UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

This Organization is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The Organization's primary objective is the promotion and acceleration of industrial development in developing countries and countries with economies in transition and the promotion of international industrial cooperation.

In order to fulfill these objectives, UNIDO
• assists developing countries in the formulation of development, institutional, scientific and technological policies and programmes in the field of industrial development;
• analyzes trends, disseminates information and coordinates activities in their industrial development;
• acts as a forum for consultations and negotiations directed towards the industrialization of developing countries; and
• provides technical cooperation to developing countries for implementing their development plans for sustainable industrialization in their public, cooperative and private sectors.
UNIDO was established as a UN program with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and became a specialized agency of the United Nations in 1985.

The UNIDO has 172 member states.
UNIDO's headquarters are located at the Vienna International Centre, the UN campus that also hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization.

UNIDO's services therefore focus on encouraging the creation of decent employment and income in order to overcome poverty.

UNIDO is a leading provider of services for improved industrial energy efficiency and the promotion of renewable sources of energy.

UNICEF

The "United Nations Children's Fund" was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II.

Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006.

Sponsorship:

UNICEF has begun partnerships with world-class athletes and teams to promote the organization's work and to raise funds.One the parnters is FC Barcelona,they were very proud,because it was the first time in FC Barcelona's history that they have had another organization's name across the front of their shirts.

Partners:

• FC Barcelona


• Hammarby IF (Swedish soccer club)


• Brøndby IF (Danish soccer club)


• Renault F1 Team in Formula One

Logo:

United Nations Office at Geneva

United Nations Office at Geneva

The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) is the representative office of the United Nations in Geneva. With more than 1,600 staff, we are the biggest United Nations duty station outside of headquarters in New York and provide critical support to the Organization’s efforts. We service over 8,000 meetings every year, making UNOG one of the busiest intergovernmental conference centres in the world and a focal point for multilateral diplomacy. Together, we strive to strengthen our contribution towards realizing the vision of the United Nations for a more stable, secure and prosperous world for all.

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

Democratic Governance
Poverty Reduction
Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Environment and Energy
HIV/AIDS

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Today, I'm want to tell you something about the Food and Agriculture Organization; short FAO!

The FAO was founded on 16 October 1945. It leads international efforts to defeat hunger. 

FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. They help developing countries. 

The world headquarters are located in Rome.

FAO's activities comprise four main areas:

- putting information within reach 

- sharing policy expertise

- providing a meeting place for nations

- bringing knowledge to the field 

Structure and finance

FAO is governed by the Conference of Member Nations, which meets every two years to review the work carried out by the Organization and approve a Programme of Work and Budget for the next two years.

The Conference elects a Council of 49 Member Nations to act as an interim governing body. Members serve three-year, rotating terms. The Conference also elects the Director-General to head the agency. The current Director-General, Dr Jacques Diouf, of Senegal, began a six-year term in January 1994, was re-elected to a second term which began in January 2000, and a third term beginning of January 2006

FAO’s Regular Programme budget is funded by its members, through contributions set at the FAO Conference. The FAO budget for the years 2008-2009 is US$929.8 million.

IMO

The International Maritime Organization is a specialised agency of the United Nations which is responsible for measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping and to prevent marine pollution. The IMO is also involved in legal matters, including liability and compensation issues, the facilitation of international maritime traffic and technical assistance.The IMO has 169 Members representing countries normally through their national maritime administrations. The main focus of the IMO is to develop and adopt international instruments or regulations for safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans.

Homepage:

http://www.imo.org/

Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)

Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, abbreviated to CPLP) is the intergovernmental organisation for friendship among Portuguese-speaking nations where Portuguese is an official language. The Portuguese-speaking countries are home to more than 223 million people located across the globe.
The CPLP was formed in 1996 with seven countries: Portugal, Brazil, the former colony in South America, and five former colonies in Africa — Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. East Timor joined the community in 2002 after gaining independence.
The CPLP is a bloc in the process of construction and the societies of the eight member nations have little knowledge of each other. One of the features of the CPLP is that its members are linked by a common language and shared cultural features, which form a bridge among countries separated by great distances and on different continents.
In 2005, during a meeting in Luanda, the ministers of culture of the eight countries declared the 5 May as the Lusophone Culture Day (Dia da Cultura Lusófona in Portuguese).
In July 2006, during the Bissau summit, Equatorial Guinea and Mauritius were admitted as Associate Observers[1] along with 17 International associations and organizations considered as Consultative Observers.
When the CPLP was formed, Equatorial Guinea asked for observer status. Equatorial Guinea was a Portuguese colony from the 15th to 18th centuries and has some territories where Portuguese-based creole languages are spoken and cultural connections with São Tomé and Príncipe and Portugal are felt. Also, the country has recently cooperated with Portuguese-speaking African countries and Brazil at an educational level. At the CPLP summit of July 2004, in São Tomé and Príncipe, the member states agreed to change the statutes of the community to accept states as associate observers. Equatorial Guinea is in discussion for full membership.[2]
Mauritius, which was unknown to Europeans until the Portuguese sailed there and has strong connections with Mozambique, also obtained associate observer status in 2006.
In 2008, Senegal, with historical connections to Portuguese colonisation in Casamance, was admitted as Associate Observer.
In many developing Portuguese-speaking nations, Portuguese is the language of government and commerce which means that Portuguese speaking people from African nations can work and communicate with others in different parts of the world, especially in Portugal and Brazil, where the economies are stronger. Many leaders of Portuguese-speaking nations in Africa are fearful that language standards do not meet the fluency required and are therefore making it compulsory in schools so that a higher degree of fluency is achieved and young Africans will be able to speak a world language that will help them later in life.