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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Morocco
UNICEF is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide, upholding the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The priorities of the programme are children's health, education, equality and...
World Health Organization (WHO) - Tajikistan
WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Uzbekistan
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
World Food Programme (WFP) - Iraq
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...
World Health Organisation (WHO) Brazil
The World Health Organisation, the United Nations' specialised agency for health, was established in 1948. The organisation aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution is "the attainment by all...
Sierra Leone Information System (SLIS)
Sierra Leone Information System (SLIS) was established to implement a simple and robust management information system that could draw primarily on data already collected by the humanitarian community and the Government. SLIS's aim is to develop sustainable solutions which are primarily geared...
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG Africa Steering Group
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Recommendations of the MDG Africa Steering Group, a report by the MDG Africa Steering Group, provides practical steps, strategies and programmes, with costings, needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. This report was...
Guiding Principles on Internally Displaced Persons
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement restate and compile human rights and humanitarian law relevant to internally displaced persons.
Partnering for Development - Making it Happen
Partnering for Development - Making it Happen, a booklet, builds on the report from the Commission on the Private Sector and Development and looks at three areas of engagement: the development of commercially sustainable business models that can be expanded and replicated; the reform of laws,...
Key issues in emergency needs assessment
Over 50 representatives from governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs, regional bodies, research institutes and consultancy firms gathered at WFP's Rome headquarters in October 2003 for the third technical consultation on strengthening emergency needs assessments. A series of technical workshops...