Examples of Non Governmental Agencies

The Union of International Associations (UIA), which tracks Non Governmental Agencies, lists over 40,000 international NGOs as part of its Yearbook of International Non Governmental Agencies.

Non-Governmental Agencies examples are given below :-

Humanitarian Non-Governmental Agencies

• UNICEF (The United Nations Children’s Fund)
• WHO (World Health Organization)
• WFP (World Food Programme)
• Action Against Hunger (ACF)
• Save the Children
• Mercy Corps
• UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)
• UNDP (The United Nations Development Programme)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
• CARE International
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Environmental Non-Governmental Agencies

• Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• School strike for climate or Fridays for Future (FFF)
• Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Intersectional Ecoliberation Movement (IELM)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• European Environment Agency (EEA)
• Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)

Human Rights Agencies

• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Action Center – HRAC
• Oxfam
• Save the Children
• Anti-Slavery International
• Civil Rights Defenders
• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
• Danish Refugee Council
• Human Rights First
• Human rights Internet
• NAACP
• Plan International
• Article 19
• CARE
• Center for Victims of Torture
• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• International Federation for Human Rights
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Doctors Without Borders
• National Economic And Social Rights
• ACLU
• Center for Justice and Accountability
• Human Rights Without Frontiers International

Health and Education Agencies

• Partners in Health (PIH)
• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
• BRAC
• Ashoka
• FHI 360
• Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
• Education Cannot Wait
• PATH
• Population Services International (PSI)

Development and Poverty Alleviation Agencies

• Handicap International
• WaterAid
• Pratham
• Kiva
• Habitat for Humanity
• The Hunger Project
• GiveDirectly
• One Acre Fund

These Agencies work’s on global scale to address issues from humanitarian aid to education, environmental protection, and human rights. In areas where local governments may not fully reach these NGO’s are working effortlessly to make a world a better place .