Relief & Development Organizations

International

United Nations Organizations

• World Food Program • Food and Agriculture

Organization (FAO)• United Nations

Development Program • United Nations Children’s

Fund (UNICEF)• International Fund for

Agricultural Development • World Health Organization

(WHO)• World Bank

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World Food Program

• World’s Largest Humanitarian Agency– 104 million peopled aided – 81 countries– 5.9 million tons food– $3.275 Billion– 8,770 Employees

• Relief and Development– School Feeding– Fight against HIV/AIDS– Food for Work– Focus on women

http://www.wfp.org

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Information/data Network for agriculture– Statistics, publications

– 1 million website hits/month

• Field Projects– Manages 1000s of projects

– Technical expertise

• Global Ag Policy

• Offices in 100 countries

• $750 million

www.fao.org

United Nations Development Program

• Better life for people– Democratic Governance– Poverty Reduction– Crisis Prevention and

Recovery– Energy and Environment– HIV/AIDS

• Millennium Development Goals

• 166 countries• $280 million

www.undp.org

United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

• For every child:– Health– Education– Equality– Protection

• Priorities:– Girls’ education– Immunizations– HIV/AIDS– Early Childhood Nutrition– Child Protection

• Violence, child soldering • Exploitation, child labor• Sexual abuse, trafficking

                      

Darfur, Sudan

www.unicef.org

Child SoldieringUNICEF Child Protection

• 100,000 child soldiers– Mostly Africa

• Recruited into armed groups by force

• Taught to kill, rape

• Drugged, abused

• Easier to train than adults

• Psychological damage

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Rape and ViolenceUNICEF Child Protection

• Systematic rape of women and girls– Areas of armed conflict

– Refugee camps

– Women of all ages targeted

– Tactic of war

• Congo– 100,000 raped since 1998

• Rwanda– 250,000 raped during genocide

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Child traffickingUNICEF Child Protection

• 1.2 million children trafficked– Adoptions– Labor– Mail order brides– Prostitution

• Virgins thought to be AIDS cure• 30% of sex workers in S.E. Asia

are under 17• 7,000 trafficked to USA/year

• Abuse, degradation– Slavery

• Poverty is root cause– Parents sell children to pay debts– Or are duped

• Linked to criminal activityChild Prostitution

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International Fund for Agricultural Development

• 900 million extremely poor rural people worldwide

• Goal: enable the rural poor to overcome poverty– Microcredit

– Household food security

– Livestock and rangeland

– Sustainable livelihoods

– Women’s empowerment:• Credit, Land, Technology

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World Health Organization

• Goal: attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health

• Information resource– Statistics– Publications

• Crisis management– Outbreaks– Immunizations

• $450 million• 192 countries

                                                    

                           

Immunization

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World Bank

• Goal: – fight poverty in developing

countries– Improve standard of living

• Loans– Roads, ports– Education, health systems

• Policy advice• Technical assistance• 184 countries• 9,300 employees• $20.1 billion for 245 projects

www.worldbank.org

Governmental Agencies

Government aid for development

• United States• Japan• France• United Kingdom• Germany• Netherlands• Sweden• Italy • Norway • Denmark• Canada• Australia

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USA: Peace Corps

• Peace Corps – Volunteers work in

developing countries

– Promote:• Education

• Agriculture

• Health, HIV/AIDS

• Business

• International understanding

www.peacecorps.gov

U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Started with Marshall Plan after WWII

• Principal U.S. foreign aid agency to help countries:– Recover from disaster– Escape poverty– Democratic reforms

• Partnership with – 3,500 U.S. businesses– 3,000 Organizations

• $8.8 Billion

                                           

USAID in Uganda

www.usaid.gov

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

• CIMMYT

– International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

• IRRI

– International Rice Research Institute

• CIP

– International Potato Center

• ILRI

– International Livestock Research Institute

www.cgiar.org

Policy Organizations

• Center for Global Development• Food First• Greenpeace• Institute for Agriculture and

Trade Policy• International Food Policy

Institute• Winrock International• Worldwatch Institute• World Food Prize

2004 World Food Prize

www.worldfoodprize.org

Relief Organizations

• Oxfam International

• Rotary International

• Heifer International

• Freedom from Hunger

• CARE

• Save The Children

• Doctors without Borders

• International Red Cross

Doctors without borders

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Religious Relief Organizations

• Bread for the World• Catholic Relief Services• ELCA World Hunger (Lutheran)• Feed the Children• Food for the Hungry• Presbyterian Hunger Program• UMCOR World Hunger/Poverty

(Methodist)• Food for Life Global (Hindu)

Catholic Relief Services

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Hunger Relief Progress

Hunger Relief Progress

Hunger Relief Progress

                                                                                                                                                                                        

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Hunger relief Progress

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Hunger Relief Progress

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