United Nations Specialised Agencies

UNICEF• United Nations International Children’s

Emergency Fund• Emergency aid (e.g. wars, famines,

natural disasters etc.)• Food, medicine, shelter, qualified teams• Short-term

FAO• Food and Agricultural Organisation• Long-term development aim of

improving food production• Help African countries to help

themselves• Irrigation projects in Sudan, expert

training for Ethiopian farmers, higher quality seeds to increase crops in Chad etc.

WHO• World Health Organisation• Long-term development aim of

improving health standards• Immunisation, birth control, health

education• Setting up medical centres in Burkina

Faso, immunisation programmes for Rwandan refugees, birth control projects in Nigeria etc.

UNESCO• United Nations Educational, Scientific

and Cultural Organisation• Long-term development aim of

improving educational standards• Increasing employment opportunities by

raising literacy rates• Providing primary education in Somalia,

adult literacy courses in Niger, colleges for adults in Ghana

‘REAL AID’• Good aid, not ‘tied’, in long-term interests

of developing country rather than the donor

• If it is not helping African countries to become more self-sufficient it is not real aid

• Improving water supplies to villages, health care facilities, infrastructure (roads, communications, electric supplies) etc.