, giving priority to the inspection and evaluation functions.
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