Introduction

In 2006 the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI) launched a new program to strengthen research capacity for African-led HIV/AIDS prevention trials in sub-Saharan Africa, a region which remains at the centre of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. The goal of the program was to provide an opportunity for African researchers and institutions to develop their capacity to carry out future clinical trials of HIV vaccines and other prevention technologies.

To achieve this goal, the capacity building

I. Introduction

1. En mars 2010, les gouvernements se réuniront à New York pour examiner les progrès accomplis dans la mise en oeuvre du Programme d'action de Beijing, 10 ans après son adoption. Dans ce contexte, l'Afrique, soutenue par la Commission économique pour l'Afrique (CEA) dresse le bilan des actions menées pour atteindre les objectifs convenus en 2004 à Addis-Abeba, lors de la septième Conférence régionale africaine

A report commissioned by World Vision International September 2008

Executive summary

For the past several decades, assistance strategies of humanitarian aid agencies such as World Vision have focused on the direct provision of goods and services to meet basic needs and rebuild livelihoods. Meanwhile, cash transfers are increasingly accepted as an alternative way to assist people reeling from the impact of crisis.

The terms 'cash-based response' and 'cash

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This review of Phase I of the technical assistance (TA) General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) project (2001-2006) for 15 Anglophone African countries(1) - funded by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) and executed jointly by the Fund and the World Bank - (henceforth, referred to as the Anglophone African (AAf) project) focuses mostly on the components that were implemented by the Fund's Statistics Department (STA). The review draws on various internal

The overall goal of this review is to contribute to a strengthening of livelihoods-based Food Security Information Systems (FSIS) within governments, UN agencies and other institutions. It is hoped that by reviewing the extensive experience of Save the Children UK in supporting FSIS over the past 15-20 years that key lessons can be extracted to strengthen future FSIS activities. The paper is based largely on a number of case-study documents compiled by Save the Children UK practitioners. These deal with FSIS in south Sudan, Darfur, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia

1. Background
In September 2002, World Vision Partnership declared seven countries in Southern Africa as Category III emergency. This is the highest level of response and covered Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Mozambique. In the past 12 months the SAFER response has reached US $250 million and has served 3.2 million people in the areas of food aid, agricultural recovery, health and nutrition, Water and sanitation and HIV/AIDS.