Stephen Browne and Thomas G. 
Weiss (with Vikas Nath)
Extracts from the 2012 Global Perceptions Survey: The survey underlines two challenges currently facing the UN’s development activities: the lack of system-wide coherence; and the possible increasing irrelevance for contemporary development problems.
The survey evidence makes starkly obvious that the UN accelerate major structural reform if it is to be an effective vehicle of development in the future. The FUNDS Project has identified a third critical challenge confronting the UNDS: organizational inertia and complacency.
Vikas Nath 