Secretary-General presents the Report of the Mandate Implementation Review

Secretary-General presents the Report of the Mandate Implementation Review

A man with thousands of pages of documents being printed at the UN headquarters  in June 1969.
UN Photo/Yutaka Nagata

Millions of lives have been improved by the mandates assigned to the UN. Yet duplication, fragmentation and outdated tasks are stretching resources and undermining the organization’s ability to deliver for those who need it most. As part of the UN80 Initiative, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has presented a set of proposals to Member States to make the UN more efficient, coherent and impactful.