C. Answer in one or two sentences.
1. Which UN agency works towards preventing the spread of diseases?
2. List any one function of the ILO.
3. What does ILO stand for?
4. What does FAO stand for?
5. What did UNICEF originally stand for?
6. What does UNESCO stand for?
7. what does UNDP stand for?
8. Geneva houses the headquarters of which two UN agencies?
9. Which UN agency was established to provide relief to children affected by the Second World War?
Where are its headquarters?
10. Write any one function of UNDP.
Answers
Answer:
1. WHO
2. The functions of the ILO include the development and promotion of standards for national legislation to protect and improve working conditions and standards of living.
3. International Labour Organisation
4. Food and Agricultural Organisation
5. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), originally known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
6. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
7. United Nations Development Programme
8. WHO, UNOG
9. UNICEF
10. UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.