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Report Council of the United Nations University REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFFICIAL RECORDS: THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION SUPPLEMENT No. 31 (A/36/31) '. UNITED NATIONS New York. 1981 R NOTE Symbols of United Nations documents are compoSt!d ofc;pitalletten combined with flaures. Mention ofsuch a symbol indicates a reference to a United Nations document. I I .. '..,..I /Origina1: Eng1ish/ L~8 Ju1;~'- 1981/ CONTENTS REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY . .. 1 Annexes I. Members of the Council of the United Nations University 19 11. Rep0rt of the Rector of the United Nations University to the Council of the United Nations University (July 1980-June 1981) • 21 Ill. Members of the Advisory Committee .. 94 IV. Programme co-ordinators . ...... 96 V. Staff members of the United Nations University. 98 -iii- - ----,---- ----~-......- REPORT OF THE COmWIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY I. OVERVIEVl 1. The year under review marked the end of the first five years of operation of the United Nations University and the beginning of its next stage. On 1 September 1980 Mr. Soedjatmoko became the University's second Rector, succeeding Mr. James M. Hester, the first Rector. At the Council's fifteen~h session, in June 1980, 10 of its 13 new members participated in Council deliberations for the first time, and at the sixteenth session, in December 1980, ne't" Council officers were elected for 1981. Hr. Abdel Salam Majali, President of the Univer'sity of Jordan, was elected Chairman of the Council, replacing Mrs. Ines Wesley-Tanaskovic, Professor of Informatics at the Medical Academy of the University of Yugoslavia, who had served as Chairman in 1979 and 1980. 2. The University engaged in a broad review and rethinking of its aims and activities in preparing to move into the next stage. To help the Council evolve a medium-term perspective for 1982-1987, the Rector presented his ideas for new goals, pro'blem areas or themes, and modes of operation for the University. He also establ~shed a single Advisory Committee to replace the three programme advisory c()mmittees • 3. At the same time, there was continuity in research, advanced training and dissemination of knowledge efforts in the existing programmes of World Hunger, Human and Social Development, and Use and Management of Natural Resources. This is demonstrated by the following highlights of activities: (a) The University now has 28 associated institutions and 112 research and training units carrying out United Nations University work in more than 60 countries. Two new associated institutions joined the United Nations University networks, the University of the West Indies in the World Hunger Programme, and the University of Bern in the Natural Resources Programme. The associations with two other institutions, both in the World Hunger Programmeo were brought to a close. (b) A total of 85 United Nations University Fellows are now in training, while another 75 have been identified and are waiting to begin training. (c) Some 72 workshops, seminars, symposia and meetings were organized by the University during the year under review. ,', ;;, (d) The University published 93 titles during this period, with'a significant increase in technical reports. It moved into the third volume of the two journals Food and Nutrition Bulletin and ASSET (Abstracts of Selected Solar Energy Technologies), publishing five issues of the former and ten of the latter, and also launched publication of a new journal, Mountain Research and Development. 1/ 1/ A complete list of publications can be found in the Rector's Report to the Council (see annex II). -1- • (e) Pledges to the Endo~-nnent Fund ($U8 140,099,082) and Operating F'lmd ($U8 4,643,645) from 34 Governments now total $U8 144 million, of which close to $U8 112 million has been received. During the year under review, $U8 4,343,053 was pledged and/or con:tributed by "19 Governments. (f) During the 12-month period ending 31 December 1980, expenditures incurred for the operations of the University amounted to $U8 12,354,317. The planned expenditures for 1981 total ~~U8 15.6 million. of .ing he s ., "e a :oals, s is Id Itries. the . of the ~, .cant tals also the -2- 'III_!!! C 44 , : 24 to 3 II. COmrCIL SESSIONS AND OFFICERS urred 4. The Council of the United Nations University met twice during the year 1980-1981: the sixteenth session 'to1as held in Tokyo from 1 to 5 December 1980 ~ the seventeenth session ~Tas held at Geneva from 22 to 26 June 1981. At these sessions the Council reviewed the University's progress and heard the Rector's views about new developmentlS for the University. At the sixteenth session the Council appointeQ an Ad Hoc Committee on Planniug to work with the Rector on more concrete proposals for future directions and approved the Rector1s proposed programme and budget for 1981. 5. In addition to the Chairman of the Council ~ the following offi,cers were elected for 1981: Vice-Chairmen of the Council: Mrs. Elise Boulding Mr. Jean Coulomb (second term) Father Felipe E. MacGregor Mr. Malu wa Kalenga (second term) Mr. Shizuo Saito Committee on Finance and Budget Chairman: Mr" Pawel Bozyk Members: Mr. Ungku Abdul Aziz Mr. Deniel Adzei Bekoe Mc. Andre Louis Jaumotte Mr. Victor Urquidi ( ·-3- 13.' Th relatio by thei Ill.' THE THREE PROGRAMMES initiat actions (a) Bas 6. Continuity of the three initial programmes of the United Nations University in (c) Gov the context of the development of new programme directions was emphasized by the evaluat Council. The multidisciplinarity of the initial programmes and the increasing trend human r tmvard interprogramme collaboration has paved the way for the transition to a new programme emphasis on processes of global transformation. 14. A 15 Ma:r A. World Hunger ProRramme 15. Th potenti 7> The Horld Hunger Programme devoted considerable attention to development of the ini"tiat recommendations of the meeting at Bellagio ~ Italy in May 1980, which reviewed the actions programmels conceptual basis and considered future directions~ and to the hunger. formulation or appropria~ely revised objectives and a concomitant sUbpr~gramme structure. The over-all objectives of the ITorld Hunger Programme were ~~defined 16. A as follm-rs: to contribute to an understanding of the causes and consequ~nces of 15 May hunger, both overt and hidden J and to initiate or promote the design, ~ implementation, and evaluation of actions £or its elimination. 17. ThE between 8. During the year under review~ the programme had 12 associated inst.itutions and impleme;.r one training unit. In addition, a number of the programme's associated to hunge institutions developed co-operative links with other institutions to accept Fellows and prac for all or part of their study. In January 1981 the association with the University of the Hest Indies came into effect. This University will work mainly 18. An with the subprogramme on Hunger and Society, providing training for FellOWS from requiren the Caribbean and Enelish-speaking Africa. consumiIJ sponsore 9. Contacts of a more preliminary nature were also made with a number of Republic institutions, notably the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and the with tha University of Ibadan and the University of Lagos in Nigeria. Site visits were also Britain made to institutions in 33 other countries of Africa; Asia, Europe, Latin America, Socialis the Hiddle East ~ and North America. A proposal to establish a nutrition institution recommen in the Persian Gulf area is being developed in collaboration with the United Na+'ions on the a ChileJren's Fund (UNICEF). after pe growth 0 10. The programme organized missions on behalf of the Administrative Committee on infectio Co-ordination/Sub-Committee on Nutrition (ACC-SCN) to assess training needs and possibilities in Africa in Angola~ the United Republic of Cameroon, the Ivory 19. The Coast ~ Mozambique, Senegal and Zaire. These follm-red earlier missions to Ethiopia, provide Kenya, the Sudan~ and the United Republic of Tanzania. The mono March an ll. The quarterly journal "Food and Nutrition Bulletin, pUblished in collaboration of prote with the ACC-SCN, is in its third volume. Two more supplements to the Bulletin, ­ "Food Price Po'icies and Nutrition in Latin America" and lINutritional Evaluation of 20. The Protein FoodsI', were published:, a third, I1Protein-Energy Requirements of Developing deficien Countries: Evaluation of New Data", is in press. various with iro 12. r,10nitoring and review" of the programme work continued at the operational 'tvorkshop level, at the programme level and at the policy level. Nutritio -4- • de 13." The objectives of the Hunger and Society Subprogramme are to uncover the on relationships between hunger as a poverty syndrome and societies as characterized ef by their specific economies, technologies, ideologies, and politics, and to initiate or promote the design, implementation and evaluation of policies &"1d 21 actions to eliminate hunger. Six project areas of top priority have been proposed: 15 (a) Basic causes of hunger; (b) Hunger and the economic structure of society; ~1ethodologies (c) Government pOlicies and peasant food production; (d) for 22 evaluation of food and nutrition effects of development projects: (e) Food as a Na htnnan right· and (f) United Nations resolutions on alleviating hunger. (A ~ 14. A total of 42 Fellow"s have now completed training in this subprogramme (as at thE ll~ 15 Ma;r 1981); are nmv in training and 13 are waiting to begin training. dw Na 15. The subprogramme on Hunger and Technology seeks to uncover the actual and Oct ~ potential effects both positive and negative, of technology on hunger, and to re~ inhiate or promote the design, implementation and evaluation of pOlicies and co actions for the application of technology to contribute to the elimination of SC· hunger.
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