INTERNATIONAL
CHILD WELFARE
AGENCIES

W H A T I S A
CHILD WELFARE
A G E N C Y ?

CHILD WELFARE AGENCY AN ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT
RESPONSIBLE FOR SOCIAL WORK CONCERNED WITH THE
WELFARE AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF CHILDREN

PURPOSES
 To education of children
 To promote and conduct research
 To help training and education of teachers
 To provide health support for children
 To ensuring safety of child
 To strengthening families to successfully care for their children

UNITED NATION AGENCIES
1. WHO ( world health organisation)
2. UNICEF (united nations international children emergency fund)
3. FAO (food and agricultural organisation)
4. ILO (international labour organisation)
5. WFP (world food programme)
6. UNESCO (united nations educational scientific and cultural
organisation)
7. USAID (united state agency for international development)
8. UNDP (united nations development programme)
9. UNFPA (united nation fund for population activities)

NON GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
1. AMI (association of montessori international)
2. CRS (catholic relief services)
3. CARE ( cooperative for american relief everywhere )
4. ICUW ( international union for child welfare)
5. MMF (meals for millions fund )
6. SCF (save children fund)

1.
WORLD HEALTH
ORGANISATION
(WHO)

• Established on 7th April 1948
• It Headquarter is at Geneva

• Global health matter
• Shapping the health research agent
• Setting notes and standard
• Articulating evidence based policy option
• Providing technical support to country
• Monitoring and assessing the health trends

• Prevent and controll specific disease
• Development of comprehensive health service
• Family health
• Environmental health
• World health statistics
• Biomedical research

IN CHILD WELFARE

IN CHILD WELFARE
• National polio surveillance project
• Routine immunization
• Integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness
• Integrated disease surveillance project
• RNTCP
• NACP
• Leprosy elemination
• National vetorborn disease controll programme
• Integrated prevention and controll of noncommunicable diseases

2.
UNITED NATIONS
INTERNATIONAL
CHILDREN’S EMERGENCY
FUND(UNICEF)

• Estblished in 1946
• Headquarters Newyork
• Active in morethan 190 countries
• South central asia regional office located in Newdelhi

MILESTONES
• 1946 – Focus on food to europe
• 1953 – UNICEF become a permanent organisation
• 1959 - Declaration of the rights to the children
• 1961 - Education
• 1989 - Convention of rights of the child

• Infant and child feeding ( promote breast feeding)
• Delivering vital micronutrients
• Virtual elemination of VitA and Iodine def
• Promoting maternal nutrition preventing low birth weight
• Monitoring the infant growth rate
• Provide nutrition in emergency young children
• Nutrition and HIV prevention
• Child survival and development & protection
• Basic education and gender equality& rights

FOOD AND
AGRICULTURAL
ORGANISATION(FAO)

• Established in 1945
• Headquarters in Rome
• FAO has 191 members nations

• To help nation to raise their living
standard
• To help to improve
farming,forestry,and fisheries
• Ensuring nutrition and food
security for all

IN CHILD WELFARE
FAO + ILO

INTERNATIONAL
LABOUR
ORGANISATION (ILO)

• Established in 1919
• Headquarters Geneva

AIM
Promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
oppurtunities,enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on
work related issues
ILO’s International Programme on Elimination of Childlabour
(IPEC) was created in1992 with overall goal of the progressive
elimination of child labour

WORLD FOOD
PROGRAMME(WFP)

• Established on 1961
• Headquarters ROME

OBJECTIVES
• Save life and protect livelihood in emergency
• Support food security and nutrition and build livelihood in fragile
settings and following emegency
• Reduce risk and enable people , communitites and countries to
meet their own food and nutritional needs
• Fight micronutrient deficiency
• Reduce child mortality
• Reduc euder nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of
hunger

UNITED NATIONS
EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC
AND CULTURAL
ORGANISATION(UNESCO)

• Established on 1945
• Headquarters in Paris

• Helps to develop textbook and promotion and teaching of
national languages to the children of the migrant workers
• Training of staff for preschool children and assist project to
setup production of children’s book and libraries

UNITED STATES
AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT (USAID)

• Established on Nov 1961
• Headquarters in Washington
• Work in over 100 countries

SERVICES
• Promote economic prosperity
• Strengthen democracy and good governanace
• Protect humanrights
• Improve global health
• Advance food security and agriculture
• Further eduction
• Help societies prevent and recover from conflict or disaster

IN INDIA

UNITED NATIONS
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME (UNDP)

• Established on 1966
• Headquarters Newyork
• Work with 177 coutries

WORKING AREA
• Povety reduction
• Crisis prevention and recovery
• Environment and energy protection
• Work closly with NACP in india
• Human development
• Women empowerment

UNITED NATION FUND
FOR POPULATION
ACTIVITIES(UNFPA)

• Established on 1969
• Headquarters Newyork

MISSION
• Delivers a world where every pregnancy is wanted ,every birth is
safe , every young potential is fullfilled
• RCH 2,NACP3,NRHM in india

NONGOVERNMENTAL
AGENCIES

NON GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
1. AMI (association of montessori international)
2. CRS (catholic relief services)
3. CARE ( cooperative for american relief everywhere )
4. ICUW ( international union for child welfare)
5. MMF (meals for millions fund )
6. SCF (save children fund)