United Postal Union

United Postal Union is a specialised agency of the UN that coordinates the postal service policy among its member nations. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration (CA), the Postal Operations Council (POC) and the International Bureau. 

There are 192 member nations of the United Postal Union. The newest member is South Sudan, which joined on 4 October 2011.

The basic objectives of the UPU are listed below :

• Financial services
• General policy issues
• Parcels
• Postal economics
• Sustainable development
• Technical cooperation

Bishar Abdirahman Hussein was first elected Director General of the UPU International Bureau on 10 October 2012 during the 25th Universal Postal Congress in Doha, receiving a second mandate during the 26th Congress in Istanbul.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) is a specific association of the UN which attempts to make the conditions for discourse among developments, societies and people groups, in light of regard for generally shared esteems. 

UNESCO was shaped on 16 November 1945. It has 195 part countries and is represented by the General Conference and the Decision Board. Its headquarter is situated in Paris and it dedicates itself to global peace and security by advancing training, logical developments and societies all through the world. 

UNESCO seeks after its targets through five noteworthy projects: training, characteristic sciences, social/human sciences, culture and correspondence/data. 

The principle target of UNESCO are recorded beneath : 

It conducts projects and trainings to teach the general population. 

Directing and assigning undertakings or spots of logical and social significance. 

Advancing and financing ventures for social welfare. 

There are different NGOs and INGOs working under UNESCO all through the world. 

Irina Bokova is the present Director General and she is from Bulgaria. She has been dealing with the association from an abnormal state since 2009.

International Telecommunication Union

The International Telecommunication is a particular association of the UN.ITU is focused on interfacing all the world's kin – wherever they live and whatever their methods. Through work, ITU ensures and underpins everybody's crucial ideal to convey.

Today, ICTs support everything ITU does. They help oversee and control crisis administrations, water supplies, control systems and nourishment conveyance chains. They bolster human services, training, taxpayer driven organizations, money related markets, transportation frameworks, online business stages and natural administration. Furthermore, they enable individuals to speak with associates, loved ones whenever, and anyplace.

TU participation peruses like a's Who of the ICT area. ITU is one of a kind among UN organizations in having both open and private area enrollment. So notwithstanding our 193 Member States, ITU enrollment incorporates ICT controllers, many driving scholarly organizations and nearly 700 tech organizations.

In an inexorably interconnected world, ITU is the single worldwide association grasping all players in this powerful and quickly developing segment.

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund is a specialised organization of the UN to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

It was established under the idea of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes in 1944. The primary work of the IMF is to main a standard and stable monetary system- exchange rates and prices etc. all around the world. 

There are 189 countries as the members of the INF and 24 directors each representing a single country or a group of countries. The approximate staffing of the INF is 2700 from 148 countries. This organization also helps the member nations experiencing balance of payment difficulties. 

The Managing Director of the IMF is Christine Lagarde and she has been holding the post from 5 July 2011. Previously she has hold various ministerial post in the French Government. 

International Maritime Organization

International Maritime Organization is a specific association of the UN which is dependable of directing delivery. The IMO was built up in Geneva in 1984 and came into constrain ten years after the fact. 

The headquarter of the UN is arranged in London and it comprises of 172 part countries. The primary part of IMO is to build up sheltered, secure and a superior methods for delivery by making if more productive. The money related circumstance of the IMO is overseen by a committee of individuals chosen by the get together. To be a part country of the IMO the country must sign or concur with the Convention on the International Maritime Organization. The three partner individuals from the IMO are the Faroe Islands, Hong Kong and Macao.

The world expects and depends on a more secure delivery association which is given by the system of the IMO. IMO covers the whole transporting strategy of the world including plan of the boats, hardware, keeping an eye on, operation.etc. 

Kitack Lim was chosen Secretary-General of the Organization by the 114th session of the IMO Council in June 2015 for a four-year time span starting 1 January 2016. The decision was supported by the IMO's Assembly at its 29th session in November 2015.

International Labour Organization

The International Labor Organization is one of the particular office of the UN which manages the work issues, work gauges, standardized savings, etc.The fundamental objective of the ILO is to upgrade business openings, give an alluring workplace and improve social insurance.

The ILO has 187 part states : 186 of the UN and the Cook Islands .

The present Secretary General of the ILO is Guy Ryder and he has been assuming the liability since 2012.

International Fund for Agricultural Development

The International Fund for Agricultural Development is a specific organization of the UN which is centered around taking out craving and neediness from the provincial parts of the creating nation.

Because of the 1974 World Food Conference, the IFAD was set up in 1977. The IFAD works in giving nourishment and chances to men and ladies living in the creating nations. It likewise works in enhancing the agrarian advances for a superior healthy result.

The IFAD works with the administrations and conveys the assets gathered from various governments into the part of farming and nourishing poor people.

A portion of alternate parts of the IFAD are recorded beneath:

To make a more straightforward and open rural market.

To give fooding chances to the poor of creating nations.

Gathering assets to convey into the creating countries.

In Nepal it is working viably to help the provincial agriculturists to get the merited result of their workings. It is attempting to elevate the standard of the poor by giving them opputunities.

International CIvil Aviation Organization

The International Civil Aviation Organization is a particular office of the UN that spotlights on making planes and strategies for a superior and secure air transport. The headquarter of the ICAO is situated in Quartier International of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Fifty-two nations marked the Convention on International Civil Aviation, otherwise called the Chicago Convention, in Chicago, Illinois, on 7 December 1944. Under its terms, a Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) was to be set up, to be supplanted thusly by a lasting association when 26 nations confirmed the tradition.

The structure of the present Council is as per the following:

PART I – (States of boss significance in ir transport) – Australia*, Brazil*, Canada*, China*, France*, Germany*, Italy*, Japan*, Russian Federation*, United Kingdom*, and the United States*.[

PART II – (States which make the biggest commitment to the arrangement of offices for universal common air route) – Argentina*, Colombia, Egypt*, India*, Ireland, Mexico*, Nigeria*, Saudi Arabia*, Singapore*, South Africa*, Spain* and Sweden.

PART III– (States guaranteeing geographic portrayal)- Algeria, Cape Verde, Congo, Cuba, Ecuador, Kenya*, Malaysia*, Panama, Republic of Korea*, Turkey, United Arab Emirates*, United Republic of Tanzania*, and Uruguay.

Note * shows re-race.

The present Secretary General of the ICAO is Fang Lu and he has been the General Secretary since 2015.

International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy is one of the particular office of the UN that is dedicated to spare the atomic vitality. This UN association works with its accomplice countries in advancing sheltered and secure utilization of the atomic innovations.

The IAEA was set up on 29 July 1957. At the early start of its foundation, the IAEA was a self-governing association and was free of the United Nations. W. Sterling Cole was the primary Director General of the IAEA from 1957 to 1961.

The three primary columns or the ranges of work under the IAEA's main goal is Safety and Security; Science and Technology; and Safety and Verification. The IAEA is not under the UN's control but rather it reports to the UN and in addition the Security Council.

The IAEA board comprises of 22 part countries which represent the association. Among the 22, 10 part are chosen by the active board. The ten countries are chosen in light of the most exceptional and wide measure of nuclear vitality that they contain.

The present General Director of the IAEA is Amano Yukiya. He has been responsible for the association since 2009. He was beforehand a chief of Science Division in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN is a agency of the United Nations which focuses in eliminating world hunger and problems caused by it. The Concept of FAO arrissed in the late 19th and early 20th century by the US agriculturist and activist David Lubin. In May–June 1905, an international conference was held in Rome, Italy, which led to the creation of the International Institute of Agriculture.

                                 

Later in 1943 under the leadership of US president Franklin D Roosevelt, the FAO was formed. In 1951 the FAO's headquarters was moved from Washington DC, USA to Rome, Italy. The Organization is directed by the representatives from the member nations which meets in very 2 years. The organization has chosen a group of 49 nations to govern the FAO. The budget of FAO is funded by the member nations through the conference. The total FAO budget for 2016-17 was USD 2.6 billion. 

The current Director General of the FAO is Jose Graziano da Silva. His tenure started from January 2012 and will end at July 2019. 

List of UN agencies

At the beginning of the establishment of the UN, there were 6 principle organizations. But later in the years the no of organizations have increased . These organizations are called specialized organizations and apart from these organizations there are other form of organizations which are related to the UN Secretariat, treaty organizations and research organizations.

Some of the specialized organizations are listed below :

• Food and Agriculture Organization 
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• International Civil Aviation Organization 
• International Fund for Agricultural Development  
• International Labour Organization 
• International Maritime Organization 
• International Monetary Fund 
• International Telecommunication Union
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 
• Universal Postal Union 
• World Bank Group 
• World Intellectual Property Organization 
• World Meteorological Organization 
• United Nations World Tourism Organization 
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• World Health Organization 

There are 2 departments and office of the UN secretariat and they are :

• Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs 

Also, there are 3 treaty organization of the UN :

• International Seabed Authority 
• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization 
• Organization for the prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Some of the training and research bodies of the UN are as follows :

• United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research 
• United Nations University
• United Nations Institute for Training and Research 
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
• United Nations International Crime and Justice Research Institute
• United Nations System Staff College 
• University for Peace 
• International Center of Theoretical Physics 
• Innocenti Research Center- International Child Development Center

What is UN ?

The UN logo

UN is an international organization founded in 1945.  It is currently made up of 193 Member States.  The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.

Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations is a member of the General Assembly.  States are admitted to membership in the UN by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

The main organs of the UN are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Secretariat.  All were established in 1945 when the UN was founded. 

The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a symbol of the Organization's ideals and a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor and vulnerable. The current Secretary-General of the UN, and the ninth occupant of the post, is Mr. António Guterres of Portugal, who took office on 1 January 2017. The UN Charter describes the Secretary-General as "chief administrative officer" of the Organization.