international organisation

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Role of International
Organisation in Rural
Development
EKTA KAPRI

2. INTRODUCTION
• Large number of International organisations
are engaged in the field of development.
• In order to assist developing countries like
India and speed up their social and Nutritional
progress, United Nation and its specialised
agencies have worked out programme of
technical cooperation.
• Their programmes and activities encompass
such diverse fields as health, nutrition,
education, social welfare, rural re-construction
and rehabilitation.
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3. Cont….
• These organisations give financial and
technical assistance to the member
countries through grants for projects,
appointment of experts, grants for seminars,
conference and trainings etc.
• The United Nation’s Agencies provide
assistance in the areas of:-
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4. Immunisation and
vaccinations
Welfare of the
handicapped
Rural development
Provide work to the
people
Relief and
rehabilitation
Social services
Child care
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5. International
Organisations
actively engaged
in welfare and
development
are:-
World Health
Organisation
Food &
Agriculture
Organisation
United Nations
International
Children
Emergency Funds
United Nation
Educational
Scientific and
Cultural
Organisation
International
Labour
Organisation
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International Fund
for Agricultural
Development

6. 1.World Health Organization (1948)
• The world health organization is a specialised
non-political health agency of the United
Nations.
• The purpose of W.H.O. is to assist the
government to raise the standard of public
health, dissemination of information on
Medical Research.
• W.H.O. is the world’s directing coordinating
authority on all international health work.
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7. Cont….
• It is not the super National Ministry of Health,
but rather a worldwide cooperative, through
which the nations help each other to help
themselves in raising health standards.
• The concept of “ technical cooperation’s is the
fundamental element in the work of W.H.O. in
all its activities.
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8. India has been
its member from
1948
It has assisted India
in establishing
Primary Health
Centers and Sub-
centers in rural areas
It holds meetings in
different part of the
world to which
Indian delegates are
also invited.
It also awards
fellowships in the
medical and health
sciences for the training
of expert’s abroad.
ROLE OF
W.H.O. IN
INDIA
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9. WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
Its structure comprises of:-
•World Health Assembly
•Executive Board
•Secretariat
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10. WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
FUNCTION PROJECTS
• Planning of health activities
and training .
• Assistance of medical research
and give information of
medical institutes.
• Control of epidemic disease
and infectious disease.
• Provides aid to country
suffering from epidemic
diseases.
• Standardization of hormones,
vaccines, antibiotics and drugs
to quality control.
• Control of malaria, small
pox and chicken pox.
• Improvement in
environment sanitation.
• Training of Health workers
• Providing economic and
technical aid
• Fellowship to public health
workers
• Seminars and orientation
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11. 2.FAO
Food and Agricultural Organization
• Origin- 1945
• Headquarter- Rome
• Membership- 197 nations
• First United Nation’s Organization's
specialized agency created to look after several
areas of World Cooperation’s

12. Food and Agricultural Organization
The idea of an international organization for food and agriculture
emerged in the late 19th century, by the US agriculturalist and
activist David Lubin.
FAO is composed of seven department:
1. Administration and finance
2. Agriculture and consumer protection
3. Economic and social development
4. Fisheries and aquaculture
5. Forestry
6. Natural resource management and environment
7. Technical cooperation

13. Food and Agricultural Organisation
Our three main goals are:
• the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition;
• the elimination of poverty and the driving forward
of economic and social progress for all
• the sustainable management and utilization of
natural resources, including land, water, air, climate
and genetic resources for the benefit of present and
future generation.
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14. Food and Agricultural Organisation
• Raise level of nutrition and standard of living.
• To improve in distribution and production of
foods and agriculture, farm, forestry and fishery.
• To improve rural condition of rural people.
• Provide technical assistance in Nutrition and
Food management.
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15. Role of Food
and
Agricultural
Organisation
FAO plays an important part in increasing
food production and taking measures aimed
at development of rural families with
particular reference to Women and
Children.
Besides its own activities
FAO also work in close
collaboration with other
specialized agencies of the
United Nations like
UNESCO, UNDP and
UNICEF.
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16. strategic objectives
• Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and
malnutrition
• Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more
productive and sustainable
• Reduce rural poverty
• Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and
food systems
• Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats
and crises

17. • UNICEF was created by the United Nations General
Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide
emergency food and healthcare to children in
countries that had been devastated by World War
II.
• UNICEF became a permanent part of the United
Nations System and its name was shortened from
the original United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund.
• UNICEF is an intergovernmental organization (IGO)
and thus is accountable to those governments.
• Headquarter – New York
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18. Objectives of UNICEF
• Concern exclusively with the needs & problems of
children.
• Work in close collaboration with other agencies on
urgent problems such as malaria, T.B, diseases.
• Provides assistance to countries for such fields as
– maternal and child health, nutrition,
– environmental sanitation (especially the provision of
water supplies to rural communities),
– health centers and health education and programmes
which would directly or indirectly benefit child health.
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19. • To develop coordinative and comprehensive
national programmes and give training in
applied nutrition.
• Protective foods to pregnant and lactating
mothers and pre-school children.
• Orientation and training facilities for staff of
institution.
• Increase in production and preservation of
protective foods.

20. UNICEF in INDIA
• The organization began its work in India in
1949 with three staff members and
established an office in Delhi three years
later. Currently, it advocates for the rights of
India’s children in 16 states.
India is home to the largest number of
children in the world with nearly 40 per cent
of its estimated 1.2 billion population under
the age of 18.

21. Main Programmes Assisted by the UNICEF in
India are
• 1949-India’s first Penicillin Plant Established
• 1954 -The White Revolution: A beginning
• 1954 -India’s first DDT Plant Established
• 1960 - Science teaching
• 1970 -The Water Revolution
• 1975 - Integrated Child Development Services
• 1977 -Intensive Development Projects (IDP)
• 1989- Mahila Samakhya –Education for women’s equality
• 2001 -Dular Project 1989- Mahila Samakhya –Education for
women’s equality
• 2001 -Dular Project and Gujarat Earthquake
• 2004 - Tsunami relief
• 2011 - Census support
• 2012–Polio Campaign
• 2014 – India Newborn Action Plan launched

22. Millennium Development Goals
• In September 2000, 189 countries including India signed the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing to
eradicating extreme poverty in all its forms by 2015.
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include 8 goals, 21
targets and 60 indicators for measuring progress in the 15 years
between 1990 and 2015, when the goals are expected to be met.
• The Millennium Development Goals for 2015
• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

23. • Production of nutritive food through block nurseries.
• Nutrition education
• Drinking water supply
• Sanitation
• Income generating activities for women
• Community centre buildings
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Development projects

24. • Started on= 1965
• Head quarter= New York
• UNDP works in more than 170 countries and
territories, helping to achieve the eradication of
poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and
exclusion. We help countries to develop policies,
leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional
capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain
development results.

25. Organizational structure

26. • It also provides training of senior manpower in
key technical and management areas.
• UNDP concentrate on building national
capacity for development.
• It provides supporting income generating
projects especially for women. It aims at
improving quality life for the least privileged.
• It also assist research on crop improvement
techniques.
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27. Cont….
• UNDP assistance supplements and
upgrades India’s own considerable
technical capacities and also aims at
technological up gradation of production
processes.
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28. UNDP focuses on helping countries build and
share solutions in three main areas:
Sustainable development
Democratic governance and peace building
Climate and disaster resilience
In all our activities, we encourage the protection
of human rights and the empowerment of
women, minorities and the poorest and most
vulnerable.

29. • The International Labour Organization (ILO)
was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of
Versailles that ended World War I.
• ILO Headquarters are located in Geneva.
• The Labour Commission was chaired by the
head of the American Federation of Labour
and was composed of delegates from nine
countries: Belgium, Cuba, Czechoslovakia,
France, Italy, Japan, Poland, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
5. International Labour organization(ILO)

30. The objectives of the ILO are:
A. Promote and realize standards and fundamental
principles and rights at work.
B. Generate greater opportunities for women and men
to secure decent employment and income.
C. Improve the coverage and effectiveness of social
protection for all.
D. Reinforce tripartism and mediate negotiation,
consultation and exchange of information between,
the three stakeholders on issues of common interest.
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31. The areas of concern outlined by the ILO are:
• Regulation of working hours
• Regulation of labour supply
• Protection of workers who are ill or injured due to
work
• Protection of children, adolescents and women
• Provisions for pension and social security
• Up-holding the principle that pay should equal the
value of the work
• Up-holding the principle of freedom of association
• Organization of technical and vocational training to
meet labour demands

32. India, a Founding Member of the ILO, has been a
permanent member of the ILO Governing
Body since 1922. The first ILO Office in India
started in 1928.
• It has a two-directional focus for socio-
economic development:
overall strategies
ground-level approaches

33. • ILO's current portfolio in India centers around
child labour, preventing family indebtedness
employment, skills, integrated approaches for
local socio-economic development and
livelihoods promotion, green jobs, value-
addition into national programmes, micro and
small enterprises, social security, HIV/AIDS,
migration, industrial relations, dealing with
the effects of globalization, productivity and
competitiveness, etc.

34. International labour organisation
• To contribute to the establishment of lasting peace by
promoting social justice.
• Improve through International action, labour
conditions and living standards.
• To promote economic and social stability.
There is a close collaboration
between ILO and WHO in the field
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35. 6. International Fund for Agricultural
Development
• International Fund for Agricultural Development.
• It was established as an international financial institution
in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World
Food Conference.
Goal:
• IFAD's goal is to empower poor rural women and men in
developing countries to achieve higher incomes and
improved food security.

36. Objectives:
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a specialized
agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in
developing countries.
• IFAD seeks to ensure that poor rural people have better access to,
and the skills and organization they need to take advantage of.
• Natural resources, especially secure access to land and water, and
improved natural resource management and conservation
practices
• Improved agricultural technologies and effective production
services
• A broad range of financial services
• Transparent and competitive markets for agricultural inputs and
produce
• Opportunities for rural off-farm employment and enterprise
development
• Local and national policy and programming

37. IFAD's strategy in India
• IFAD emphasizes the importance of strengthening people's
capacities to establish and manage their own institutions. It
supports self-help groups, community institutions and village
development associations in tribal and non-tribal areas that work in
synergy with local self-governments.
• Broadly in line with the current targeting strategy, the new Country
Strategic Opportunities Programme (COSOP), 2010-2015 will
strengthen people's organizations and service providers to empower
poor rural people and facilitate their access to markets, services and
central and state government-funded development schemes.
The new COSOP in particular will focus on:
• promoting inclusive growth

38. Contt…….
• doubling the growth rate of the agriculture sector
• fighting rural poverty by enhancing rural employment
and livelihood opportunities
• increasing access to agricultural technologies and
natural resources
• increasing access to financial services and value chains
• sharing knowledge and learning on poverty reduction
and nutritional security, with particular focus on tribal
communities, smallholder farming households,
landless people, women and unemployed youth.

39. PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES
 Asia & the Pacific Region Asian Project Management Support Programme
(APMAS)
 Convergence of Agricultural Interventions in Maharashtra's Distressed
Districts Programme (C-AIM)
 CURE: Enabling Poor Rice Farmers to improve Livelihoods and Overcome
Poverty in South and South-East Asia through the Consortium for
Unfavourable Rice Environments (IRRI-1108)
 First Asia Regional Gathering of Pastoralist Women in Gujarat (MARAG-1130)
 Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh Tribal Development Programme (JTDP)
 Jharkhand Tribal Empowerment Livelihoods Project (JTELP)
 Korea Supplementary Fund Projects - Technology as Development Solution:
Use of ICT to Improve Livelihoods of the Poorest in Remote Rural Areas (KSF-
ICT)
 Meghalaya Livelihoods Improvement Project in the Himalayas (MLIPH)
 North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project for Upland
Areas (NERCORMPII)

40. Conclusion
• Inter-government agencies have improved health &
other social conditions of population by providing
health and nutritional education, vaccination,
immunisation, supplementary foods and employment
opportunities.
• WHO has started a major project on poliomyelitis to
root out polio from world.
• Major problem in front of these organisations is grant,
because population is very large which requires these
services.
• UNICEF with the help of ILO is trying to stop child
labour by stressing on compulsory primary education
for all.
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