As
UNFPA Kills Off Governance Unit
Its Chief Said To Want PGA Chief
of Staff Job, ICP Asks of Timing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS,
June 7 – The United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) is
moving to get rid of its
Governance and Multilateral
Affairs unit. Executie
Director Natalia Kanem's
“vision statement” says it
will cease being a separate
business unit by the third
quarter of 2018, which starts
in 23 days. The unit's role in
recent CPD draft resolutions,
and interactions with missions
particularly from Africa, are
part of the reasoning, on
which we'll have more.
But for now,
chutes and ladders: sources
exclusively tell Inner City
Press that while some of the
staff are being sent back out
to the field, the director of
the unit Mr Kwabena
Osei-Danquah is looking to
stay in New York - perhaps,
the sources say, as chief of
staff to the incoming
President of the General
Assembly.
Inner City
Press on June 7 asked the
spokesman for the current PGA
Mirosla Lajcak what the
timeline for Lajcak's
successor staffing up will be.
The answer, it appears, is
that it is between Ecuador's
Mission and the UN
Secretariat. Transparency has
been promised,
but has often been lacking
from the UN Secretariat. We'll
see.
As to UNFPA, its
response to the sexual
harassment charges against
Diego Palacios in India, on
which UN Security trying to
undermine the investigation
has now been complained of to
the Indian government (Inner
City Press' story here)
raise further governance
questions - as does some
duplicity in the draft ECOSOC
humanitarian resolution
currently under silence
procedure until 3:30 pm on
June 8. Watch this site.
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