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International Health Agencies

UNICEF advocates for children's rights, promoting early childhood care, girls' education, immunization, and protection from diseases like HIV/AIDS. Various UN agencies, including WHO, UNDP, UNFPA, FAO, and ILO, focus on health, development, and poverty reduction, while organizations like CARE and the Indian Red Cross provide humanitarian aid and support for vulnerable populations. These efforts aim to create a world where every child has the opportunity for a healthy and dignified life.

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International Health Agencies

UNICEF advocates for children's rights, promoting early childhood care, girls' education, immunization, and protection from diseases like HIV/AIDS. Various UN agencies, including WHO, UNDP, UNFPA, FAO, and ILO, focus on health, development, and poverty reduction, while organizations like CARE and the Indian Red Cross provide humanitarian aid and support for vulnerable populations. These efforts aim to create a world where every child has the opportunity for a healthy and dignified life.

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UNICEF is the driving force that helps

build a world where the rights of every


child are realized
 They advocate for
measures to give children
the best start in life,
because proper care at the
youngest age forms the
strongest foundation for a
person’s future.
 They promote girls’
education – ensuring that
they complete primary
education as a minimum –
because it benefits all
children, both girls and
boys.
 They act so that all children are
immunized against common
childhood diseases, and are well
nourished, because it is wrong
for a child to suffer or die from a
preventable illness.
 They work to prevent the spread
of HIV/AIDS among young people
because it is right to keep them
from harm and enable them to
protect others.
 They involve everyone in
creating protective
environments for children.
 The World Health Organization (WHO) is
a specialized agency of the United
Nations (UN) that is concerned with
international public health.

 WHO has been responsible for playing a


leading role in the eradication of
smallpox.

 Its current priorities include


communicable diseases, in particular,
HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis;
sexual and reproductive health,
development, aging; nutrition, food
security ,healthy eating; occupational
health.
 WHO is responsible for
the World Health Report,
a leading international
publication on health,
the worldwide World
Health Survey, and
World Health Day (7th-
April of every Year).
 UNDP is the UN's global
development network, an
organization advocating for
change and connecting
countries to knowledge,
experience and resources to
help people build a better
life.

 They are on the ground in


166 countries, working with
them on their own solutions
to global and national
development challenges.
 UNDP helps
developing countries
attract and use aid
effectively.
 In all their activities,
they encourage the
protection of human
rights and the
empowerment of
women.
 UNFPA, the United Nations Population
Fund, is an international development
agency that promotes the right of
every woman, man and child to enjoy
a life of health and equal opportunity.
 UNFPA supports countries in using
population data for policies and
programmes to reduce poverty
and to ensure that every
pregnancy is wanted, every birth is
safe, every young person is free of
HIV, and every girl and woman is
treated with dignity and respect.
 UNFPA - because everyone counts
 The Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations leads
international efforts to
defeat hunger. Serving
both developed and
developing countries
 FAO acts as a neutral
forum where all nations
meet as equals to
negotiate agreements
and debate policy.
 Putting information within
reach
 Sharing policy expertise
 Providing a meeting place for
nations
 Bringing knowledge to the field
 The International Labour
Organization (ILO) is
devoted to advancing
opportunities for women
and men to obtain
decent and productive
work in conditions of
freedom, equity,
security and human
dignity.
Its main aims are to
promote rights at work,
encourage decent
employment opportunities,
enhance social protection
and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related
issues.
 The World Bank is a vital source of financial
and technical assistance to developing
countries around the world.

 Their mission is to fight poverty with passion


and professionalism for lasting results and to
help people help themselves and their
environment by providing resources, sharing
knowledge, building capacity and forging
partnerships in the public and private sectors.
 India has the potential to be a catalyst for
economic growth and development in an
unstable region.

 As the world's largest democracy, it is also a


key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism. More
than 50 years of U.S. assistance have helped
India make tremendous gains.

 Working with the government, the private


sector and other donors, USAID leverages
approximately five dollars for every dollar of
development assistance.
However, poverty, rapid population
growth, pockets of weak governance and
poor health systems and indicators
continue to pose serious challenges for
India.

The United States and India are


committed to working in partnership to
reach India’s development goal of
halving poverty
 Economic
growth
 Health
 Disaster
management
 Energy and
Environment
 Opportunity and
equity
 Partnership
 Sida is a government agency of the country of
Sweden with over 650 employees

 Sida channels its resources through NGOs,


multilateral cooperation, among others and is
interested in promoting the idea of
“international development cooperation” to
replace the one-sided giving indicated by the
term “assistance.”
 Sida channels its resources
through NGOs, multilateral
cooperation, and the EU,
among others and is
interested in promoting the
idea of “international
development cooperation”
to replace the one-sided
giving indicated by the
term “assistance.”
 The Danish Foreign Service is a globally
operating organisation.

 Reducing poverty in developing countries is


central to Danish development cooperation
priorities

 They also concentrate women’s


participation in development, the
environment, promotion of democracy and
observation of human rights.
 The Rockefeller Foundation envisions
a world with Smart Globalization –

 A world in which globalization’s


benefits are more widely shared and
social, economic, health, and
environmental challenges are more
easily weathered
 The Ford Foundation supports visionary
leaders and organizations on the frontlines
of social change worldwide.

 Goals are

 Strengthen democratic values


 Reduce poverty and injustice
 Promote international cooperation
 Advance human achievement
 CARE tackles underlying
causes of poverty so that
people can become self-
sufficient. Recognizing that
women and children suffer
disproportionately from
poverty, CARE places
special emphasis on
working with women to
create permanent social
change.
 Women are at the heart of CARE's
community-based efforts to improve
basic education, prevent the spread of
HIV, increase access to clean water and
sanitation, expand economic opportunity
and protect natural resources.

 CARE also delivers emergency aid to


survivors of war and natural disasters,
and helps people rebuild their lives.
 The Indian Red Cross is a voluntary
humanitarian organization having a
network of over 700 branches
throughout the country, providing
relief in times of
disasters/emergencies and
promotes health & care of the
vulnerable people and communities.
 The Indian Red Cross's
programmes are grouped
into four main core areas:
 Promoting humanitarian
principles and values
 Disaster response
 Disaster preparedness
 Health and Care in the
Community.

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