This action plan describes how DFID will take forward its commitments in water and sanitation and continue to contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in a way that recognises that such efforts are most effective when they support developing country governments' own plans. Through its five sections, the paper makes the following arguments:

- Billions of people lack adequate water and sanitation systems
- Access to safe water is an indicator of international development
- Only 8 out of 44 countries are on track to achieve the water target

This report presents an analysis of the socio-economic impacts of technological change in agriculture and surveys the current evidence regarding the safety of transgenic crops for human health and the environment. It recommends targeted investments in agricultural research, extension and regulatory capacity to ensure that the potential of agricultural biotechnology is brought to bear on the needs of the poor. The document is divided in three parts:

- Agricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor?
- World and regional review: facts and figures
- Statistical annex

This guide describes what care and support programmes are, what a system for monitoring and evaluating care and support should look like, and indicators for monitoring and evaluating various components of a care and treatment programme. Final sections on operations research and related reading are also included. The document is divided as follow:

- What are programmes for HIV/AIDS care and support?
- A monitoring and evaluation system for HIV/AIDS care and support
- Indicators for monitoring and evaluating HIV/AIDS care and support programmes 15
- Operations research.

The objective of this background paper is to use a gendered approach in examining the development financing strategies endorsed in the 2002 Monterrey Consensus. The paper seeks to identify what needs to be done to ensure that gender perspectives are incorporated in the follow up mechanisms to the conference as well as in the broader global effort for economic and gender justice, peace and the realization of human rights.

The paper is organized as follows:
- Section II reviews the different theoretical perspectives and empirical patterns on the relationship between finance

In recent years, much attention has been devoted by international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academics and certain governments to the plight, needs and rights of women affected by armed conflict. Recommendations as to how to ensure the most appropriate responses to the needs of women have also ensued. However, for such work to be truly effective, it needs to be adapted for those who operate in situations of armed conflict.

The aim of this Guidance Document is to provide a working tool to ensure the provision of appropriate programmes

The tenth anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide is on 7 April 2004. The events that ensued represented one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of recent times. Up to a million people were killed in the genocide and civil war; over two million Rwandans became refugees and more than a million were internally displaced. An estimated 80,000 died in camps in Zaire, Tanzania and Rwanda.

The genocide revealed terrible failings in the international community and weaknesses in the international humanitarian

This policy report distills key findings from research commissioned by the International Peace Academy's program on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (EACW) on the regional dimensions of war economies and the
challenges they pose for peacemaking and peacebuilding. Drawing from analytical research as well as case studies of Afghanistan in Central Asia, Sierra Leone in West Africa, and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Southeast Europe, a number of key issues concerning the political economy of regional war economies and lessons for more effective peacebuilding were identified:

To document and understand the gender dynamics of violent conflicts, it is vital to recall the different and coinciding roles played by women and men. This article will review the most important activities, but does not pretend to be exhaustive. For the sake of structuring the following analysis, a distinction will be made between individual, community and state-level analysis.

Agency heads meet with French President Chirac; advocate twin-track approach of emergency assistance and investment
Paris/Rome, 1 March 2004 - In a meeting today with French President Jacques Chirac, the heads of the three Rome-based UN food agencies welcomed the renewed vigour with which hunger and rural poverty are being addressed.

They reiterated their commitment to intensifying support for the efforts of countries to halve hunger and poverty by 2015, one of the primary targets of the Millennium Declaration in 2000.

Today's meeting followed up on the Joint