NGO AND

INTERNATIONAL
HEALTH AGENCIES

Nothing on earth is more international than disease

HEALTH AGENCY
TYPES OF HEALTH AGENCIES
• International agencies
• Governmental agencies
• Bilateral agencies
• Nongovernment organizations and donor agencies
• Voluntary agencies
TYPES OF INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
Multilateral agencies Bilateral agencies NGOs and other donor agencies

• WHO • USAID • International red cross

• UNICEF • Colombo plan • The Rockefeller Foundation
• UNDP • SIDA • Ford Foundation
• WB • DANIDA • Cooperative for Assistance
• FAO and Relief everywhere
• ILO • Aga Khan Foundation
• UNFPA • Bill and Melinda Gates
• UNAIDS Foundation
• UNHCR
• UNFDAC
NGO [NON
GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATION]
NGO
• NGOs have been defined by world bank as “private organizations that pursue activities to relieve
suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services
or undertake community development”.

• NGOs are contributing in fund raising, human resource development, capacity building, generation
and utilization of knowledge, resource mobilization and research activities pertaining to public
health.
 I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O M M I T T E E O F R E D
CROSS
• The red cross is a non-political non-official international humanitarian
organization devoted to the service of mankind in peace and war.
Functions:
 Helping people during war and respond to disaster in conflict zones.
 Addressing sexual violence
 Building respect for law
 Economic security
 Enabling people with disability
 Helping detainee, humanitarian diplomacy
 Restoring family link, health care in danger.
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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
• It is a philanthropic organization with a purpose of promoting well being of mankind throughout the world.
Functions:
 In medical, health and population sciences: providing grants-in-aid for development of teachers and research workers
 Agricultural and natural sciences
 Social disciplines
 International relationships
 It provides assistance to research institutes such as the AIIMS
 Funding for enhancement of farming, family planning and establishment of training and teaching centres including
medical teaching in rural areas.
WHO
• It is a multilateral agency, jointly work with the system of United Nation to achieve
national priorities and improving health outcome.
• The WHO is responsible for conducting worldwide health surveys.
• It prepares world health report.

 Objective: The prime objective of the WHO shall be the attainment by all peoples
of the highest possible level of health.
• Member states: 194
• Headquarters: Geneva
• Country offices: 150
• Staff: more than 7000
• More than 700 institutions are supporting WHO’s work
• UN agencies, donors, foundations, NGOs and the private sector has close relationship with WHO.
ORGANIZATION OF WHO

The world health

assembly

WHO
The executive
board

The secretariat
THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
• Delegates representing from all the member states are part of health assembly

• Functions:
 It is the governing body
 Determines all the policies of organization
 Appointment of director-general
EXECUTIVE BOARD
• Consists of 34 members
• Tenure of members is 3 years
Functions:
 Execute the policies and decisions taken by health assembly
 To accomplish the functions assigned by health assembly
 Submission of plans and programs to health assembly
 To make agenda of summits of health assembly
 To take urgent measures within the functions and financial resources of the
organization to deal with events which necessitate immediate action.
THE SECRETARIAT
• It comprises of technical and administrative staff
• Director general is head of the secretariat.
• Staff is appointed by director general.
Functions:
 To provide support to member states for planning national health programs
 Preparation of financial report and budget estimates of the organization.
FUNCTIONS OF WHO
U N I T E D N AT I O N S I N T E R N AT I O N A L C H I L D R E N ’ S E M E R G E N C Y F U N D
[ U N I T E D N AT I O N S C H I L D R E N ’ S F U N D ]

• Established on 11th December 1946, by United Nations general assembly to deliver emergency
food, clothing and to help children damaged by world war.
• Works in 190 countries
• Head quarters: New York City, United states.
FUNCTIONS
• Child health:

• Child nutrition:
 Applied nutrition programs
• Family and child welfare:
• Education [formal and non-formal]:
GOBI-FFF PROGRAM

Immunization
Breast Female
feeding education

Oral rehydration Family planning

Growth GOBI Food problems

monitoring
-FFF
OTHER INTERNATIONAL
HEALTH AGENCIES
 UNFPA:
 Provides funding to national level schemes
 Development of health and family welfare
infrastructure
 Proving funds for manufacture of contraceptives,
population education programmes.

UNDP:
 Its objective is to help poor countries develop
their human and natural resources more
efficiently.

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 FAO:
 Tohelp nations rise living
standards
 To improve nutrition of people of
all coutries
 Toincrease the efficiency of
farming, forestry and fisheries
 Tobetter the condition of rural
people for productive work

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ILO: [International Labour
Organization]
Its objectives are to
 To contribute to the establishment of lasting
peace by promoting social justice
 To improve, through international action,
labour conditions and living standards
 To promote economic and social stability.

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World bank:
It was built with purpose of helping the less
developed countries to raise their living
standards.

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BILATERAL AGENCIES
USAID

• Promotes health and stability globally

• Works for empowerment of the women and
girls and provides humanitarian assistance.
• Assist for medical and nursing education,
health education, sanitation, water supply,
nutrition, family planning, control of
communicable diseases and agricultural
programs.

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• The colombo plan

• SIDA

• DANIDA