UNITED NATIONS: Reform of dysfunctional UN agencies
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The man who headed the World Food Program for a decade says the humanitarian agency was only able to get emergency food aid to the world's hungry after winning a huge bureaucratic battle with another UN agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation. James Ingram says the war between the two UN bodies shows the difficulties of making UN agencies effective. In his new book on reforming the Food Program, Mr Ingram says the number of UN agencies should be cut, leaders should be restricted to seven year terms, and top jobs should no longer be reserved for particular countries.
Presenter: Graeme Dobell
Speakers: Former diplomat and aid agency head James Ingram - his book is "Bread and Stones - leadership and the struggle to reform the UN World Food Program"
