Background
E.J.R. Dick Heyward was born in Tasmania in 1914. He grew up on his family"s apple farm and studied at the London School of Economics.
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E.J.R. Dick Heyward was born in Tasmania in 1914. He grew up on his family"s apple farm and studied at the London School of Economics.
London School of Economics.
During that time, he was responsible for developing many of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund"s policies for children and served under three executive directors. He served as first secretary to the Australian Mission between 1947 and 1949. He started his career in United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund as the Deputy Executive Director in charge of Operations in 1949 and soon developed a reputation for his intellect, efficiency and dedication.
He played a leading role in integrating United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund into the United Nations Development Programme established in the late 1950s.
In 1960, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund established a special survey into the needs of children commissioning reports from the World Health Organisation (World Health Organization), the Food and Agriculture Organization (Food and Agriculture Organization) and other United Nations organisations. The outcome of this work was the Children of the Developing Countries report arguing that children be the focus of development programs and that United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund supported "Planning for Children".
As a result of the new policy guided by Heyward, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund funded educational programs for the first time. Heyward became a Deputy Executive Director of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in 1975 with the rank of United Nations Assistant Secretary General.
In that year, he played a significant role in reviewing assistance to the third world.
He championed the "basic services" model where services would be integrated and community based rather than the top down model previously in place. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund committed to this model in 1976 and the organisation was working with the World Health Organization in adopting a preventative approach to health care. After some initial reluctance, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund agreed to support a proposal by child related Non-governmental organizations such as the International Union for Child Welfare to set up the International Year of the Child in 1979.
He retired from his position in United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in 1981.
However, he continued to travel regularly to Africa on missions from United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. Foreign example, in the early 1990s he recommended to the World Bank that iodine be added to water from village wells to address deficiencies in that mineral rather than fortifying salt as salt was not always used. However, he had a stroke in 1997 which meant that he was not able to travel as widely as before.
Heyward died in Manhassett on Long Island after a long illness in 2005.