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====World Health Organization==== | ====World Health Organization==== | ||
| - | + | The World Health Organization is an agency of the United Nations founded in 1948. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. | |
=====Goals===== | =====Goals===== | ||
| + | The WHO aims to promote technical cooperation for health among nations, carry out programs to control and eradicate disease, and strive to improve the quality of human life. To reach its goals, the WHO has adopted the following agenda- | ||
| + | 1. Promoting development | ||
| + | 2. Fostering health security | ||
| + | 3. Strengthening health systems | ||
| + | 4. Harnessing research, information and evidence | ||
| + | 5. Enhancing partnerships | ||
| + | 6. Improving performance | ||
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=====Strengths & Expertise===== | =====Strengths & Expertise===== | ||
=====Example projects===== | =====Example projects===== | ||
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Stakeholders
TU Delft
courses of relevance: Internationalization (ID4050)
Bachelor
Minor International entrepreneurship and development
- Social Entrepreneurship (WM0565TU, Esther Blom)
- Awareness of Cultural Differences (SPM9237, Martin de Jong)
- Technology and Global Development (WM0902TU, Wim Ravensteijn)
- Collaborative Business Design (IO3813, Frido Smulders)
- History of Technology (WM0401TU, Wim Ravensteijn)
- Casestudy International Entrepreneurship & Development (WM0564TU, Esther Blom )
Electives
- History of Technology & Technology and Global Development (WM0930TU, Wim Ravensteijn)
- Communicative interaction: Moral aspects of teamwork (WM0306TU, Otto Kroesen)
- Intercultural internship (WM0927TU, Otto Kroesen)
- De onderneming in sociologisch perspectief (WM0404TU)
- Duurzaam ondernemen (WM0915TN)
- Product Development en Innovatie(IO3803)
- Communicative Interaction (WM0306TU)
- Innovatiemanagement (WM0625TU)
- Civiele Techniek in ontwikkelingssamenwerking (CT5560)
- De essentie van technologisch Ondernemersschap (WM0560TU)
- Finance for Entrepreneurs (WB3482)
- Managing Start-ups (WM0926TU)
- Introduction to business marketing (IO3806)
Master
IDP / PAP / Graduation Project / Internship
- Internationalisation (ID4250)
Students
Students for Sustainability
Survey among students interested in BoP
NGOs
First of all is important define the concept of non-governmental organization (NGO), we are using two different definitions. The first concept following the United Nations Organization (UN) definition and the other address the general concept.
According to the United Nations Organization, a Non Governmental Organization is: “is a not-for-profit, voluntary citizens’ group, which is organized on a local, national or international level to address issues in support of the public good. Task-oriented and made up of people with common interests, NGOs perform a variety of services and humanitarian functions, bring citizens’ concerns to governments, monitor policy and programme implementation, and encourage participation of civil society stakeholders at the community level. They provide analysis and expertise, serve as early warning mechanisms, and help monitor and implement international agreements. Some are organized around specific issues, such as human rights, the environment or health. Their relationship with offices and agencies of the United Nations (UN) system differs depending on their location and their mandate.” http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/criteria.asp
And Following Wikipedia, NGO is: “a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government. In the cases in which NGOs are funded totally or partially by governments, the NGO maintains its non-governmental status insofar as it excludes government representatives from membership in the organization.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO
Cordaid
Relation Management
Wanted: a partner for a long-standing relationship, with this appeal, the Relation Management Department started a number of activities to strengthen the co-operation with Dutch educational institutions, capital funds, foundations, companies, service clubs and financial institutions. This co-operation is important, because poverty and injustice can only be fought with joint efforts. Especially innovative types of co-operation are sought, while the use of expertise and influence are at least as important as income acquisition. The last mentioned is obviously not unimportant either, as a result of which the fund-raising efforts of the Relation Management Department in 2006 have resulted in proceeds of 6.6 million due to contributions from companies, capital funds, educational institutions, ecclesiastical institutions and service clubs.
source: Cordaid Annual report 2006 (download here)
Avina
Ashoko
Bid-network
Companies
Consultancies
Governmental Organisations
NCDO
Financial Sector
peer-to-peer banking
Triodos Bank
The Triodos Bank fynances compagnies, institutions and project with an added value in the field of social, enviroment and cultural. For this the bank uses money from savers and investors who chose to invest in a social and durable concern.
Mission • Being part of a society in which the living standart is raised and human value is the main focus. • They want to provide people , companies and organisations to make conscious use of their money and promote durable developments • Giving their clients a durable financial product and good service.
Fair Share Fund A private investment option, which invests in local entrepreneurs in developing countries. Fair Share Fund helps people in Central-Asia and Eastern-Europe to start their own business or expand their business.
http://www.triodos.nl/nl/personal_banking/investments/investment_types/43502/
Terrafina Microfinance
A micro fynancing program of the ICCO, Oikocredit and Rabobank Foundation. They are active worldwide. They don’t provide micro credits themselves. They support young local credit organisations in their starting phase with allowances and advise. More experienced organisations get loans to expand their activities. These organisations do provide micro credits. Terrafina Microfinance only operates in Africa.
http://www.terrafina.nl/en/index.phtml?p=Vraag+en+antwoord
AMSA
Argentina Microfinanzas S.A. (AMSA) is a start-up microfinance institution set up by an experienced management team with good loans methodology and a solid business plan.
http://www.triodos.com/com/who_we_finance/funds/triodos_doen_foundation/latin_america/207900
The foundation Triodos-Doen
Is a coorporation between the Triodos Bank and the DOEN foundation. Their goal is to stimulate project which concern durable developments in developing countries. The foundation Triodos-Doen focusses on MFI’s and fair trade organisations and biological products with a fair trade label.
http://www.doen.nl/web/show/id=44589
FIS
FIS is the second largest MFI in Argentina. In addition to loans, it provides solar panels to families living in zones where there is no commercial electricity.
http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/global-x/topics/Argentina
RADIM Red Argentina de instituciones de Microcrédito
Aims • To give support and to strengthen the professionalization of Human resources of the IMF partners. • To generate compromised Human Resources to institutions, to offer services of high quality to the people for those who work for.
Services • To achieve the mentioned aims it is planed to implement different actions and intervention methodologies: • Thematic trainings integrating several IMF (Seminars, Workshops, courses, etc.) • Specializing trainings at field in every IMF (from demand) • Internship Programme between the IMF. • Services of technical assistance to the IMF. • Training actions at distance (Internet and systems of videoconference) • Events of training on microfinance, national and international.
http://www.reddemicrocredito.org/eng/servicios.asp
Kiva
Mission: connecting people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty
Kiva empowers individuals to lend directly to entrepreneurs in the developing world. They work together with existing expert microfinance institutions.
International Aid Organizations
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. The UN was founded in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between nations and to provide a platform for dialogue.
Goals
The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015.[30] The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000, commits the states to: 1. eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; 2. achieve universal primary education; 3. promote gender equality and empower women; 4. reduce child mortality; 5. improve maternal health; 6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; 7. ensure environmental sustainability; and 8. develop a global partnership for development.
Strengths & Expertise
Example projects
World Bank
The World Bank is a collection of international organizations to aid countries in their process of economic development with loans, advice, and research. It was founded in the 1940s to aid Western European countries after World War II with capital.
Goals
The World Bank, makes loans to developing countries for development programmes with the stated goal of reducing poverty
Strengths & Expertise
It includes four agencies: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD or 'World Bank') which provides hard loans to countries for projects (with relatively high interest rates and shorter repayment periods); the International Development Association (IDA) which provides soft loans or grants to countries (with low or no interest and long repayment periods); the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which is the private sector arm of the World Bank and encourages private business and investment in developing countries; and, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) which guarantees funds that private investors direct to developing countries.
Example projects in Argentina
The key features of the World Bank program in Argentina include the following projects:
•Plan Nacer – The loan for US$300 million guarantees health services to mothers and children in the northeast and northwest regions, where the country’s nine poorest provinces are located.
• Proinder - supports improving the productive and organizational capacity of poor rural communities and strengthening national and provincial rural development policy. The Bank supported Proinder with a US$75 million investment loan and granted an extension in 2007 of US$45 million to allow the program to expand and reach 72,000 households from the 30,000 originally contemplated.
• Heads of Household Transition – the US$350 million project helps fund the implementation of a transition strategy to improve employment prospects and job placement for current participants in the Heads of Household program. The Heads of Household is an emergency “safety-net” program created by the Government of Argentina in 2002 that provides income support to unemployed head of households.
• Rural Education Improvement Project (PROMER) - the US$150 million loan supports the national government policy for rural education.
Analytical Agenda: The Bank is providing an extended plan of analytical work to Argentina including, among others, a poverty assessment focused on the links between informality, poverty, and inequality and a social protection study to support the transition from the Heads of Household program to a more permanent social safety net.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is an agency of the United Nations founded in 1948. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
Goals
The WHO aims to promote technical cooperation for health among nations, carry out programs to control and eradicate disease, and strive to improve the quality of human life. To reach its goals, the WHO has adopted the following agenda- 1. Promoting development 2. Fostering health security 3. Strengthening health systems 4. Harnessing research, information and evidence 5. Enhancing partnerships 6. Improving performance
