"It's gonna be you, Gaze."
When Lena had first told you that, you could hardly believe it. Out of all the candidates (even the sortition one), you'd considered yourself to be the least likely one. Song had prestige, Lev had vision, Giovanna had fire…what did you have? A call to be nicer to our common lifeworld, to histories and peoples long suppressed. From a certain point of view, you were asking people to turn their back on civilization itself. In this, it helped that the other side had been using that term in great bold letters to advertise themselves. But still, you weren't even some Civic Romantic, trying to rekindle the aesthetics of the nation-state from a more critical perspective.
No, you stood for plurality, ambiguity, a willingness to see outside the norms and forms of the UN system. While that had helped you build bridges with the neutral powers, it also made you a liability when it came to the Wall that existed between Us and Them. You weren't afraid to liaise with the Sámi, for instance, even if their representatives had to be smuggled in via submarine. And when it came to South-East Asia, you had already been warned by "DPPA Intelligence Officers" (a nice euphemism for Comintern spooks) that you weren't to work with any 'ambiguous polities'. That was their turf, presumably.
Now that you had the top job, though, you were probably going to step on a lot more toes. Hell, they might even get angry at you if you didn't do enough to disrupt the status quo. People always accused your branch of advocacy of opposing Development itself. And to be honest, you did find it to be somewhat of a dirty term, seeing as how it'd been used to Manifest certain Destinies. You'd have to make the rest of the bureaucracy see that, and coax this leviathan onto a different course. Sure, you might not pump as much resources into the megacities as your predecessors had. But by deprioritizing them, and rebuilding old communities in areas long neglected, you'd be doing these choked-up hell realms a favor.
To make your priorities self-evident, your first task would be to establish your Core Group. This was one of your few prerogatives as Vice-Chairman, and served to create a more condensed working group within the larger UNIDA constellation. It would be a way to keep everyone with the program, to prioritize those parts of HALE that you thought were most important. And, if you felt like anything was left out at the end, you could task the UNDP with picking up any remaining projects. Overall, everything was going to get done, just at different speeds. You were there to choose what to accelerate.
Core Group Vote! Which of these organizations will Gaze Starhawk include in their coalition? Please note that their size attribute here describes their contribution to the UN developmental sphere, and not their size within the UN system as a whole. 'Large' organizations are permanent members, and certain others inherently hold Gaze's favor; these must be part of any plan draft. For the rest of them, pick one Medium organizations and two Small ones.
For more information on these organizations, consult the earlier Informational post.
[X] [Large] UNDP
[X] [Large] UNEEF
[X] [Large] UNHCR
[X] [Large] DPO
[X] [Medium] UNPFII
[X] [Small] UNETC
[] [Medium] UNESCO
[] [Medium] UNODOS
[] [Medium] UN Habitat
[] [Medium] ISCRA
[] [Small] UNCXR
[] [Small] UNLIEC
[] [Small] OHCSSR
[] [Small] UNOCHA
[] [Small] ILO
[] [Small] IOM
