Gordon Brown has called for a civilian rapid reaction force made up of police, fire officers, judges and other experts to help failed states get back on the road to recovery much more quickly and avoid prolonged instability.

In a keynote speech today as part of his mission to India, the Prime Minister will explain how in the "new world order", some of the largest international organisations, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, were created in a different age and had to be overhauled radically to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Addressing an audience of local business leaders in New Delhi, he will tell them that swifter action is needed to "ensure rapid reconstruction on the ground once conflicts are over".

Experts could come from different parts of the world with police officers from Britain, health workers from France and fire officers from Australia.

He proposes that United Nations Security Council resolutions that authorised peacekeeping missions should also kickstart stabilisation and reconstruction, that one envoy should be given authority for all peacekeeping and recovery in post-conflict periods, and that a new UN crisis prevention and recovery fund to provide immediate support for reconstruction should be set up. He also recommended a "rapid response standby teams of judges, police, trainers and other civilian experts who can work on the ground to help put countries on the road to economic recovery and political stability".

Reform of the so-called international architecture, Britain believes, will include an "expanded" Security Council.

The Prime Minister has already spoken to George W Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy, the presidents of America and France, as well as other world leaders to argue for a larger membership of the Security Council to include India, whose recent expansion economically makes it a key world player.

However, Britain has made it clear that it has no intention of giving up its veto - yet critics will point out that this would make an enlarged Security Council, where all members are equal, even more difficult to operate than at present.

In his speech, Mr Brown will speak of the necessity to "consider reform of our international rules and institutions to reflect the urgency of tackling global poverty and climate change".

Insisting that there was also an urgent need for the financing of environmentally sustainable development, he will say: "While we strengthen the World Bank's focus on poverty reduction, its capacity and global reach should make it also a bank for the environment," ensuring an integrated approach to poverty eradication and climate change reduction.

As part of this, the PM will suggest creating a climate change fund that would operate within the World Bank's clean energy investment framework and that would allow developing countries to jump a generation economically and avoid a major polluting phase. It would fund "low carbon investment, sustainable forestry programmes, adaption and climate-resilient development in the poorest countries".

On the economic side, Mr Brown is calling for reform of the IMF to make its surveillance function operate independently, as a central bank would, to help quell global economic turbulence seen this year in the credit crunch caused by the problems in the sub-prime housing market in America.

The IMF should, argues the Prime Minister, be "at the heart of an early warning system for financial turbulence affecting the global economy".

Mr Brown insists that his proposals represent the way forward for a new global society, which was founded in several international organisations but grounded in the rules nations shared.

He adds: "Only in this way can globalisation become what it should be - a force for justice on a global scale."