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World Vision

ADETOYESE ODUOLA

International Business in the Global Environment:
Management and Strategy

World Vision

Executive Summary
World Vision is an international Christian relief and development organization working to promote the well-being of all people especially children was established in United States in 1951. World Vision seeks to serve people who are poor worldwide, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic origin. After so many years of building a network of interdependent, national organizations delivering relief and development that are responsive to local needs, World Vision's International office is planning to implement a major global HIV/AIDS initiative that challenges the strategic direction, organizational capabilities, and even underlying values of its carefully constructed world partnership.
Not only does the new AIDS initiative require much more central direction than is customary in this global partnership of World Vision organizations, each with its own independent board of directors, but it also is acknowledged to have little support among World Vision's donor base and even its internal organization. Those issues mentioned in the case are those regarding children crisis, HIV and AIDS, child nutrition and health, child participation such as and the use of children as combatants in armed conflict , economic justice and development. While the problems include the following the war of Vietnam which starts to absorb the organization’s energy, lack of long range planning, lack of adequate mechanism for administration.
In 2002, World Vision, along with other NGO partners, received one of the largest emergency relief grants in history to provide food and related assistance to tens of millions of Africans affected by the decade’s worst famine in Southern Africa. World Vision has continued to be a voice for the poor by helping to stop the flow of conflict diamonds fueling civil wars in Africa, deterring sex tourists who prey on innocent...