United Nations agency
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- noun
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agencia de las Naciones Unidas
- Also, write to the World Bank, the Agency for International Development, the appropriate United Nations agencies, and other international development organizations.
- United Nations agencies and others
Examples
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The inclusion of migrants and displaced people in health systems will therefore require multisectoral and effective coordination between nongovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, and governments.
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In an attempt to bring this situation under control, firefighting experts, United Nations agencies, and international aid organizations met in Geneva in April.
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A wide variety of United Nations agencies, led by WHO and UNICEF, also invested in health care.
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Other sources of public financing include bilateral assistance agencies, United Nations agencies, and recipient country governments.
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Mr. Haidon has also worked with United Nations agencies in Sudan and Indonesia.
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But, he adds, most countries have focused on obtaining advice or resources from specialized United Nations agencies instead of developing local institutions to provide local solutions.
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With funding from United Nations agencies and others, the project aims initially to demonstrate how healthy floodplains can provide habitat, reduce pollution loads, and enhance fisheries.
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Female genital mutilation has been a top priority for United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for almost three decades.
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In this scenario, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the United Nations agency dedicated to the use of intellectual property as a means of stimulating innovation and creativity for the economic, social, and cultural development of all countries through a balanced and effective international intellectual property system.
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The WHO is a United Nations agency that focuses on improving health care around the world.
Synonyms
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An organization that works with the United Nations on a particular task, for example health or children
How Specialized
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from the constituents: 'United Nations' denotes the international organization of united nations and 'agency' denotes an organization with a specific function, so together they denote an organization within the UN with a specific remit. This is a regular compositional noun phrase pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
United Nations agency comes from a simple image: countries are 'United' together as Nations and they make a small team or agency to do one job, like health or education, so it means an organization inside the United Nations that focuses on a specific area.