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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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 Microcredit meeting
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
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
Peace Corps • Peace Corps • Volunteers work in developing countries • Promote: • Education • Agriculture • Health, HIV/AIDS • Business • International understanding
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
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
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
Relief Organizations • Oxfam International • Rotary International • Heifer International • Freedom from Hunger • CARE • Save The Children
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 in Sudan
Hunger Relief Progress Average Annual Rate of Change of GDP 1975-97 (green=negative change, yellow-->red higher rates)
U.S. Foreign Aid • U.S. gave $15 billion (2002) • Largest Donor in world • Least generous based on capacity to give (GNP) • < 1% Federal Budget • Majority think U.S. Aid is 20X more • 2004: U.S. allocated $1billion to Millennium Challenge Grant • 2004: U.S. allocated $2.4 billion to combat AIDS/HIV
Worldwide HIV/AIDS Relief • 1997-2006 • U.S. donated $18 billion • 2007 • U.S. pledges additional $30 Billion • Treatment of 2.5 million people Bush 2007