Making the UNFSU better

The UNFSU continues to face many internal and external challenges to realizing its full potential of efficiency and effectiveness. It functions across four interfaces and through certain mechanisms, each having its own shortfalls. We shall build on existing strengths and work on improving its weaknesses along those interfaces. A structured, mutual, and continuous engagement along those four axes is crucial to learning, communicating, coordinating, and advancing unified positions on staff issues. However, the strength of the UNFSU partly depends on who the staff elects to take up the crucial role of staff representation at the local but more importantly at the Executive level.

The mandate of the Executives is to proactively improve and call for better policies rather than being reactive. This undertaking requires being dynamic and persistent with deep knowledge, firsthand experience with the field and the ability to leverage analytical skills to formulate and defend solutions in a comprehensive manner.

The complexity of issues the UNFSU handles today necessitates a serious focus on how to make it a stronger representative body. We are strong supporters for the reform, institutionalization, and modernization of the UNFSU. We need an empowered UNFSU that plays a key balancing role in the organization and can eventually take initiatives and not only react to developments. We have some concrete ideas to take a leap on these matters which we intend to implement once in office.