1. United Nations Specialised Agencies Politics of Development in Africa

2. The United Nations An international organisation 192 member countries Aims –Development –Human rights –Peace UN is made up of different agencies – each one does a particular job

3. United Nations Children’s Fund Helps to meet health and education needs Provides: textbooks, blackboards, pencils, temporary classrooms Provides: safe water, immunisation, mosquito nets, medication E.g. School in a Box – meeting educational needs: kits containing educational materials eg. In 1997 UNICEF sent school supplies to 60,000 children in Zambia after floods destroyed hundreds of schoolseducational materials E.g. Feeding Centres – meeting health needs: they provide food for underweight babies and children helps reduce infant mortality. Feeding Centre in Sierra LeoneSchool-in-a-box

4. WHO World Health Organisation Helps meet health needs Provides: health information and education, immunisation, treatment of diseases, equipment (medicine, mosquito nets…) E.g. Anaemia Action – lack of iron can cause high infant mortality. WHO provides iron supplements to pregnant women E.g. WHO HIV/AIDS Programme: preventing new cases through education, training health workers, supplying medication

5. FAO Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN Helps meet food needs: aims to prevent famine by improving food production Provides: does research into farming methods, sends experts to train African farmers E.g. More Crop per Drop – trains African farmers to get the most out of limited water using low tech water pumps, eg. in Burkina Faso

6. WFP Deals with food aid - aims to get rid of hunger and malnutrition –emergency food aid to disaster zones –improving nutrition especially for women and children E.g. School Feeding Programmes – providing pupils with a daily meal –Helps pupils concentrate as they are not hungry –Encourages parents to send children to school –E.g. WFP provided food for over 250,000 pupils in Burundi in 2007/2008 – school attendance went up as a result E.g. Emergency food aid – WFP has already distributed 20 tons of food aid to refugees in DR Congo, affected by civil war Literacy levels go up

7. What’s in a School-in-a-box? 5 flip chart pads 5 permanent markers 15 ballpoint pens 25 packets of crayons 5 boxes of pencil erasers 150 exercise books 25 pencil sharpeners 25 pencils 25 plastic rulers 2 school registers 20 boxes of white chalk 20 boxes of coloured chalk 5 chalkboards dusters 1 chalkboard ruler 5 pieces of plywood for use as a chalkboard 4 litres of black paint 1 paint brush.