Shifting away from the donor-driven UN: an assessment of the pooled funding mechanism

摆脱捐助者驱动的联合国：对集合供资机制的评估

• 批准号: 2901798
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2901798
• 关键词: Shifting; away; donor; driven; UN

This world needs stronger international institutions, and most notably, a more authoritative United Nations. Starting from this belief, which is backed by a recent survey study and shared by many advocates of supranational and cosmopolitan proposals of UN reform, the proposed research aims to address what is arguably the most problematic aspect of the current UN funding mechanism affecting the UN authority vis-à-vis its member states: the voluntary earmarked contributions. Following a review of relevant scholarly literature, pooled funding is identified as a possible solution to reconcile voluntary earmarked contributions with a more authoritative UN. However, it is unclear why pooled funding remains largely underused compared to the more restrictive and detrimental project- and programme-specific earmarked funding.This research therefore aims to answer the following two research questions: firstly, why is pooled funding so underused as a UN funding mechanism to acquire donor voluntary earmarked contributions compared to the programme- and project-specific funding modality?; and secondly, what are the conditions to be met in order to increase its use?The methodology envisaged to conduct this research project will have a strong empirical component but will also be rooted in theoretical approaches. It is believed that answering the research questions will not only allow to fill an important gap in literature, but also contribute to finding solutions to decrease donors' influence on UN programming and operations and ultimately achieve a less donor-driven, more authoritative UN.

这个世界需要更强大的国际机构，最值得注意的是，需要一个更权威的联合国。从这一信念出发--这一信念得到了最近的一项调查研究的支持，并得到了许多超国家和世界性联合国改革建议的倡导者的认同--拟议的研究旨在解决当前联合国筹资机制中影响联合国权威机构对其成员国最有问题的方面：自愿专用捐款。在对相关学术文献进行审查后，确定集合供资是使自愿专用捐款与更具权威性的联合国保持一致的一种可能解决办法。因此，这项研究旨在回答以下两个研究问题：首先，为什么与针对方案和项目的筹资方式相比，汇集资金作为一种获得捐助者自愿专用捐款的筹资机制使用得如此之少？其次，要增加资金的使用，需要满足哪些条件？这项研究计划采用的方法将具有很强的经验性，但也将植根于理论方法。人们认为，回答这些研究问题不仅可以填补文献中的一个重要空白，还有助于找到解决方案，以减少捐助者对联合国方案编制和运作的影响，并最终实现一个不那么受捐助者驱动、更具权威性的联合国。