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Relief & Development Organizations International
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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U.S. Governmental Agencies
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Peace Corps –Volunteers work in developing countries –Promote: Education Agriculture Health, HIV/AIDS Business International understanding
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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
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Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
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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
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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
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Relief Organizations Oxfam International Rotary International Heifer International Freedom from Hunger CARE Save The Children
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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
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Hunger Relief Progress
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Hunger relief Progress
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Hunger Relief Progress Average Annual Rate of Change of GDP 1975-97 (green=negative change, yellow-->red higher rates)
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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
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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
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