This Programme Update is intended for reporting on Annual Appeals.
Period covered: 1 January - 30 June 2001

Appeal Target CHF 3,380,971

Period covered: 1 July - 31 December 2000

This report includes: (A) South East Asia: Indonesia/West Timor and East Timor; (B) West and Central Asia: Afghanistan and Tajikistan; (C) Southern Caucasus: Georgia and Armenia; (D) Vietnam; (E) Iraq; (F) Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Sudan; (G) Angola; (H) Burundi; (I) Sierra Leone.
From Francesco Strippoli, Senior Humanitarian Adviser. Available on the Internet on the WFP Home, Page or by e-mail from Zlatan.Milisic@wfp.org. For information on resources, donors are requested to contact Marius.deGaayFortman@wfp.org at WFP Rome, telephone 39 06 6513

JAKARTA (July 19) XINHUA - As many as 547 East Timorese refugees have died due to several reasons in their camps in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara Province from September 1999 until May 2000, a report reaching here said Wednesday.

"Data collected by local officials showed that 547 East Timorese refugees have died, until second week of May this year," Antara news agency quoted Governor of East Nusa Tenggara province, Piet A Tallo as saying.

"But through a joint cooperation with the UNHCR ( United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), we have

Catholic Relief Services stands committed to the people of Indonesia
Earthquakes Off the Coast of Sumatra:

Catholic Relief Services staff in Bengkulu and will continue to help provide food, building materials and medicine to affected families.

The June 4th earthquake and several strong aftershocks rocked Sumatra Island. The earthquake's epicenter was beneath the Indian Ocean, approximately 70 miles west of Bengkulu, a province that is home to 1.2 million people. The agency is working with Caritas Indonesia and local partners to coordinate relief assistance as needed.

This issue is produced by the Office of Communication and Public Information (OCPI) in cooperation with the Donor Coordination Unit. It contains information through the second week of June 2000.
INTRODUCTION

Severe flooding caused problems in East Timor, particularly in Suai, Viqueque and Lospalos. The situation was, however, much worse in West Timor, where tens of thousands of people had been displaced and 127 confirmed dead, mostly women and children. The majority of the casualties were East Timorese living in low-lying refugee camps.

Press Release SC/6882
The Secretary-General's Special Representative for East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, told the Security Council today that he expected elections for a constituent assembly to be held in the second half of next year.

Briefing the Council on the situation in the territory, Mr. Vieira de Mello said it was most likely that, prior to the elections, the National Council for East Timorese Resistance would recommend the establishment of a broad constitutional commission to draft a constitution.

Surveillance
The Provincial Department of Health's Refugee Health Task Force, in cooperation with a visiting WHO epidemiological consultant, have released cumulative refugee morbidity and mortality data through week 21of 2000.

Epidemiological data reported from 40 sentinel refugee sites encompass approximately 90,000 refugees. Average reporting compliance of sentinel sites during the period was 70%.

Mortality

Cumulative through week 21, available data reveal 230 refugee deaths. Estimated crude mortality rate from this

Dili, 7 June 2000
HEALTH GRANT SIGNED

The World Bank administered Trust Fund for East Timor and UNTAET today signed a US$12,7 million grant for the health sector.

This grant, a first phase in rehabilitating the health sector in East Timor, will be used to develop health services in the territory and to restore access to these services to the entire population as soon as possible. Part of the grant will be used for the development of a policy for an appropriate national health system.

The agreement was signed on behalf of