Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • About the contributors
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction: development, the largest of four UN functions
  • Some crucial considerations
  • About this book
  • NOTES
  • Part I: Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges
  • Chapter 1: The UN development system: origins, structure, status
  • The first new organizations
  • Constant growth
  • The UN approach to "development"
  • Human development: an integrating framework
  • UN goals and global conferences
  • UN operations
  • The UN's development impact
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 2: The UN and development: objectives and governance
  • The objectives of international development cooperation
  • From the MDGs to the SDGs
  • The governance of global development cooperation
  • Conclusion: looking to the future
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 3: Emerging powers, a declining West, and multilateralism
  • How the West weakens multilateralism
  • Migration: why weaken multilateralism now?
  • Can the Global South, especially Asia, save multilateralism?
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 4: Environment and development in the UN
  • Global environmental conferences
  • Global environmental conventions: ozone and climate
  • Compliance and implementation: the role of the three UNs
  • The coherence challenge
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 5: Gender equality and the United Nations
  • UN history: the early years
  • World conferences on women: advances and backlash
  • Contributions by the UN system
  • Today: UN Women
  • Change but not transformation
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 6: Human rights and sustainable development: together at last?
  • Rights and development: stronger together
  • Human rights
  • Development
  • The era of goals
  • Conclusion: looking ahead
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 7: Sustaining peace and the 2030 development agenda
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 8: Sustaining peace: changing architecture and priorities for UN peacebuilding
  • Peacebuilding architecture
  • Implementation: an assessment
  • Half full or half empty?
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 9: What does ""leave no one behind"" mean for humanitarians?
  • Inspiration and idea
  • Impacts and influence
  • Technical and political
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Chapter 10: Migration and development in the UN global compacts
  • The migration-development nexus
  • The UN's history of migration and development
  • New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants
  • Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
  • Global Compact on Refugees
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • ADDITIONAL READING
  • Part II: Resources, partnerships, and management