Find the odd one out among these international bodies by comparing mandate and membership type: UNICEF, IMF, WHO, SAARC.

Introduction / Context:
Odd-one-out questions over international organisations are best solved by checking what each body is, who it reports to, and how broad its membership is. Here we have UNICEF, IMF, WHO, and SAARC. Three are global agencies with universal or near-universal participation; one is a regional intergovernmental grouping. The task is to isolate the item that breaks the shared institutional pattern.

Given Data / Assumptions:

• UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund; a UN programme focused on child welfare.
• IMF: International Monetary Fund; a Bretton Woods institution with global financial stabilisation mandate.
• WHO: World Health Organization; a specialised agency of the UN for global public health.
• SAARC: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation; a regional bloc of select South Asian countries.

Concept / Approach:
The quickest robust discriminator is scope and institutional family. UNICEF and WHO operate under the UN system with global brief; the IMF, though not a UN programme per se, is a global financial institution with worldwide membership and cooperation with the UN system. SAARC, by contrast, is a regional association limited to South Asia. Thus, three items share “global/multilateral agencies with worldwide scope,” while one is “regional intergovernmental bloc.”

Step-by-Step Solution:
1) Identify organisational family and scope for each option.2) Group global agencies together (UNICEF, WHO, IMF).3) Mark SAARC as regional only; select it as the odd one out.

Verification / Alternative check:
Another lens is sectoral mandate: UNICEF (children), WHO (health), IMF (finance) are sectoral functional agencies; SAARC is a geopolitical regional forum rather than a single-sector functional body. This corroborates the selection.

Why Other Options Are Wrong:

• UNICEF: Global UN programme; matches the majority pattern.
• IMF: Global membership and mandate; not regional.
• WHO: Global UN specialised agency; not regional.

Common Pitfalls:
Confusing “intergovernmental” with “UN” specifically. Even if you separate the IMF from UN agencies, the commonality of global scope still groups it with WHO and UNICEF against SAARC.

Final Answer:
SAARC