The Whistleblowers - Inside the UN

[anonymous-user]

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[jimmythingy]

Are we at all surprised really, these sort of organisations become corrupt eventually.

You think of Africa, Russia and China as corrupt but the west is just as bad if not worse.

[Scotty2]

That was pretty depressing. Still sending money to Russia?

Marking their own homework it would seem...

[petop]

Ive seen a fair few UN contracts out in those far flung places. When it comes to Tender time and the way its written you can almost guess who will get it.

[StevieBee]

petop said:

Ive seen a fair few UN contracts out in those far flung places. When it comes to Tender time and the way its written you can almost guess who will get it.

I regularly tender for and win UN contracts in these far flung places. Last year, the UN was my biggest single client. In my experience, their tendering process is every bit as robust, fair and transparent as you will find anywhere and can point to any number if UK local authority tenders where your suspicions have more relevance and truth.

I've not yet seen the documentary (but will do and report back here as it's an institution I know quite well). But I'd just point out that the UN is not a single entity rather a collective of a great many divisions, directorates, organisations, projects and other similar things that are all run essentially as independent endeavours with limited upward reporting..... which I suspect may well be the root of the issues covered.