IGO and NGO that Respond to Famine Crisis in Ethiopia

LIST OF IGOs

(www.un.org, 2018)

The General Assembly (GA) is the main deliberative, policy making and representative organ of the UN. 
One of the development goals is  to promote the international political cooperation, the development and codification of international law, the realization of human rights, international collaboration in the economic, social, humanitarian, cultural, educational and health fields.

(www.wfp.org, 2018)

1. Emergency Response

WFP is currently providing emergency food assistance to 3.3 million people in the Somali region and the places that shrunken by the drought.

2.0 Nutrition

WFP provides nutrition assistance, particularly in emergency settings, to 1.6 million vulnerable people, including pregnant women, nursing mothers, children under 5 and orphans.

3.0 School Meals

the WFP had sponsored school meals since 1994 with an initial pilot project in war-affected zones in Tigray region.

(www.unicef.com.my, 2018)

 United Nation General Assembly also had UNICEF Ethiopia which has been operating since 1952. 

UNICEF roles are to supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS.

1.0  Providing Essential Drugs

UNICEF have providing the Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) to cater the diarrhea, respiratory infection and worm diseases that effected by the child in Ethiopia.

(www.worldbank.org, 2018)

The World Bank is an international organization that helps emerging market countries reduce poverty.

1.0  Provides Funding

The World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced that the World Bank Group is mobilizing an immediate response to the shattering food insecurity for Ethiopia, Kenya, North-East Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. 

UNHCR was established as of 1 January 1951 by the General Assembly of the United Nations. According to its Statute, UNHCR has two principal functions: to provide international protection to refugees within its competence and to seek durable solutions for them in co-operation with governments.

1.0 “Humanitarian Corridor”

Humanitarian Corridor program established by the Italian government in partnership with several NGOs as well as the Ethiopian refugee agency and UNHCR. the “Humanitarian Corridor” had brought the refugees to Italy from Ethiopia. 

THE NGO

(www.rescue.org, 2018)

IRC had started working in Ethiopia since the year of 2000 where there are nearly 740,000 refugees in the Ethiopia. The missions of IRC is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.