Contents

International Organizations and the Generation of the Will to Change (Part #2)

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• Introduction
• Study of the Capacity of the U.N. Development System
• Introduction
• Terms of Reference
• The Capacity Study as the Analysis of a System
  • a) Subject areas interacting with development are ignored
  • b) Organizations interacting with the U.N. development system are ignored
  • c) Management problems of bodies outside the U.N. system are ignored
  • d) Administrative and operational processes on which U.N. development programmes are dependent are ignored
• Concept of Future U.N. Structure
• Concept of the Future U.N. development information system
  • a) Development bias
  • b) Country bias
  • c) U.N./UNDP bias concerning control information
  • d) Operational information bias
  • e) Bias against some categories of operational information
  • f) Lack of interest in effects of programmes
  • g) Documentation bias
• Report of the Commission on International Development
• Report of the U.N. Centre for Economic and Social Information
  • a) Mobilization of will
  • b) Stages in the progressive definition of "want"
  • c) Meaning of "groups"
  • d) Consequences of development
  • e) Target audience data bank service
• Report of the Committee on Scientific and Technical Communication
• Discussion
  • a) Implications for the future of nongovernmental organizations
  • b) Participation, legitimacy and will
  • c) Complexity
  • d) Comprehensibility
  • e) Conservation of resources
  • f) Urgency
• Tools for the Future
  • a) Planning
  • b) Networks
  • c) Computers
• Conclusions
• Appendix I: Organizational networks
• Appendix II: Sketch of a world action-potential information system
• Appendix III: A network approach to programme interaction
• Appendix IV: Summary of world system data banks