Endividamento - Antonio Gaspar

My vision (contribute) of United Nations Reform.


Reforming the UN and its multiple Agencies, is to streamline processes of evaluation and decision; is to understand the needs of today's world and to adapt interventions; is knowing how to use the appropriate ways to unlock adverse situations, but above all, to find people who know what to do, how to do and when to do it.

It is to find people, preferably outside the comfort zone of diplomats and other agents of the bureaucracy's corridors, people who have corporate prestige, who have embraced and solved major challenges, with their professional experience in the business environment, to adapt these skills and turn them into real help to the UN.

Overcoming this moment of clear difficulty is not easy. We all know.
Without wanting to make any kind of criticism to those who run Institutions with these characteristics, what happens is that for the most part, the political condition ends up overlapping the economic / financial dimension, with which the resolution of the problems must be faced and this dimension, ends up muddling a line of action very focused on reversing a problem and finding a lasting solution.

I think very clearly that the strategic vision of those who are "outsiders" of the Institution, who have had a solid experience in the financial and economic field, who have proven their ability to approach difficult situations, can make all the difference, - "to do more, with less means", and also, to be able to obtain other means, to help in the accomplishment of objectives.

 Obviously, the Entrepreneurial approach is different from the Institutional approach, but what I am advocating is an "approximation" of business methods (management and optimization of resources) to the institution's perspective.

I know and imagine that most of the cadres who work at UN come from the institutions and from their political aspect, lacking the vision of the company, and how to calculate it, the difficulty of management is Herculean. Hence, think that to overcome short / medium term difficulties, only with the help of someone who has a great experience in the financial / economic business área.

UN pursues the achievement of objectives that should be reconcilable, with a far-reaching strategic vision and involving "civil society".
The opening of projects to the participation of other institutions of reference should be multiplied. Attracting private interest to UN objectives should be a priority. The generic reform of UN should be initiated in order to adapt to the new conditions that the world today configures.

All this, will be very difficult to carry out, by someone who has always lived in the Institutional sphere. You will have difficulty understanding. It will be much more difficult to rationalize the whole environment, to transform it. 

 The future is uncertain! Today more than in the past.

But if we do nothing, it will certainly be even more difficult than the present.
UN and it Agencies, must begin as soon as possible to prepare for the future. And to do so, you must first align the present; devise a strategic vision that puts you back where you should have always been.

The lack of funding for UN projects, particularly from the United States, could be captured again. But for this to happen, it is necessary to show a new vision, more appropriate to the present time, that is optimizing its resources, that can show results, without deviating one millimeter from its broad areas of action.

Show rationality in the application of your resources. Probably, cuts will have to be made in delegations, agencies, activities and participation. We must ask for greater participation and commitment of all.

I believe there will be waste that is urgent to eliminate.
Leverage and maximize skills has to be a priority.

Any financier wants to see results!

It does not want to see its money (public money) being spent on initiatives or structures that are set off from a reality, which has become increasingly small, and will continue to be so.
This adjustment requires anyone who knows how to do it. Not only for the survival of the Institution, but also for its prestige and who has its management in charge.