"United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is on a blitz campaign to streamline the U.N.'s underperforming bureaucracy, give more authority to its outlying branches, and greatly expand his ability to shuffle money around in the U.N.'s regular biennial budget (just part of its total cost)-all in the next 18 months.
On paper, at least, it amounts to perhaps the most ambitious effort at U.N. reform in 20 years, before the world organization floundered into the vast Oil-for-Food scandal, and a subsequent array of administrative fiascos and largely failed reform attempts under Guterres' predecessor, Ban Ki-moon.
Guterres' chief motivation, though he won't say so explicitly, is the Trump Administration..."