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Africa: The UN Faces a Different Kind of Crisis – a Slow Erosion of Trust, Legitimacy, & Effectiveness
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United Nations — In 1945, with cities in ruins and hope stretched thin, 50 nations gathered in San Francisco and reached for a better world. From the ashes of fascism, genocide, and world war, they forged a charter — a binding declaration that peace, justice, and human dignity must be protected through international cooperation.
The United Nations was born not from idealism, but necessity. It was designed to prevent collapse.
Now, nearly 80 years later, the UN faces a different kind of crisis — a slow erosion of trust, legitimacy, and effectiveness. And yet, the sense of urgency that birthed the UN is absent from the reforms meant to save it.
Last week, Secretary-General António Guterres launched the “UN80 Initiative” — a promise to streamline, restructure, and modernize the institution. The speech was technically sound. It named real problems: fragmentation, inefficiency, and fiscal strain.
But it did not do what this moment demands. Because reform without purpose is choreography, not change. And perhaps more dangerously, it may reinforce the very power asymmetries it claims to redress.
I watched the speech not just as a professional evaluator or former advisor, but as someone who has walked this system — from post-conflict zones to policy tables — for over three decades. I’ve seen the courage of communities and the inertia of agencies. And I know when reform is performance. UN80, as currently framed, risks becoming exactly that.
What Was Said
The Secretary-General laid out three workstreams:
He stated that this would be a system-wide process, not confined to the Secretariat alone, and emphasized the goal of building a more nimble, coordinated, and responsive UN. He described the UN80 Initiative as a response to geopolitical tensions, technological change, rising conflict, and shrinking resources. And he framed it as an effort to better serve both those who rely on the UN and the taxpayers who fund it.
These are real problems. The system is under stress. But while the administrative diagnosis is clear, the political and strategic roadmap remains vague.
Structure cannot substitute for strategy, and operational tweaks cannot resolve foundational incoherence. Reform must begin with clarity about what the UN is meant to be — and for whom it is accountable.
But What Was Not Said: Strategic Purpose
The most important question — reform for what? — remains unanswered.
What is the United Nations for in the 21st century? Is it a humanitarian responder? A normative engine? A technical platform? A peace broker? A rights defender?
The UN was never intended to be a donor-driven delivery contractor. It was designed to hold the line against war, inequality, and tyranny. But in recent decades, it has been slowly transformed into a service bureaucracy, dependent on earmarked funds, political favors, and private partnerships.
Until the UN reclaims its strategic purpose, structural reform will only mask decay.Who Holds the Power?
Power in the UN system has shifted — not democratically, but informally:
· The P5 still hold vetoes over global peace and security;
· The G7 and G20 shape global development and finance from outside ECOSOC;
· Vertical funds (GCF, GEF, CIFs) operate in parallel, accountable more to their boards than to global norms;
· Major donors define the agenda through earmarks;
· And key leadership posts are quietly traded by geopolitical bloc.
UN80 is silent on this. But no reform is meaningful without confronting where power actually lives.
The Mirage of Clustering
I remember sitting in a government office in a post-conflict country a few years ago, trying to explain why three different UN agencies had shown up to offer nearly identical support on disaster risk planning. The local official — exhausted, polite — leaned back and asked me, “Is the UN not one family? Why do we get five cousins and no parent?”
This is the illusion that clustering now risks reinforcing. By merging agencies under thematic umbrellas, UN80 suggests that organizational dysfunction can be resolved through coordination and efficiency. But those of us who’ve worked in the field know: coordination without clarity, and structure without trust, rarely delivers.
Clustering is not inherently bad. But it is not a shortcut to legitimacy. Efficiency is not the same as coherence, and coherence is not the same as ownership.
You cannot engineer trust through organigrams. You must earn it through transparency, participation, and shared accountability. If Member States and local actors are not part of shaping how functions are grouped — and more importantly, how they’re governed — then the result is not reform. It’s rearrangement.
Staff know this. Many are not resisting change — they are resisting erasure. Clustering threatens not just jobs, but identities and mandates. It risks eroding technical expertise in favor of managerial simplicity.
True reform would start from the bottom: from countries asking what they need from the UN, and from people asking who speaks for them. Clustering should be a result of that dialogue — not a substitute for it.
Without that grounding, we risk building silos with broader walls and narrower doors — bureaucratic bunkers, not bridges.
History has shown us — from Delivering as One to UNDAF harmonization — that coordination cannot substitute for voice. Clustering, done wrong, will not solve dysfunction. It will make it harder to see.
If political appointments remain untouched, and if integration is led by budget pressure rather than strategic logic, clustering is not innovation. It is consolidation of power — dressed in reformist language.
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And history warns us: Delivering as One, the QCPR, UNDAF harmonization — all promised coordination. Few delivered accountability. Coordination without ownership, and structure without strategy, will not renew the system. It will only harden its fragilities.
The Case of UN DESA
UN DESA is a symbol of the UN’s internal confusion. Created to support ECOSOC, it now functions as a quasi-programmatic actor — duplicating the work of UNDP, UNCTAD, and regional commissions, often without field engagement or operational accountability.
DESA illustrates what happens when reform avoids politics: roles blur, duplication grows, and trust erodes.
Country Ownership: The Loudest Silence
UN80 risks becoming an elite project shaped by donors and technocrats, while the vast majority of Member States — especially those still recovering from colonization, debt, and climate injustice — are left out of the room. That’s not multilateralism. That’s managed decline.
The Global South — those who rely most on UN coordination, human rights mechanisms, and technical neutrality — were absent from this vision.
Where was their voice in designing UN80? Where were SIDS, LDCs, post-conflict governments, or frontline communities? How can reform be legitimate if it is not co-created with those it will affect most?
The Funding Problem
Guterres acknowledged financial stress — but sidestepped the truth:
A real reform would propose a new multilateral funding compact — one that aligns with national priorities, funds coordination as a global public good, and dismantles dependency.
Do We Need Another War to Reform the UN?
We are not just facing crisis fatigue. We are watching the slow re-emergence of something more dangerous — the normalization of authoritarianism, xenophobia, and surveillance disguised as security.
Across regions, governments are shrinking civic space, dismissing international norms, and weaponizing fear. The ghosts of fascism are no longer metaphor. They are legislative proposals, detention centers, and unchecked algorithms.
The UN was created to prevent this. But unless it reclaims its moral clarity and structural legitimacy, it will become a bystander to its own irrelevance.
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The UN Charter was written during war. The system it birthed was flawed, but urgent, and anchored in a vision that human dignity must be defended beyond borders.
Now we face cascading crises: ecological collapse, democratic backsliding, digital authoritarianism, and the erosion of global norms. Yet reform is treated as an internal budget exercise.
Do we really need another catastrophe to confront the imbalance of voice, power, and purpose in this system?
We already know what needs to change. What we lack is political will, institutional humility, and moral imagination.Reform for What?
Not for balance sheets. Not for organizational charts.
Reform for justice. Reform for relevance. Reform for a world that will not wait.
Until we define the purpose, no amount of restructuring will restore credibility.
Final Thoughts
UN80, as currently framed, does not challenge the logic that broke the system. It risks becoming the next chapter in a long history of reforms that leave power untouched.
If we want more than managerialism — if we want meaning — we must:
The Charter was a promise. UN80 is a test.
Let us stop pretending reform is neutral. Let us confront the politics, follow the money, and name what we owe the future.
Let us be braver than the moment expects.
This critique is not a dismissal of the UN. It is an insistence that it live up to its founding promise. I write from within — not to tear it down, but to hold it to account.
Stephanie Hodge is an international evaluator and former UN advisor who has worked across 140 countries. She writes on governance, multilateral reform, and climate equity.
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Africa: Ahead of UN Summit, Countries Finalise Landmark 'Compromiso De Sevilla'
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June 20, 2025By
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UN Member States have reached agreement on the outcome document for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, to be formally adopted at an upcoming summit in Sevilla, Spain – though without the participation of the United States, which withdrew from the negotiations and announced it will not attend the conference.
On Tuesday, Member States at UN Headquarters endorsed the finalized outcome document, known as the Compromiso de Sevilla (the Seville Commitment), following months of intensive intergovernmental negotiations.
It is intended as the cornerstone of a renewed global framework for financing sustainable development, particularly amid a widening $4 trillion annual financing gap faced by developing countries.
A reinvigorated framework
Co-facilitators of the outcome document – Mexico, Nepal, Zambia and Norway – hailed the agreement as an ambitious and balanced compromise that reflects a broad base of support across the UN membership.
“This draft reflects the dedication, perseverance, and constructive engagement of the entire membership,” said Ambassador Alicia Buenrostro Massieu, Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico.
“Sevilla is not a new agenda. It is a strengthening of what already exists. It renews our commitment to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and aligns fragmented efforts under a single, reinvigorated framework,” she added.
Nepal’s Ambassador Lok Bahadur Thapa called the outcome a “historic opportunity” to confront urgent financing challenges.
“It recognizes the $4 trillion financing gap and launches an ambitious package of reforms and actions to close this gap with urgency,” he said, highlighting commitments to boost tax-to-GDP ratios and improve debt sustainability.
United States withdrawal
The agreement came despite sharp divisions on several contentious issues, culminating in the United States decision to exit the process entirely.
“Our commitment to international cooperation and long-term economic development remains steadfast,” said Jonathan Shrier, Acting US Representative to the Economic and Social Council.
“However, the United States regrets that the text before us today does not offer a path to consensus.”
Mr. Shrier voiced his country’s objection to proposals in the draft, which he said interfered with the governance of international financial institutions, introduced duplicative mechanisms, and failed to align with US priorities on trade, tax and innovation.
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He also opposed proposals calling for a tripling of multilateral development bank lending capacity and language on a UN framework convention on international tax cooperation.
Renewal of trust
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Li Junhua welcomed the adoption of the document, calling it a clear demonstration that “multilateralism works and delivers for all.”
He praised Member States for their flexibility and political will in finalizing the agreement, despite challenges.
“The FFD4 conference presents a rare opportunity to prove that multilateralism can deliver tangible results. A successful and strong outcome would help to rebuild trust and confidence in the multilateral system by forging a renewed financing framework,” Mr. Li said.
For the common good
The Sevilla conference, to be held from 30 June to 3 July will mark the fourth major UN conference on financing for development, following Monterrey (2002), Doha (2008) and Addis Ababa (2015).
It is expected to produce concrete commitments and guide international financial cooperation in the lead-up to and beyond the 2030 deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“We firmly believe that this outcome will respond to the major challenges we face today and deliver a real boost to sustainable development,” said Ambassador Thapa of Nepal.
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Africa: Transforming Rwanda's Workforce – a Skills-Led Approach for Jobs and Growth
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From Market Stalls to Media House: Rwanda’s Journey to Job Creation
A sunny June day in a Kigali market, a young girl named Joy sets out a small basket of oranges along the road. She had left school due to financial hardship, and now her days are a juggling act–helping her mother with chores, walking her younger male siblings to school, and selling whatever produce is in season to help make ends meet. Despite being smart and filled with ambition, she had become one of the 21% of young girls who are not in education, employment or training, confined to low-paying work and earning below the national poverty line.
Given her circumstances, education felt out of reach, but Joy still dreamed of learning skills so she could tell stories behind cameras and design visual content. With no formal training and few opportunities for young women in technical fields, it really was just a dream.
Today, Joy isn’t at the roadside stand. Within six months of completing a digital skills training, she’s started working at a vibrant media house in Kigali and still does–creating content for “Made in Rwanda” campaigns–and earning 9.6% more money as a result.
What changed? The Impact of the Priority Skills for Growth Program
Joy is one of nearly 24,000 youth who benefited from the World Bank’s Rwanda Priority Skills for Growth Program-for-Results (PSG). This initiative shifted Rwanda’s skills development model from a supply-driven approach to a market-driven model. With $270 million financing, the program expanded job-relevant training for out-of-school youth (focusing especially on young females); established private sector partnerships for on-the-job training; strengthened institutional capacity; and provided access to affordable student loans for long-term training to over 29,000 students.
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT: A song produced by trained students who obtained their certificates after 6 months of training in ICT & Digital skills under the PSG Program.
Aligning Training with Market Needs: Bridging the Skills Gap
Before the PSG Program, a majority of Rwanda’s youth and graduates struggled with employability, not finding jobs due to the mismatch of qualifications with labor market needs. The Skills Development Fund, introduced under the PSG Program, bridged the skills gap by fostering industry-training collaboration and equipping out-of-school youth with market relevant skills.
The development of competency-based modular programs with industry participation ensured that training programs were aligned with labor market needs. Faculty members gained hands-on experience through industry attachments, enhancing the relevance of instruction and improving program delivery.
The results were impressive: 80% of the 1,360 beneficiaries interviewed who had participated in the short-term training under the Rapid Response Training window found permanent jobs after completing their training. Overall, more than 80% of the nearly 24,000 individuals who participated in Skills Development Fund programs successfully graduated, with women making up over one-third of graduates.
Employers confirmed the program’s effectiveness, with 83% reporting high satisfaction with how the training improved workplace productivity. The PSG also boosted entrepreneurship, with many graduates starting businesses that created additional jobs. These outcomes demonstrated how well-targeted, employer-linked training could transform workforce development across an entire country.
The PSG Program catalyzed the creation and accreditation of 46 new or upgraded TVET and degree programs on the selected economic sectors aligned with market needs (energy, transport and logistics, and agro-processing). Thus, nearly 6,000 new students enrolled in these future-forward fields. With programs co-developed alongside industry partners, students weren’t just learning–they were preparing for real jobs in real industries.
From Gender Gaps to Growing Equality
For girls like Joy, the challenges were even steeper. Technical training was largely male-dominated–men outnumbered women three to one in technical tertiary institutions. But the PSG Program made gender inclusion a cornerstone of its mission, supporting government gender equality policy, which encouraged greater female participation in the training programs.
Gender-based violence (GBV) awareness has become part of the curriculum with updates of institutions’ codes of conduct. Retooling staff implementing the program with gender-responsive training and gender consideration in students’ enrollment paid off. Women made up 47.8% of short-term training graduates. .
In Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs–where women had been chronically underrepresented–female access to student loans for long-term training has increased from 32% to 38%.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Enhancing Skills Development with Real-Time Insights
One reason Rwanda’s reforms worked is because they were backed by data. At the start of the PSG Program, there was no centralized way to understand where graduates went, what employers needed, or how well training worked.
The PSG Program introduced two transformative systems: a Graduate Tracking System and a modernized Labor Market Information System. These tools gave policymakers and educators real-time insights into school outcomes and graduate success, helping align training programs with labor market needs, skills gaps, and emerging opportunities.
Laying the Foundation for the Future
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This program is a powerful example of what’s possible when investment aligns with real labor market needs through a results-based financing approach. By linking financing to results and labor market outcomes, Rwanda implemented a major shift towards market driven skills development, a critical driver of economic transformation. The PSG has laid a solid foundation for improved processes and governance of skills development in Rwanda with a key focus on market relevance to improve employability through development of demand driven new/updated curriculum by the private sector/industry and academia; effective and efficient tracking and recovery of student loans; and support to the SDF to directly respond to market labor market segments and diverse groups of youths in Rwanda.
As Rwanda now enters the next phase, with new support from the World Bank through the Priority Skills for Growth and Youth Employment Project, it carries with it a blueprint for success: match training to real-world demand, build systems for inclusion and accountability, and invest in people as the country’s most valuable asset.
This feature comes from Seimane Diouf, Senior Program Assistant at the World Bank, who gratefully acknowledges and thanks the World Bank’s Ruth Karimi Charo (Senior Education Specialist, Program Task Team Leader), and Sergio Venegas Marin (Economist, Program Task Team Member) for their valuable guidance and contribution.
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Africa: How Kup Women for Peace Is Ending Conflict and Supporting Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
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June 19, 2025By
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– 19 June marks International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, a day to reflect on the impact of this heinous war crime and the need to stand with survivors to break the cycle of violence.
It also provides an opportunity to highlight the critical role of women in peacebuilding, and the need to invest in local civil society organizations working in communities to support survivors and prevent future conflict.
Below, President of Papua New Guinea’s Kup Women for Peace, Angela Apa, speaks about her decades of activism to end tribal conflict in Papua New Guinea and to address other forms of violence against women and girls. Kup Women for Peace is a community organization based in Simbu Province that works alongside formal and traditional structures of leadership to change attitudes about both violence and women’s roles in society.
Why are you called “Mama Angela”?
Because I treat everyone like my daughters and sons. When they have problems, they come to me for comfort. I share whatever I have with them, pray with them, counsel them. So they call me “Mama”, even the men.
How do women use their influence to broker peace between tribes but also within families?
That power comes from participating as a woman leader in the community. I do a lot of awareness on human rights and the laws affecting the rights of women and men. I explain that violence is stopping the development of the community. They realize that when there’s a lot of fighting and hatred, it’s not bringing development into their community or their family. It stops children from going to school, and that hinders prosperity in the community. Most of the time, I am their TV, their newsletter, their source of knowledge, so people trust our work. They respect the work that Kup Women for Peace is doing. The network in the Highlands is very strong. If I cannot solve a problem, I call another group and we have a case conference.
“Women and girls were being raped, cash crops and houses were being destroyed, and boys who should’ve been in school were killed because of tribal fighting.” – Angela Apa, President of Kup Women for Peace
How did you end the tribal conflict between your own tribe and others?
In 1999, we did a lot of groundwork. I had to walk from my tribe to my two enemy tribes, [and talk to] my enemy sisters, Agnes Sil and Mary Kini [co-founders of Kup Women for Peace]. Our men used to fight against each other and when we were children, we saw what was happening. Girls were being forced to marry the men with guns, women and girls were being raped in the trouble fighting, cash crops and houses were being destroyed, and boys who should’ve been in school were killed because of tribal fighting.
We made a grand survey walking from enemy tribe to enemy tribe. We said, “We will make peace”. One year we did awareness, then we did training on conflict resolution, peacebuilding and after this groundwork, we said, “Enemies are for men, not for us women”. We educated all the women, brought them all together and made a mass awareness campaign. All the enemy women from each tribe joined hands and said, “Who is the man who has the guts to fight us?” The men were not afraid, but they realized that we meant business.
A big reconciliation happened in 2000 and all the tribes came together. To this day, no fighting. If there’s going to be a fight, someone will call me, any time of the day or night, and I will call the police.
Please share your experience addressing sorcery-accusation related violence (SARV) in Papua New Guinea.
It’s like witchcraft. In the Highlands region, SARV is mostly done when somebody dies. If the leader in the community, or his wife or child dies, someone may accuse vulnerable men, women, children or even the whole family of sorcery. When they are accused, their houses are burned, sometimes they are bashed up. When that happens, they come to us and we put them in crisis support. We also refer them to the police station for legal action and we have a lawyer who writes their affidavit and helps them go to court.
“To this day, no fighting. If there’s going to be a fight, someone will call me.” – Ms. Apa
Is SARV usually directed at women?
Men are often not accused because they can fight back. But women – vulnerable mothers, widows who have no sons – they will be accused of sorcery. Vulnerable families, especially, who may not be financially [well off] but may be rich in land or resources. Through jealousy or if they want to get their property, perpetrators will accuse vulnerable people to get that land and resources.
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We try to save the survivor and put them in a secure place. If they’ve been beaten up, that may be the hospital, where we have a small area where they can be treated. After the case is referred to the justice system, we mediate – discussing with the police, the village court magistrates, village leaders, and both the perpetrator’s and the survivor’s family. We do a lot of advocacy around the laws against SARV.
How does Kup Women for Peace approach restorative justice?
If I take your coat, I have to restore it back. The damage is done, people are upset, but the house has to be rebuilt. We have a peacemaking custom called Brukim Sugar, which means “breaking sugar”. We have sugar cane in the villages that grows very tall. They cut it, and each side takes half. Now, sometimes we use Coca-Cola. We take one each, offer it to each other and then we share and drink. It’s a sign of peacemaking.
As told to Anne Fullerton. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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