Reform for Result in the UN System: A Study of UNOPS - Softcover

Dijkzeul, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349422525 ISBN 13: 9781349422524

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the only UN organization that is self-financing through fees earned on project management/provision of services in all development and humanitarian fields. Following a disruptive merger process its future looked in doubt. Combining perspectives from the disciplines of international relations, business and public administration, this book describes and analyses the ensuing reform, its problems and successes, as well as its relevance to other UN organizations and New Public Management theory.

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About the Author

DENNIS DIJKZEUL is a corresponding member of the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr-UniversitSt, Bochum, Germany, and an independent consultant for the Praxis Group. He is author of The Management of Multilateral Organizations. In 1992 Dennis Dijkzeul worked as a trainee of the Africa Division at UNFPA Headquarters in New York. He also carried out a traineeship at the UNFPA field office in Windhoek, Namibia, in the spring of 1993. In 1997 he earned his PhD at the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. He has been working as a consultant for the UN Staff College/ILO International Training Centre in Turin, the European Union (Euro Transfrontalier), the Institute for Services to National Agricultural Research in The Hague, and the War-Torn Societies Project (UNRISD/PSIS), Geneva. During the preparation and writing of this book he carried out participant observation at UNOPS Geneva and New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349422525
• ISBN 13: 9781349422524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279