International Organizations (External Sector) Part-V

Total Questions: 13

11. India is a member of which among the following? [I.A.S. (Pre) 2015]

1. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

2. Association of South-East Asian Nations

3. East Asia Summit

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Correct Answer: (d) India is a member of none of them
Solution:The East Asia Summit (EAS) is the Indo-Pacific's premier forum for strategic dialogue. It was established on 14th December 2005. The EAS has 18 members-the ten ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) along with Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States.

The EAS is an annual leaders' summit, which is usually held alongside 'ASEAN' leaders' meeting. The 18th EAS was held in September, 2023 in Jakarta under the presidency of Indonesia. India is not a member of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

12. Which of the following statements is/are true about Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)? [Jharkhand P.C.S. (Pre) 2023]

I. India is a member of CDRI.

II. It is a UN agency.

III. Its headquarters is located in Paris.

IV. It was launched during G20 Summit, 2023.

Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) Only 1
Solution:The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and knowledge institutions that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.

It is not a UN agency. It was launched by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit in September, 2019, India is the founding member of CDRI. Its headquarters is in New Delhi. Hence, only statement I is true.

13. With reference to 'WaterCredit', consider the following statements: [I.A.S. (Pre) 2021]

1. It puts microfinance tools to work in the water and sanitation sector.

2. It is a global initiative launched under the aegis of the World Health Organization and the World Bank,

3. It aims to enable the poor people to meet their water needs without depending on subsidies.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Correct Answer: (c) 1 and 3 only
Solution:Water Credit is an initiative of Water.org that puts microfinance tools to work in the water and sanitation (watsan) sector. It is not launched under the aegis of the WHO and the World Bank.

Water.org is an American nonprofit developmental aid organization resulting from the merger between H2O Africa Foundation, co-founded by Matt Damon, and Water Partners, co-founded by Gary White. Its goal is to provide aid to developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that do not have access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

Water Credit is the first comprehensive program of its kind that connects the microfinance and watsan communities to scale up access to credit and capital for individual-and house- hold-based watsan needs and does so with multiple models across multiple countries.

Water Credit focuses on individual- and household-level microloans that are typically provided through MFI self-help group models and target a price range appropriate for clients living at the base of the economic pyramid.

Through Water Credit, Water.org aims to channel and redeploy financial resources more efficiently, enabling increasing numbers of people to meet their water and sanitation needs through demand-driven, market-based services and reducing the need for never-ending subsidy.

Hence , statements 1 and 3 are correct while statement 2 is incorrect.