I can only echo what has been said before, sadly. The UN has it's heart in the right place, but it all falls flat with the application. They have created such a complex bureaucracy that they need more people to oversee the operations than are on the ground, while the ones on the ground are too busy posturing and sniffing bums to see who is the bigger dog on the street to get anything worthwhile done.
We flew a 61 in Mozambique from Nampula to Pemba with a bunch of UN staff so we could have a day at the beach and took along a few bags of maize meal and other dry rations that were on order for there so we could justify the trip.
About the only meaningful thing I was part of there was on polling day when we moved ballot boxes and observers around and the de-mining work we were assigned to. The rest was a shambles of Monty Python proportions with people who were sometimes barely qualified to walk upright trying to put together million dollar missions and then going to meetings to try and figure out why it all fell over so soon.
Ditto the Cote d' Ivoire mission where it was worse in some ways as aircrew.
Both Moz and CI missions involved us doing medevacs and with the exception of illnesses like Malaria and the occasional heart attack most were UN vehicle accidents with drivers who should never have been allowed to push a wheelbarrow around a level parking lot, let alone drive a Land Rover in the hills during the rainy season, or in a town with demarkated lanes and traffic rules.
Still, it paid well...........................
