Memorandum on the Unodc

¶ … new head of the department of the UN system organization on the various parts that make up the organization including when it was founded, problems, and future plans. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime or the UNODC is an international leader in the battle against international crime and illegal drugs. Founded in 1997, the organization was established via a merger between the Centre for International Crime Prevention and the United Nations Drug Control Programme.

Operation in all areas of the globe, it fulfills objectives via an extensive network of field offices. Because 90% of the organization's budget relies on governments, it operates mainly on voluntary contributions. In 2002 the UNODC was renamed and given its current name with headquarters in Vienna. The UNODC employs 1,500 people internationally with Yuri Fedotov as its executive director. Its main purpose for creation is to equip governments to handle terrorism-, drug-, crime-, and corruption-related issues, maximizing information on such issues between governmental agencies and institutions.

The organization also seeks to maximize awareness of aforementioned matters at the community, national, and global level. While not an intervening kind of organization, UNODC's operational framework incorporates United Nations Conventions as well as all their related protocols. An example of this is the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. A crime-related treaty enforced September 29, 2003, it served as a legally binding instrument that states involved parties must commit to taking a series of anti-transnational organized crime measures.

This United Nations convention signifies a significant stage in how the United Nations deals with transnational crime through recognition of the severity of issue that crime poses. While the UNODC's main mission is to aide in the war against terrorism, crime, political corruption, and illegal drugs, through the Millennium Declaration, Member States are also determined to fight transnational crime through all its dimensions, redoubling efforts to counter the global drug problem and intensify action against international terrorism. The main themes the organization deals with are: 1. Corruption 2. Prison Reform 3. Criminal Justice 4.

Drug Prevention/Treatment 5. Crime Prevention 6. Human Trafficking 7. HIV / AIDS 8. Organized Crime 9. Money Laundering 10. Migrant Smuggling 11. Terrorism Prevention 12. Piracy The headquarters are located in Vienna with 21 field offices located throughout the world. Two liaison offices are located in New York and Brussels. The current membership or employed members are 1,500. How people are employed at UNODC are through two options, the UN Careers portal and through temporary job openings/internship programs. The person that appoints the agency's Executive Director is the United Nations Secretary-General.

Yuri Fedetov gained the position of Executive Director in 2010, succeeding Antonio Maria Costa. Yuri Viktorovich Fedotov gained the position of Executive Director of the UNODC because of his status as a high level Russian diplomat and his previous five-ear position as Ambassador of Russia to the UK, specifically, the Court of St. James's. His predecessor, Costa, was Executive Director of the UNODC for eight years from May 2002 to July 2010. Possible questions to ask the Chief Executive may be: 1. What other prerequisites are required to obtain the position of Executive Director? 2.

Are you responsible for fundraising and/or budgeting for any plans/objectives? 3. Does being a diplomat provide adequate experience for an Executive Director of UNODC? 4. How long do you plan to serve in this position? The only budget information available for the UNODC is from 2014. "The UNODC consolidated budget for the biennium 2014-2015 is U.S. $760.1 million, including around U.S.$88,9 million (11,7%) from the UN regular budget" ("Donors," 2016). The main source of funding for the UNODC is voluntary donor contributions and they comprise of two types.

The first is the GP or general-purpose funds. They are unearmarked voluntary contributions used for support to standards and technical norms for Member States, research, program development, and provision of strategic direction and policy. The second is SP or special-purpose funds. These are earmarked voluntary contributions given in order to finance the agency's technical cooperation as well as other substantive activities in Vienna (Headquarters) and the field. In 2014, UNODC received $287.8 million in voluntary contributions.

The biggest donors (over $3 million) were Columbia, Denmark, Japan, Brazil, Norway, Netherlands, the European Union, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. "The distribution of the funding was as follows: Earmarked or special purpose funding - U.S.$280.6 million (98 per cent), general purpose funding - U.S.$7.2 million (2.5 per cent)" ("Donors," 2016). The U.S.A. pledged 7% of the 2014 General Purpose Fund ($7,187,287). There is not much influence from the U.S. in regards to the UNODC and the voting aspect of the agency.

Some recent achievements for UNODC has been the United.