April 2022 – Flesh & Blood: The Blog of Mukesh Kapila

UNOPS reaction to likely fraud is too little, too late, too phoney

22 April 2022 – Mukesh Kapila If there was a competition for the least trustworthy communications from a development agency, the United Nations Office for Project Services would be the undoubted champion. Scrolling its website is a singularly uninformative experience. UNOPS has never been transparent about the ups and downs that are normal for anyContinue reading “UNOPS reaction to likely fraud is too little, too late, too phoney”

Acting for accountability and correction at the top of UNOPS

Slowly but steadily, the impunity enjoyed by the leadership of the corruption-mired United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is getting stripped away.

Hard times are normal times: reflections on resilience to crises

What is resilience? In our age of severe and prolonged crises from repeated disasters and endless wars, we need a lot of resilience at policy, institutional and, above all, at personal level.

Mismanagement, fraud, and corruption at UNOPS: the Executive Board must act now

This is a call for urgent action by the Executive Board of UNOPS to tackle mismanagement, fraud, and corruption at this Unites Nations system agency

Fooling your own people at UNOPS won’t work

This is the fifth in a series of recent articles on fraud, corruption, and mismanagement at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), that is potentially implicating its top leadership.