Hi everyone,
I was wondering if the program "Child Friendly Schools" is an example of multilateral or NGO Aid? UNICEF works with the Pakistani Gov, and local communities to create 'child friendly schools'. I'm pretty sure it's NGO but im not 100% confident!
TIA
Idk the actual program, but if it's UNICEF, that's part of the UN, which is a multilateral organisation. Note that a program can involve different types of aid, for instance, Australian Aid can work with an NGO like CARE Australia to deliver a program, so that it's both bilateral and NGO aid.
I'm really struggling to grasp this dot point:
"different types of aid, including emergency aid, bilateral and multilateral, non-government organisation aid, and how they are used to achieve global health and sustainable human development"
I think i'm ok with emergency aid, but for the rest??
My thoughts so far...
Multilateral: Implements large scale programs
Bilateral: ?? ? ? ??
NGO: Implements small community based programs
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Re: HHD [3/4] Questions ThreadMultilateral: as you say, huge scale, so they can really knock big issues on the head!! But not just that; can you think of any international problems that it wouldn't be in the power of one single country to deal with? Like, think about the things that the UN and WHO do that an individual country couldn't.
Bilateral: this one's a bit negative, actually, with limitations rather than benefits. Often countries give to others for their own benefit, so it's not so useful - like they might send their own goods and services to improve their employment rates and trade, which may be more expensive and less efficient. Like they might say 'we spent $5 mill!!!', but in reality, since they spent it on their own expensive products to help
themselves, it only has the actual value of $3mill. Still, there's heaps of good done.
NGO: small, community-based programs - think about how that makes them more sustainable, in terms of the elements of sustainability.
Hey guys, i'm kinda new to this
I am a bit lost with regards to the NGO's. So .....
• the role of non-government organisations based in Australia in promoting global health and sustainable human development --> Do we need to know about specific programs ( i thought we would be given a case study??) What is an example of one?
• programs focusing on literacy, food security, HIV/AIDS and malaria, immunisation, safe water and sanitation in terms of.........:
--> are these run by DFAT or something??? I was looking at past exams and some questions were like what is a program that AusAid (now DFAT) has run with an NGO?... I was under the impression it was hypothetical, like what is a program that could be implemented???
Hope i'm making sense coz I'm confused myself haha
Heya, cool to have you on board! Welcome, and let us know if you have any issues with anything
Yes, you'll NEED to know 1-2 programs; for instance, could search through
https://www.care.org.au/what-we-do/, under each heading memory tells me there are a few programs. You need to know the aims, a few specific details about how they run, and then how that impacts GH and SHD.
No, there are two types of questions:
- Outline a program that HAS been implemented... --> NOT hypothetical, you need to learn a real one
- Outline a program that COULD be implemented... --> hypothetical, but you can still use details you learnt from the real one, or ones you've made up.
Those programs on literacy, food security etc. can be run by anyone - NGOs, DFAT, multilateral organisations. It's up to you to find any random (true) program. However, if you learn 1-2 from DFAT and 1-2 of NGOs, then that overlaps with other dot-points and saves you brainspace.
Okay, that AusAID + NGO question is possibly the nastiest question they've ever sprung - it's not clear that you have to know something like that, and it terrified me during my study (what other things would they spring that I didn't know I had to know?). If you get stuck on the spot with a scary question like that, be prepared to invent; write out a full program that you know DFAT has implemented, and link it with a random NGO. Don't panic and give up!!