ECOSOC (UN coordinated)

Observer Inter-Governmental Autonomous Organizations

Participation on a continuing basis:

• African Regional Centre of Technology
• Asian and Pacific Development Centre
• Asian Productivity Organization
• Council of Arab Economic Unity
• Global Water Partnership
• Helsinki Commission
• Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
• Intergovernmental Institution For the Use of Micro-Algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition
• International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions
• International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
• Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• Latin American Energy Organization
• Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
• Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
• Union des Conseils Économiques et Sociaux Africains
• West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)
• World Deserts Foundation
• World Tourism Organization

Participation on an ad hoc basis:

• African Accounting Council
• African Cultural Institute
• Arab Security Studies and Training Center
• Council of Arab Ministers of the Interior
• International Bauxite Association
• International Civil Defence Organisation
• Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
• Functional commissions
• UN Commission for Social Development
• UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR): disbanded 2006, replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly
• Commission on Narcotic Drugs
• Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
• Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)
• Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) - Disbanded 2013, replaced with High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development a joint subsidiary boy of the General Assembly and ECOSOC
• UN Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW)
• Commission on Population and Development
• UN Statistical Commission
• United Nations Forum on Forests
• Regional commissions
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Specialized agencies

These specialized agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other inter alia through the coordinating machinery of the Economic and Social Council

• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Bank Group
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
• International Development Association (IDA)
• International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Universal Postal Union (UPU)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS)
• International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Other related entities, mechanisms and processes
• Financing for Development, the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration
• Development Cooperation Forum
• United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
• Sessional and Standing Committees Expert, ad hoc and related bodies
• United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)