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United Nations Development Group

  • UNESCOUNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, was built on a conviction that wars begin in the minds of men, and that…
  • UNICEFUNICEF was born in the ruins of a world war. On the 11th of December 1946, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 57(I), creating the United…
  • International Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentThe International Bank for Reconstruction and Development was born in 1944 from one of the most ambitious acts of international cooperation in history.
  • International Monetary FundThe International Monetary Fund holds 191 member countries, yet a handful of wealthy governments command most of the votes inside it.
  • United Nations Development ProgrammeOn the 22nd of November 1965, a new agency named the United Nations Development Programme officially began its work. This entity emerged from the merger of…
  • World Bank GroupThe World Bank Group approved its first loan on the 9th of May 1947: US$250 million to France for postwar reconstruction.
  • World Health OrganizationThe World Health Organization sits at the center of every major global health crisis of the modern era. It was the body that declared COVID-19 a pandemic on…
  • United Nations Environment ProgrammeIn June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment convened in Stockholm. This gathering marked a turning point for global environmental…
  • Food and Agriculture Organization"Fiat panis" - let there be bread. Those two Latin words are the motto of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and they carry the…
  • World Meteorological OrganizationThe year 1873 marked the founding of the International Meteorological Organization. This group operated as a nongovernmental forum for exchanging weather…
  • United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairsThe United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs sits at the heart of a quiet but consequential machinery: translating the world's grandest…
  • United Nations Research Institute for Social DevelopmentThe United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, known as UNRISD, was born in 1963 with a grant from the Government of the Netherlands and a…