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UNICEF

This book provides an in-depth analysis of UNICEFs development and operations, whilst exploring the significance of UNICEFs achievements and the reasons behind them.

UNICEF, the UN Children fund, is one of the best-known organizations of the United Nations system and the oldest of the UNs development funds. It is also the part of the UN which consistently receives support from all countries round the world, including the United States. This book brings out the wider reasons for UNICEFs success and popularity, setting them in the context of UNICEFs evolution since 1946 and drawing lessons for other international organizations. The book argues that despite its problems, international action for children, built substantially on non-economic foundations, is not only possible, but can be highly successful in mobilizing support, producing results and making a difference to the lives of millions of children. UNICEF is a positive example of human global governance in operation.

This will be of great interest to all scholars of international organizations, development, human rights and the United Nations system.

Richard Jolly is a development economist and honorary professor and research associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where he was director in the 1970s. He worked for the UN as an assistant secretary-general for almost 20 years: in 198295 as deputy executive director for programs of UNICEF, and in 19962000 as special coordinator of UNDPs Human Development Report. After leaving the UN, for 10 years he was co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project and co-author of the summary volume, UN Ideas that Changed the World. His career has combined development action, research and teaching, for the UN, for governments, and for universities. He has worked as an economist in some dozen countries and written or edited some 20 books, notably on redistribution with growth, adjustment with a human face, disarmament and development. He was knighted by HM The Queen in 2001 for his contributions to international development.

Routledge Global Institutions Series

Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
and Rorden Wilkinson
University of Manchester, UK

About the series

The Global Institutions Series has two streams. Those with blue covers offer comprehensive, accessible, and informative guides to the history, structure, and activities of key international organizations, and introductions to topics of key importance in contemporary global governance. Recognized experts use a similar structure to address the general purpose and rationale for specific organizations along with historical developments, membership, structure, decision-making procedures, key functions, and an annotated bibliography and guide to electronic sources. Those with red covers consist of research monographs and edited collections that advance knowledge about one aspect of global governance; they reflect a wide variety of intellectual orientations, theoretical persuasions, and methodological approaches. Together the two streams provide a coherent and complementary portrait of the problems, prospects, and possibilities confronting global institutions today.
Some titles with related themes in the series include:

The World Health Organization (2009)
by Kelley Lee

Global Governance, Poverty, and Inequality (2010)
edited by Jennifer Clapp and Rorden Wilkinson

Global Poverty (2010)
by David Hulme

The UN Development Programme and System (2011)
Stephen Browne

Global Health Governance (2012)
by Sophie Harman

The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond (2012)
edited by Rorden Wilkinson and David Hulme

UNICEF

Global governance that works

Richard Jolly

First published 2014
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2014 Richard Jolly

The right of Richard Jolly to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Jolly, Richard.
UNICEF (United Nations Childrens Fund): global governance
that works / Richard Jolly.
pages cm (Global institutions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. UNICEFHistory. 2. Child welfareDeveloping countries
History. I. Title.
HV703.J65 2014
362.7-dc23
2013039347

ISBN: 978-0-415-49116-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-49117-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-79550-8 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Taylor & Francis Books

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The current volume is the eighty-fourth title in a dynamic series on global institutions. These books provide readers with definitive guides to the most visible aspects of what many of us know as global governance. Remarkable as it may seem, there exist relatively few books that offer in-depth treatments of prominent global bodies, processes, and associated issues, much less an entire series of concise and complementary volumes. Those that do exist are either out of date, inaccessible to the non-specialist reader, or seek to develop a specialized understanding of particular aspects of an institution or process rather than offer an overall account of its functioning and situate it within the increasingly dense global institutional network. Likewise, existing books have often been written in highly technical language or have been crafted in-house and are notoriously self-serving and narrow.

The advent of electronic media has undoubtedly helped research and teaching by making data and primary documents of international organizations more widely available, but it has complicated matters as well. The growing reliance on the Internet and other electronic methods of finding information about key international organizations and processes has served, ironically, to limit the educational and analytical materials to which most readers have ready accessnamely, books. Public relations documents, raw data, and loosely refereed websites do not make for intelligent analysis. Official publications compete with a vast amount of electronically available information, much of which is suspect because of its ideological or self-promoting slant. Paradoxically, a growing range of purportedly independent websites offering analyses of the activities of particular organizations has emerged, but one inadvertent consequence has been to frustrate access to basic, authoritative, readable, critical, and well-researched texts. The market for such has actually been reduced by the ready availability of varying quality electronic materials.

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