Question

With reference to the United Nations and its specialized agencies, answer the following:
State any two functions of UNICEF and two functions of WHO.

Answer 1

Hint: -UNICEF or United Nations’ Children Fund is headquartered at New York, USA and is headed by Henrietta H. Fore. December 11 is observed as UNICEF day.
-WHO or World Health Organization is based in Geneva, Switzerland and its heads include Tedros Adhanom, Soumya Swaminathan, Jane Ellison. April 7 is celebrated as WHO day.

Complete answer: The United Nations was established as a successor of the League of Nations (which was ineffective and consequently unsuccessful) in New York in 1945. Currently, 193 states are its members. Its principal organs, six in number, include:
General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, the Secretariat, Trusteeship Council (now redundant) and the International Court of Justice. Its current Secretary-General is António Guterres of Portugal.
Others include ILO (International Labour Organization), UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees), UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council).
Two functions of UNICEF:
-Immunization programmes among other disease prevention initiatives.
-Emergency assistance in disaster-struck regions.
Two functions of WHO:
-Eliciting and enforcing norms of medical importance.
-Coordinating multiple international efforts towards the common international goal of accessible healthcare.

Note: These subsidiary specialised bodies were made to better realise our global objectives like visualised in the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). It is important to mark the power dynamics in international organizations such as these, like US hegemony (both cultural and economic) in the current context.