At least two major United Nations development agencies, described as having accumulated some $3.2 billion in cash in 2009, refused to divulge exactly what they spent their program money on, according to a confidential draft report prepared in the summer for the government of Norway and examined by Fox News.

According to the consultants who prepared the two-volume draft study on behalf of the Norwegian development agency known as NORAD, the refusal meant that the agencies, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF, failed “grossly” to live up to the “credo of adherence to transparency” that both agencies claim to follow in their work.

A third agency, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, was not cited for “gross” failure, but also refused to provide spending details, “particularly recent staff costs.”

The two-volume draft study, was prepared for Norway, one of the UN’s biggest donors, in June by the private consulting firm IDC, and aimed to “contribute to the understanding of financing flows and current financial planning and budgeting processes,” at five selected UN agencies, including “how are resources allocated” and “where does the money go.”

Fox News examined the first volume last summer and reported that four of the five UN agencies examined by IDC had a much bigger total of at least $12.2 billion in unspent cash by the end of 2009. The first volume of the study warned that the multi-billion-dollar bulge might “result in a situation where donors may not fund the UN system as much as before, until these reserves are utilized and brought down to an appropriate level.”

Aside from UNFPA and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN agencies cited in the first volume of the draft report for their cash stockpiles included the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the World Food Program (WFP). The fifth agency, UNHCR, apparently did not have such a cash stockpile.

All of the agencies refused to comment to Fox News on the specifics of the document at that time, citing the fact that it was in draft form. Nonetheless, they vigorously denied having unspent free cash in their treasuries, saying that the funds were specifically earmarked for the future years of programs that had already been approved.

This time, UNICEF and UNFPA declined comment on questions from Fox News regarding the assertions made in the second volume of the study, as did UNDP.

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Editor's Note: Not a penny more of US taxpayer dollars to this corrupt entity -- the United Nations and the full compliment of its "agencies." How dare they take our money and then insist we don't have the right to know how it is spent.