nextFor two weeks, the interagency working group was trying to meet. We just couldn’t find two hours where everybody was available. What does it indicate? Tick one:
Not my business. Tell the people from so-and-so division.
I don’t care. I am on a permanent appointment.
I am busy saving people’s lives. No time for meetings.
I am having too many UN meetings that get into each other’s way.
What meeting? What reform?
I had enough. Take me to a Pacific island
UNICEF staff have been among the more serious and active in
the multiple UN taskforces and working groups. But UN reform still appears to be
the business of the designated focal points, in all agencies.
And are the levels of inter-agency energy and enthusiasm for reform work
reaching now an all-time low, only 4 months after the Green Tree Retreat, which
stressed the importance of effectively communicating the reform message? Should
we call the whole thing off?
(21 May 2004)
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