health organisations

• Oxfam - NGO


  • aims to eradicate poverty globally - supported 8 million
  • provides countries with clean water and sanitation
  • promotes long term health
  • works towards gender equality
  • was too concerned with reputation and relationship with donors
  • tolerated poor behaviour and safeguarding processes fell below expectations
  • fewer health problems for poor communities and refugee camps
• Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - NGO

  • provides aid globally after a natural disaster or epidemic
  • lead the world's response to Ebola
  • sole provider of healthcare, food, water in a large number of African countries
  • doctors were left unsupported
  • racism was experienced from world leaders
  • provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare
  • helps 75 countries
• Bill and Melinda Gates foundation - NGO

  • works with research to prevent HIV, malaria, tuberculosis etc
  • promotes global development
  • extreme poverty and mortality rates for children under 5 were halved
  • HIV cases fell by 40%
  • 2.6 billion gained access to to improved drinking water
  • created environmental degradation, pesticide use, less crop diversity, increased corporate control over food systems
  • aims to reduce cause of infant mortality in developing countries and rude burden of diseases
• World health organisation (WHO)


  • aims to improve global health and fight disease
  • eradicated small pox
  • $1 billion programme in Mexico for eradicating malaria through insecticides, drug, environmental engineering
  • malaria vaccines were ineffective
  • delayed response to the Ebola epidemic 2014
  • ineffective in handling of Covid in early stages
• Food and Agriculture orgainsiation

  • aims to prevent hunger to maintain global health
  • allows people to work with information to come up to migration strategies to avoid disease and promote health
  • helps countries eliminate hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition
  • poverty and hunger should end in the next 15 years
  • didn't focus on results in developing countries
  • contributed to international efforts to defeat hunger and improve local economies by improving agriculture, forestry and fishing practices
• World food programme 


  • aims to eradicate hunger globally and promote good health
  • delivers food assistance in emergencies
  • work with communities to 'improve nutrition and build resilience
  • enhances nutrition in women and children
  • supports farmer in improving productivity, reducing losses
  • helps countries prepare and cope with climate change
  • have discriminated against women and ethnic minorities