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How to Improve Living Standards

How to Improve Living Standards. Unit 1: Human Geography Social Studies 11 Ms. Thind. CIDA. CIDA: Canadian Development Agency. Manage support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results.

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How to Improve Living Standards

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  1. How to Improve Living Standards Unit 1: Human Geography Social Studies 11 Ms. Thind

  2. CIDA • CIDA: Canadian Development Agency. • Manage support and resources effectively and accountably to achieve meaningful, sustainable results. • Some countries CIDA is focusing on: Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, and Sudan.

  3. http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/ACDI-CIDA.nsf/eng/FRA-71314847-PAJhttp://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/acdi-cida/ACDI-CIDA.nsf/eng/FRA-71314847-PAJ

  4. Debt Relief • IMF: International Monetary Fund  encourage SAP’s and HIPC initiative to ensure they do not get crippled by debt  provide relief. • World Bank

  5. Medical Aid UNICEF: UN organization to ensure children’s basic needs are met. (1976) - Goal: to control the under-five mortality rate. - 6.9 million children under 5 died in 2011  19,000 a day. - ½ in India, Nigeria, Congo, Pakistan and China.

  6. http://www.unicef.org/

  7. Medical Aid • WHO: UN agency responsible for providing leadership on global health mattersand setting norms and standards. • High percentage of death and disease in HIDC’s is due to poor drinking water and sanitation  one of the Millennium Development Goals.

  8. Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) UN, government agencies, and NGO’s work together to: • End poverty and hunger • Universal education • Gender equality • Maternal health • Combat HIV/AIDS • Environmental sustainability • Global partnership by 2012.

  9. http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml

  10. Medical Aid • UNAIDS: UN program on HIV/AIDS: an innovative partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support

  11. UNAIDS: How to combat HIV/AIDS • Reduce sexual transmission. • Prevent HIV transmission by drug users. • Eliminate new infection rates among children. • Eliminate gender inequalities. • Eliminate stigma and discrimination. • Strengthen HIV integration.

  12. Medical Aid • UNESCO: UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. • including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underpin all UNESCO’s strategies and activities. • UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.

  13. Foreign Aid: aid from industrialized countries to developing countries. • Bilateral Aid • aid from one country to another. • Most common type. • Tied Aid • aid with conditions. • Eg: recipient must buy or use goods and services from donor country. • Critics: Industrialized countries benefit at the expense of developing country. ODA: - Aid in the form of loans, grants, and technical assistance to promote economic development. • Multilateral Aid • Aid by different organizations. • Eg: World Bank, UNESCO, WHO. NGO: organizations that act independently from any forms of government. Eg: Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, Canadian Red Cross

  14. Read pgs. 413-417. • How will improving the living conditions of children in developing nations benefit Canada? • What three priorities should Canada follow in distributing aid. Support your answers. • What are the advantages/disadvantages of targeting 80% of Canada’s bilateral assistance to 20 priority countries? Case Study pg. 418-419. • List reasons for and against giving aid to countries whose governments have poor human rights. • Which side do you support. Explain.

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