APA 1122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Millennium Development Goals, World Food Programme, Family Reunification
12 Jun 2016
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One daly (disability adjusted life-years) can be thought of as one lost year of healthy life. Capacity building (work with governments to build good health outcomes within civil society"s range of operations) Child protection (work against child labour, soldiers, and abusive situations at home) Canada used to donate food of superior quality and at a better price than others in the world. Policy changed, we now can only give money. of the united nations) The red cross movement: most important non-governmental organization in the world. Ex: stayed longer than any refugees in rwanda. Ifrc (international federation of red cross and red crescent societies): Oxfam: british based, companion operations in many other countries. Care in canada, msf (doctors without borders) take an advocacy role. Red cross will not talk to press, msf would. Action contre la faim: feeding centres, nutritional centres, for seriously malnourished children. Money was being contributed to foreign aid, but it wasn"t distributed well.
