1. Power Point
Lesson for
Class--X
United Nations By
Kirti Chaturvedi

2. U N I C E F U N D P U N E S C O I L O W H O
Agencies Of U. N. O.
U N I C E F
U N D P
U N E S C O
I L O
W H O I

3. Purpose of the U N Agencies
“ to promote social progress and better
standards of life in larger freedom.”
The UN is engaged in work that
touches every aspect of people’s lives
---alleviation of poverty, education, health, agricultural development, human rights, worker’s rights and protection of environment
The UNO has 18 Specialized Agencies
and 14 Major Progammes and Funds
for social and economic development
as well as achieve human welfare.

4. Primary Health Care Basic Education Sanitation Nutrition
Women’s development
Community Progamme
Sanitation
Nutrition

5. United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Established in
1946
Headquarters at
New York

6. Functions of UNICEF
To assist countries in providing protective food like milk, meat, fish, fats
etc. to the children and to train nutritionists.
To take care of the women and pregnant mothers.
To provide funds for training of health and sanitation workers and crech
workers.
To undertake Child immunization projects in order to prevent diseases.
To provide consultancy service, supply medicine and equipments and to
conduct research in the areas of Child development progammes, and
also to monitor these.
To get clean drinking water in villages; it supplies pumps and pipes to the
countries.

7. To support progammes to prevent trafficking in Women and Children, and
to prevent crime by them and against them.
To supply paper to publish literature relating to Child.
To provide instant help to Children and Women in a natural disaster like
earth-quake or outbreak of an epidemic.
To prevent exploitation of the Child and to protect him against neglect
and abuse.

8. U.N.E.S.C.O
Headquarters
Paris
Established in 1946

9. The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security
in the world by promoting collaboration among nation through
Education
Science
Culture
Communication

10. Functions of UNESCO
To promote education among children and adults and to work for universal
primary education.
To give financial assistance for the education of the disabled children,
the girl child and women.
To give advice and expert assistance in school building construction;
preparation of courses of study and text-books.
To provide fellowship and study-grants to teachers and to encourage them
to do research and higher learning in theories and methods of teaching
and learning.
To organize book-fairs at national and International level.
To develop good libraries with financial help and supply of books and to
eradicate illiteracy.

11. To promote research in mathematics, geology, physics, oceanography,
engineering and technology in developing countries.
To organize regional and world conferences and bring together scientists,
engineers, technologists who have common interests.
To provide information to all countries about progress in science through
Bulletins, exhibitions and journals. “Courier” is the official magazine
of UNSECO.
To encourage the study of social sciences with special reference to study
of topics like factors causing violence and conflict, violation of human
rights, the future of human race, methods of conflict- resolution and
tolerance-promotion techniques.
To help member-states to preserve their cultural heritage, encourage
translation of rare manuscripts, to protect monuments of historic or artistic
interest.
To encourage cultural exchange, it gives travel-grants to artists and writers.

12. To undertake projects in the field of mass-Communication like Radio,
Television, setting up of News Agencies etc.
To encourage countries to buy books from other countries under
its scheme of Book-coupons.
To promote artistic creation in literature and fine arts.
To spread and distribute knowledge about human rights. ,

13. World Health Organization

14. Objective of W.H.O. highest possible level of health.
The attainment by all people of the
highest possible level of health.
A complete well being.
Established on 7th April 1948
7th April is celebrated as World Health Day
every year.
Headquarters
Geneva---Switzerland

15. Functions of WHO
To promote and co-ordinate research in the field of Health, to finance
research projects in their priority areas, namely communicable diseases,
Mother’s and child’s health, mental health. It also encourages research
on diseases like cancer, blindness, diabetes and heart attacks or heart
ailments.
To set International standards for food, water, biological & pharmaceutical
products such as drugs, medicines and vaccines.
To bring about improvement in standards of nutrition, housing, sanitation,
work condition and environmental hygiene.
To assist Governments ( on their request ) to provide safe drinking water
to nations of the world.

16. To fight diseases throughout the world, to prevent their spread at the
source. It launched progamme to immunise children against six major
diseases---Measles, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Tuberculosis Polio and
Whooping Cough.
To serve as a major source of medical and scientific information, it has
built a splendid library on Medical Sciences at Geneva.
It also publishes an illustrated magazine to inform people about the state
of health programme in the world.
It organises Seminars , Conferences and Workshops to train personals in
their respective areas of specialisation.

17. Thank You
Presented by
Mrs. Kirti Chaturvedi