Regular and critical monitoring is needed to pay for the critical heads and prune down non-essentials. Also reviews the manpower deployed.

1. PROBLEMS OF UN FUNDING FOR
PEACE KEEPING

2. Presentation
by
Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar
at
11th winter course on Law of International
Institutions at the ISIL

3. FUNDING SOURCE
All 193 members are required to make payments to the
UNO.
Members may also make voluntary contributions.

4. FUNDS ARE TO BE BUDGETED FOR
1. UN’s regular budget (Administrative costs)
2. A few specific programs
3. Peace keeping ops

5. PEACE KEEPING EFFORTS
11 Missions
70,000 No of mil, police and civ personnel 100 drawn from
countries.

6. US SHARE
As assessed by UN it is 26.94%.

7. USA remains the largest donor contributing roughly
11bn USD, which is about one fifth of the UN collective
budget.

8. US ARREARS
Accumulated to over 1.1 bn since FY 2017

9. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
had cut down
1. Peace keeping operations
2. Reduced Specialized agencies (eg. UN Agency for
Palestinian Refugees, UN Population fund, UN AIDS and
WHO)

10. CONSEQUENCES
1. Cash shortages.
2. Delay in reimbursement to some TCCs.
3. US peacekeeping arrears.

11. CUT IN BUDGET
2’8 PERCENT IN 2021 BUDGET AS COMPARED
TO 2020.

12. President Biden has given new hope by paying its dues
and signaling a renewed commitment to the UN

13. WHAT GOT HIT
1. More financial aid
2. Vaccines

14. RECENT CHALLENGES
1. UNSC stalemate on Syria
2. Unprecedented refugee and migrant crisis
3. Global health crisis

15. WAY AHEAD
1. Other countries eg. China should increase their share
2. Review mega sized projects like pandemic and climate
change

16. CONCLUSION
Regular and critical monitoring is needed to pay for
the critical heads and prune down non-essentials.
Also reviews the manpower deployed.