How does the United Nations fund and limit corruption in its missions?

Question

so other than the dues that each nation should be paying and donations, are there any other ways missions (particularly peacekeeping ones) are funded? or how does the un ensure the money is used effectively?

thanks..^^

Answer 1

Don't come on Yahoo Answers looking for answers to your homework questions, go to the library and do the research yourself.

Answer 2

They have a strict policy that corruption is limited to the funding provided plus the GDP of the target area.

Answer 3

I know you probably won't be able to use these answers for MUN, but I totally agree with the answerer above bacco I. It couldn't have been said better. The saddest thing is that regarding the peacekeeping missions, the UN has all the mechanisms to prevent or at least limit corruption, but still they don't work. Like so many times, a noble idea has turned to a farce. The corps main motif is the pay and the people they're supposed to protect suffer and their lives are not changed for the better.

Answer 4

OMG GOD Help USA

Answer 5

This is the accessible text file for U.S. Government Accountability Office  (GAO) report number GAO-06-701T entitled 'United Nations: Internal Oversight and Procurement Controls and Processes Need Strengthening' which was released on April 27, 2006.

Why GAO Did This Study:

The United States has strongly advocated that the United Nations (UN) reform its management practices to mitigate various program and financial risks. The findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Oil for Food Program have renewed concerns about UN oversight, and the 2005 UN World Summit proposed actions to improve the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). Furthermore, over the past decade, as UN procurement more than tripled to $1.6 billion in response to expanding UN peacekeeping operations, experts have called on the UN to correct procurement process deficiencies.

We examined (1) whether UN funding arrangements for OIOS ensure independent oversight; (2) the consistency of OIOS’s practices with key auditing standards; and (3) the control environment and processes for procurement.

What GAO Found:

The UN is vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement due to a range of weaknesses in existing management and oversight practices. In particular, current funding arrangements adversely affect OIOS’s budgetary independence and compromise its ability to investigate high-risk areas. Also, weaknesses in the control environment and UN procurement processes leave UN funds vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse.

UN funding arrangements constrain OIOS’s ability to operate

independently as mandated by the General Assembly and required by international auditing standards OIOS has adopted. First, while OIOS is funded by a regular budget and 12 other revenue streams, UN financial rules severely limit OIOS’s ability to respond to changing circumstances and reallocate resources among revenue streams, locations, and operating divisions. Thus, OIOS cannot always direct resources to high-risk areas that may emerge after its budget is approved. Second, OIOS depends on the resources of the funds, programs, and other entities it audits. The managers of these programs can deny OIOS permission to perform work or not pay OIOS for services. UN entities could thus avoid OIOS audits or investigations, and high-risk areas can be and have been excluded from timely examination.

OIOS has begun to implement key measures for effective oversight, but some of its practices fall short of the applicable international auditing standards it has adopted. OIOS develops an annual work plan, but the risk management framework on which the work plans are based is not fully implemented. Moreover, OIOS annual reports do not assess risk and control issues facing the UN organization, or the consequences if these are not addressed. OIOS officials report the office does not have adequate resources, but they also lack a mechanism to determine appropriate staffing levels. Furthermore, OIOS has no mandatory training curriculum for staff.

UN funds are vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement because of weaknesses in the UN’s control environment for procurement, as well as in key procurement processes. The UN lacks an effective organizational structure for managing procurement, has not demonstrated a commitment to improving its procurement workforce, and has not adopted specific ethics guidance. While the UN Department of management is responsible for UN procurement, field procurement staff are supervised by the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which lacks the expertise and capacity to manage field procurement. Also, the UN has not established procurement training requirements or a career path, and has yet to adopt new ethics guidance for procurement staff, despite long-standing General Assembly mandates. In addition, the UN has not established an independent process to consider vendor protests despite a 1994 recommendation by a high-level panel to do so as soon as possible. Further, the UN does not consistently implement its process for helping to ensure it conducts business with qualified vendors.

Answer 6

The UN is an impotent, corrupt over bloated club. That is corrupt. (See Oil for Food Scandal & Peackeepers below)

UN "Peacekeepers" raping women and children! Sound Peaceful to you?

The US should cut all funding, pull out of the UN and send them packing out of New York.

Answer 7

UN funds are audited but when used in other countries, the accounting is very hard to make.

Answer 8

Similar to any other large organization the UN has internal auditing procedures.  The government of the US has a similar process to investigate corruption.

http://www.un.org/

http://www.un.org/english/

Issues on the UN Agenda

http://www.un.org/issues/

go to the UN Org site and there is an incredible amount of information about how the UM is run and the organizations that live under the UN umbrella.

I find the attacks on the UN by citizens & politicians mostly   ignorant attacks rarely have I heard intelligent analysis of the UN.  

The UN frequently gets blamed for things that are out of its control... UN Member countries are not required to accept the outcome of votes in the UN... Peacekeeping forces have to be asked to come to a location and then the funding & the troop level depends on the member countries.

If the USA decides to send its troops somewhere all it takes is a President's willingness to send them and the Congress be willing to fund the effort.

Answer 9

They fund these "peacekeeping" missions(in reality, they are brutal occupations) by stealing tax money from the nations who support this bunch of criminals. They promote corruption(not prevent) through their bogus humanitarian missions, where they take in huge amounts of money to put in their pockets, while the people they are supposed to help suffer. The UN is a criminal organization, which needs to be disbanded as soon as possible, with its leaders facing trial in their respective countries.

Answer 10

How does the UN limit corruption,they don't the UN is probably the most corrupt organization on the planet to-day. How are they funded, the USA contributes more money to the UN than any other nation so most of the money comes out of the pockets of the American people.  Now there is talk that the UN wants to be able to tax us and if that happens you can bet that the  people in the USA will be taxed the highest.