Relief & Development
Organizations
International
United Nations Organizations
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• Food and Agriculture
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Organization (FAO)
United Nations
Development Program
United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)
International Fund for
Agricultural Development
World Health
Organization (WHO)
World Bank
World Food Program
• World’s Largest
Humanitarian Agency
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104 million peopled aided
81 countries
5.9 million tons food
$3.275 Billion
8,770 Employees
• Relief and Development
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http://www.wfp.org
School Feeding
Fight against HIV/AIDS
Food for Work
Focus on women
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)
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Darfur, Sudan
www.unicef.org
Girls’ education
Immunizations
HIV/AIDS
Early Childhood Nutrition
Child Protection
• Violence, child soldering
• Exploitation, child labor
• Sexual abuse, trafficking
Child Soldiering
UNICEF Child Protection
• 100,000 child soldiers
– Mostly Africa
• Recruited into armed
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groups by force
Taught to kill, rape
Drugged, abused
Easier to train than adults
Psychological damage
Rape and Violence
UNICEF Child Protection
• Systematic rape of women
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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 trafficking
UNICEF Child Protection
• 1.2 million children trafficked
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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
Child Prostitution
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• Linked to criminal activity
International Fund for
Agricultural Development
• 900 million extremely
poor rural people
worldwide
• Goal: enable the rural poor
to overcome poverty
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Microcredit
Household food security
Livestock and rangeland
Sustainable livelihoods
Women’s empowerment:
• Credit, Land,
Technology
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
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Policy advice
Technical assistance
184 countries
9,300 employees
$20.1 billion for 245 projects
Governmental Agencies
Government aid for development
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United States
Japan
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
Italy
Norway
Denmark
Canada
Australia
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
USAID in Uganda
• Partnership with
– 3,500 U.S. businesses
– 3,000 Organizations
• $8.8 Billion
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
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2004 World Food Prize
www.worldfoodprize.org
Center for Global Development
Food First
Greenpeace
Institute for Agriculture and
Trade Policy
International Food Policy
Institute
Winrock International
Worldwatch Institute
World Food Prize
Relief Organizations
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Doctors without borders
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Oxfam International
Rotary International
Heifer International
Freedom from Hunger
CARE
Save The Children
Doctors without Borders
International Red Cross
BRAC
Religious Relief Organizations
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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
Global Hunger Index
Hunger Relief Progress
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