The UN World Food Programme (WFP)

WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. Operations aim to save lives in refugee crises and other emergencies as well as to improve the nutrition and quality of life of world's most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF is dedicated to providing life-saving assistance to children affected by disasters, and to protecting their rights. During emergencies, children are especially vulnerable to disease, malnutrition and violence and UNICEF focuses on the essential interventions required for protection, to save lives and to ensure the rights of all children, everywhere.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The core mandate of UNHCR is the protection of uprooted people. UNHCR ensures the basic human rights of vulnerable persons, seeking to provide a minimum of shelter, food, water and medical care in the immediate aftermath of any refugee exodus.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, supervising and coordinating response for disease surveillance. It promotes emergency immunization campaigns against viruses, provides medical supplies for displaced persons and refugees, and helps rehabilitating Primary Health Care facilities in neglected areas.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

FAO provides agricultural assistance activities to conflict-affected countries or in natural disasters-striken areas in order to ensure as little disruption to agricultural activities as possible.
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

UNDP provides food security, water and sanitation facilities for displaced and conflict-affected population. Through emergency health care, it aims to reduce morbidity and mortality amongst the population.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM)

IOM is the leading international organization for migration, assisting in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and in providing humanitarian assitance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

In absence of a solution to the Palestine refugee problem UNRWA's mandate consists in carrying out direct relief and work programs for this group of refugees, delivering its serivecs in times of relative calm and in times of hostilities in the Middle East. UNRWA is the main provider of basic services: housing, education, health, relief and social services. Click here for the UNRWA's website

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

UNFPA assists in emergencies and humanitarian crises. It helps to strenghten medical assistance and to prevent mortality and morbidity in areas affected by wars or natural disasters, where the collapse of social systems leaves women and young people especially vulnerable.
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The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

UNOPS supports disaster recovery assistance by providing project services.

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