Troubles Involved with Giving Aid

Giving aid could be problematic. Especially, when the management who receive it is dishonest and uses it in other ways other than the initial purpose. It is hard to keep track of how well aid is being use by recipient countries. Usually the United Nation Security Council is in charge of monitoring all the awarded contracts. In many cases the Security Council does not efficiently do their job of overseeing an Aid Program and corruption can easily take place.

Oil-for-Food Programme

The Oil-for-Food Programme was establish by the United Nations in 1995. The purpose of this programme was to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humaritarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to rebuild its military.

This programme was introduced by the US Clinton Administration in 1995, as a response to arguments that ordinary Iraqi citizens were inordinately affected by the international economic sanctions aimed at the demilitarisation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, imposed in the wake of the first Gulf War. The sactions were discontinued in 2003 after the United States invasion of Iraq, and the humanitarian functions turned over to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

As the program ended, there were revelations of corruption involving the funds. Facts today show just how corrupt the UN and Saddam were, while money was suppose to be going to the Iraqi people the money was going to Saddam.

Time Line OIL-FOR-FOOD: FACTS