United NationsUnited Nations

Specialised AgenciesSpecialised Agencies

• In order to meet its aims the UN has a number of specialised agencies , each of which has specialised skills and staff to meet the needs of developing countries.

• WHO - World Health Organisation• FAO -Food and Agricultural Organisation• UNICEF- UN International Children’s

Emergency Fund• UNESCO -UN Education, Scientific and

Cultural Organisation• UNHCR - UN High Commission for

Refugees

World Health World Health OrganisationOrganisation

• This organisation promotes good health and good medical facilities.

• What it does• Helps governments set up health facilities

• Trains health professionals

• Develops primary health care at a local level

• Organises mass immunisation programmes.

UNESCOUNESCO• This organisation’s aim is to develop education in

its broadest sense. Not just improving literacy and numeracy but also promotes the arts and sciences.

• Helps governments establish compulsory education systems

• Sends advisers to create quality education

• Works to save monuments and works of art• encourages and promotes cultural ,artistic and

musical exchanges amongst member states.

UNICEFUNICEF• Its aim is to help children and their mothers

when they are in need• Organises emergency relief after a disaster• Works with WHO to set up medical facilities and

organises mass immunisation programmes.• School projects to reduce the level of illiteracy• Projects to help mothers cope with their children

including safe motherhood and breast feeding campaigns.

Food and Agricultural Food and Agricultural OrganisationOrganisation

• Aim is to help governments train people to work the land efficiently; using appropriate technology

• Research better farming methods.• Supplying experts• Irrigation and fertilisation schemes.

UNHCRUNHCR• This organisation works with those

who are displaced from their own homeland because of natural disaster or civil war.

• They set up camps and with the other agencies provide shelter food and emergency healthcare.