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Inadequate funding of international programmes

Name(s):

Reduction in multilateral aid expenditure

Shortfall in aid to international organizations

Nature

Projects and ongoing programmes of international organizations are impaired by budget limitations. Organizational income is too low to initiate and carry-through to completion necessary work, due to: delinquent payment, non-payment and under-payment of membership assessments; political decisions by member states to limit general fund contributions or not to support specific projects; and lack of other income generating possibilities.

Counter-claim

International organizations propose enormous budgets for an endless variety of programmes only to perpetuate themselves. Their wastage of funds is also high. For essential work their funds are adequate if they would eliminate mismanagement, over-staffing and empire-building.

Broader

Lack of funding

Shortage of financial resources for action against problems

Restrictive conditions on loans through intergovernmental facilities

Narrower

Lack of environmental funding

Inadequate funding of international NGOs

Reallocation of aid funds to alternative priorities

Shortage of financial resources within the United Nations system of organization

Aggravates

Insolvent institutions

Failure of remedial action plans

Undermining of multilateral forums

Lack of biodiversity conservation funding

Inefficiency of international organizations ^{[in 4 loops]}

Inadequate facilities for international organization action ^{[in 2 loops]}

Aggravated by

Lack of governmental support

Prohibitive administrative overhead costs for aid

Loss of credibility in international institutions

Unbridled competition among international organizations for scarce resources

Government non-payment of agreed financial contributions to international organizations

Strategy(ies)

Restructuring foreign aid

Resourcing biodiversity conservation

Providing multilateral financial assistance

Restricting multilateral development aid

Improving funding of international organizations and programmes

Providing inadequate funding of international organizations and programmes

Developing multilateral cooperation

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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