Links - International Development Organizations
UN Agencies in Development (adapted from J.D. Sachs, The End of Poverty, 2005)
Organization |
Description |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Provides assistance to developing countries on finance and budgetary issues and temporary financial assistance to help ease macroeconomic adjustments. |
| World Bank | Provides loans and grants, policy advice, and technical assistance to help low and middle-income countries fight poverty. |
| Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Leads fight on hunger, providing policy advice and technical assistance. |
| International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) | Finances agricultural development projects to increase food production and improve nutrition. |
| United Nations Development Program (UNDP) | Serves as the UN's global development network with programs to strengthen democratic governance in developing countries, fight poverty, improve health and education. |
| United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) | Helps countries care for the environment through projects and technical support. |
| United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) | Improves the living conditions of people and promotes global prosperity through offering tailor-made solutions for the sustainable industrial development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition. |
| United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-HABITAT) | Promotes socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. |
| United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | Helps countries establish population and reproductive health programs. |
| United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | Promotes education, health and child protection to improve children's lives. |
| World Food Program (WFP) | Provides food aid to meet emergency needs (refugees, internally displaced people, victims of natural disasters) and to support economic and social development. |
| World Health Organization (WHO) | Promotes health for all people, including complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. |
Some key Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Finance Institutions
| Organization | Description |
| Oxfam | Oxfam is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. |
| African Development Bank | The premier financial development institution of Africa, dedicated to combating poverty and improving the lives of people of the continent and engaged in the task of mobilizing resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries. |
| Asian Development Bank | A multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1966, we are now owned by 64 members, mostly from the region. |
| Rotary International | Worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 167 countries. |
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