United Nations Financial Disclosure Programme Form

Instructions and help about United Nations Financial Disclosure Programme

the UN is made up of dozens of different agencies programs funds and commissions with headquarters in 14 different countries there is no centralized UN budget and no single body to coordinate every agency's agenda a handful of countries pays 80 percent of the budget the US Japan Germany the budget has to pass by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly which means countries that provide a tiny fraction a fraction of a percent of the budget have the same vote as the United States and Japan and Germany early on the United States which was 50% of the world's economic power did not want the UN dealing with finance and development so they created the Bretton Woods institutions the World Bank the IMF etc so there's been a tension since the end of World War Two in the beginning of the United Nations over who was going to do development and how was it going to be done funding is also a major challenge to the United Nations faces on a recurring basis some of the funding for instance for suppor