Unit 1.

4: UNO
SPECIALISED AGENCY
RAHI AJABE-ALHAT
 SPECIALISED AGENCIES
World
. Bank

UNHCR UNICEF

FAO UNESCO

WHO ILO
 WORLD BANK

▪ Established in 1944
• Main objectives: World
Mediator
bank
1) help member nations
reconstruct
2) develop by guaranteeing loans Donar
Party Borrower

Tri-party
 UNICEF

originally established in 1946

▪ Was created at the end of World War II
to relieve the suffering of children
• Before known as United Nations
International Children's Emergency Fund
in war torn Europe.
• Now United Nations Children's Fund
▪ Mandate to confines its activities and
Objective operations to projects intended to
• concerned with assisting children and benefit children and youth
adolescents throughout the world
• particularly in devastated areas and ▪ Committed to the notion that the
developing countries survival, protection, and development
of children are universal imperatives,
Important Features
integral to human progress.
• financed through voluntary contributions
from governments and individuals
• Nobel Peace Prize in 1965
 UNESCO

charged with instituting and

United Nations Educational, administering programs for
Scientific and Cultural cooperative, coordinated
Organization action in education, science,
and the arts

is an International Bureau of
promotes education for all
Education (IBE)
 ILO

formulates policies and  Equal tripartite initial preparation,

Education
International Labor Organization

Philosophical basis
programs to improve partnership of labor, further education and
working conditions and business, and recruitment of
employment government, with teachers 
opportunities and representatives of all the conditions of
defines international three on most internal employment and work
labor standards as commissions.
guidelines for the extent of teacher's
governments participation in
decision-making
processes of public and
private educational
authorities that affect
teaching and learning.
 WHO
• World Health Organization
• international directing and coordinating authority for information on
WHO
international health work

• works to promote and coordinate biomedical and health services research

• promotes improved standards of teaching and training in health, medical, and
Educational Mission 
related professions

• seeks to mobilize and strengthen health and education activities at the local,
Global School Health national, regional, and global levels
Initiative
 Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO)

180 member states

An intergovernmental, + one
Created to boost
multilateral member organization
standards of living
organization (the European
Community)=181

meets every two years to Promotion of

determine policy and Council Education in Rural
approve a budget. Area
The United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR)

Helps resettle people who

have left their home countries
due to a fear of persecution

Views on educational
services 

Tries to use familiar

languages and the curriculum
from refugees' home
countries