United Nations organisations
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United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI)
The United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI) hosts a web portal for UN agencies and NGOs working in Iraq.
World Health Organization (WHO) - Jordan
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialised agency for health (established in 1948) aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is being defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social...
World Health Organization (WHO) - Bahrain
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialised agency for health (established in 1948) aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is being defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social...
Trade Finance: Make it work for women
Trade Finance: Make it work for women, a news article, reports that women make up 70% of the world's poor, and it is important that they be given access to finance, which is critical to business success. The global financial crisis exacerbates an already dissatisfactory situation of trade financing...
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the poor
Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the Poor, an issue of Development Outreach published by the World Bank Institute, discusses how companies can operate profitably in emerging market economies, while enhancing the well-being of the poor by nurturing them as producers and consumers. The...
World Bank calls for Africa fund
World Bank calls for Africa fund, a news article, reports that the World Bank has urged developed countries to create a fund to help African economies build the infrastructure they need to keep growing. The World Bank warned that the global economic meltdown was becoming an employment crisis and...
Aid For Trade Second Global Review: Programme
Aid For Trade Second Global Review: Programme, an audio/visual summary, provides the proceedings of this conference which focused upon maintaining the momentum of Aid for Trade mandate, agreed at the WTO's Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in 2005. This mandate aims to help developing countries, and...
Top Leaders Pledge to Help Poor Economies to Reap Benefits from Global Trade
Top Leaders Pledge to Help Poor Economies to Reap Benefits from Global Trade a WTO/ADB news release, reports that top global and regional financial officials at a 2007 conference pledged to help small and weak states in Asia and the Pacific build and strengthen capacity to benefit from trade and...
Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study
Free trade helps reduce poverty, says new WTO secretariat study, a WTO news article published in 2000, reports a study published by WTO Secretariat that finds that trade liberalisation helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones and that this faster economic growth helps to alleviate poverty.
Millennium Development Goals Report 2008
Millennium Development Goals Report 2008 is a report based on a master set of data that has been compiled by an Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to the wishes of the General Assembly...
WTO Director-General Mike Moore calls for increased trade liberalisation to help finance development
WTO Director-General Mike Moore calls for increased trade liberalisation to help finance development, a news article, reports that the then WTO Director-General Mike Moore said trade liberalisation can make a huge contribution to the generation of resources for the financing of development. But Mr...
Guidelines on Cooperation between the United Nations and the Business Community
The Guidelines on Cooperation between the United Nations and the Business Community provide information on the background of UN-business partnerships, their purpose and rationality, standards for choosing a partner, the general principles of a partnership, the use of the UN name and emblem, the...
Making Agricultural Trade Reform Work for the Poor
Making Agricultural Trade Reform Work for the Poor, a position paper of the International Food&Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), brings together what is known about the link between agricultural trade reform and poverty alleviation, and about how developing countries can successfully...
UNOSAT Satellite imagery for all
UNOSAT is a United Nations programme created to provide the international community and developing countries with enhanced access to satellite imagery and Geographic Information System (GIS) services. These tools are used mainly in humanitarian relief, disaster prevention and post crisis...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Country-by-country
This United Nations organisation provides a country-by-country guide to the latest statistical data on poverty indicators. Statistics are given under topics such as education, nutrition, mortality, and water and sanitation. All the data comes from the appropriate United Nations agency whenever...
Directory of UN Agencies in Morocco
This site provides a directory of and information about all UN agencies in Morocco.
United Nations Common Supply Database (UNCSD)
The UNCSD is a registry of suppliers available to all UN and World Bank procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNOPS and WFP. The United Nations represents a global market of approximately USD 4.6 billion annually for all types of goods and services. The...
UN rapporteur and WTO head debate the impact of trade on hunger
UN rapporteur and WTO head debate the impact of trade on hunger, a news article, reports on the debate on the impact of trade on hunger between UN rapporteur and WTO head. Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, argued that agricultural trade liberalisation hampers...
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples, a series of web pages, details UNICEF's corporate partnerships with a range of companies.
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: Policy Challenges from Latin America
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: Policy Challenges from Latin America, a WTO conference session abstract, discusses major policy challenges relevant to creating positive effects of trade liberalization on development and particularly on making trade pro-poor. The panellists shared views on the...