![]() Including these latest debates permits us to analyze the enlargement of DaO initiative from the idea of efficiency at its emergence to the more nuanced approach represented by the current conceptualization of fit for purpose. Furthermore, in the aftermath of SDGs establishment, the UNGA mandated the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to conduct the " Dialogue on the Longer-Term Positioning of the UN Development System " to prepare the formulation of the latest cycle of the QCPR better to be adopted by 2016, introducing institutional changes needed to improve UN cohesion. The QCPR debates incorporated some of the System-Wide coherence reform topic content after its discontinuation in 2012 and gained momentum with the integrated approach of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. To shed light on DaO, this article follows the transition of negotiations over UN fragmentation from the System-Wide Coherence topic at the UN General Assembly (UNGA)-in the wake of the 2005 World Summit-to the ongoing debates around the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Reviews (QCPR). While these are often incorporated under the same umbrella as the DaO initiative, it would be incorrect to infer that the initiative simply reproduces them in a different context today. ![]() Previous institutional innovations were brought about by different reform impetuses-such as Jackson's 1969 Capacity Study and Secretary-General Kofi Annan`s reform agenda in the 1990s. Therefore, my hypothesis is that the DaO initiative is not the simple sum of multiple institutional instruments previously established by scattered efforts to incite coherence within the UN system at the local level. This historically contextualizes the DaO initiative, identifying its predecessors, which serve as references to explain the initiative singularities in the face of previous reform cycles aimed at streamlining the UN system's institutional framework. Before introducing the DaO initiative itself, it is necessary to outline the origins of the UN system's fragmented structure and briefly present previous debates and proposals for tackling its negative effects. Thus, this article tries to explain the DaO's real purpose and structure. Although these motivations to create the DaO initiative and its objectives are often clear, defining the initiative itself is less so. ![]() This reform initiative aims to incite better coordination and coherence throughout the system at the local level, tackling the deleterious effects of an overstretched, underfunded, and excessively fragmented institutional structure. Introduction In order to understand the changes of how the UN system operational activities are structured at the country-level, this article contextualizes and presents the Delivering as One UN initiative (DaO) by describing the process by which it emerged and diffused throughout UN member states in the aftermath of the 2005 World Summit. The success of this ambitious agenda will depend on the EU's capacity to act jointly, on its strategic autonomy, and on its ability to set the tone in both the United Nations General Assembly ( It does not, however, alter the EU's power and influence within the UN. The EU's continued commitment to a 'rules-based multilateralism' provides a good basis for its engagement in the UN. At the start of a new political cycle, the EU faces critical choices in its external action. ![]() However, the UN reforms also reveal how funding patterns, including those of EU institutions and member states, help maintain the fragmentation of the UN system. The prospect of improvements in the UN's in-country architecture can open doors for more effective collaboration on the ground. Yet, the EU struggles to coherently leverage its funding relationship with the UN for greater influence and stronger cooperation. ![]() Collectively, the EU and its member states are the single largest financial contributor to the UN system. The EU remains a stable presence within the UN, but is faced with its own fragmentation which weakens its ability to defend the EU's agenda for a rules-based multilateral system. The normative uniformity of the post-Cold War international system is fading as its centre of gravity shifts away from the West. The multilateral system, with the UN at its core, is changing. It examines opportunities for deepening EU-UN cooperation in the years to come, in light of the 2019 reform of the UN development system, and taking into account the EU's evolving role as a global player. This paper looks at the role of the European Union (EU) and its member states in the United Nations (UN). ![]()
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