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01 Oct 2003

World
International Cooperation on Humanitarian Assistance in the Field of Natural Disasters, from Relief to Development: Report of the Secretary-General (A/58/434)

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— UN General Assembly
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This report highlights key activities undertaken to respond to natural disasters and reflects some of the initiatives undertaken to strengthen disaster management efforts at the national and regional levels, as well as provides information on the funding trends for natural disaster response.

The report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 57/152, as well as subsequent decisions of the General Assembly on this subject matter.
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01 Oct 2003

World
Rethinking Food Aid to Fight Aids

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— International Food Policy Research Institute
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This paper highlights the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for food aid and strategy and programming.

For this purpose, it emphasises the need for viewing food aid programs through an 'HIV/AIDS' lens and in the context of a livelihoods approach in order to design effective interventions reducing both susceptibility to HIV and vulnerability to AIDS impacts.

The paper is based on a detailed review of the relevant literature and the findings of a mission to eastern and southern Africa.
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01 Oct 2003

World
Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB Wokshop on Women's Land Rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

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— Oxfam
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 The report summarises the papers, presentations and discussions of a workshop on failures and achievements at securing women's land rights. In particular, it addresses the following issues:
 
 - Land rights and legal reforms
 - Legal aid and land administration practice
 - Women's land rights in an HIV/AIDS context
 - Women's land rights from a food security and livelihoods context

Organised by the FAO and Oxfam, the workshop seeks to establish global and multi-sectoral alliances and multiple strategies
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01 Oct 2003

World
Changes in Humanitarian Financing: Implications for the United Nations

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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This document seeks to understand how the competitive aid environment is evolving, and how the United Nations could be best configured to provide maximum benefit to beneficiaries while remaining an attractive option for donors. The document contains the following chapters:

- The competitive aid environment: Implications and consequences
- Perceptions of performance: The UN's value-added
- Enhancing performance
- Structural and procedural implications of strategic refocusing
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Epilogue: Humanitarian futures
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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01 Oct 2003

World
Partnering with Local Organizations to Support the Reproductive Health of Adolescent Refugees: A Three-year Analysis

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— Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
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This document offers an assessment of the EBP Fund for Reproductive Health Care and Rights for Adolescent Refugees, established in June 2000. For this purpose, it examines the following issues:

- Vulnerability of adolescents in armed conflicts, which required the creation of the EBP Fund
-  Implementation of the Fund
-  Fund accomplishments
-  Lessons learnt through the implementation of the Fund
- Strategic plan to increase efficiency and coordination, supporting reproductive health of conflict-affected adolescents

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01 Oct 2003

World
Policy Discussion Paper on Violent Conflict

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— ActionAid
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This paper seeks to identify a distinctive approach to conflict to permit ActionAid to align its programmes around a common understanding, develop new programmes focused on agreed priorities, and take a coherent public position on conflict issues. For this purpose, it deals with the following issues:


- ActionAid's values and understanding relating to conflict
- Conflict and violence
- Neutrality, impartiality and human security
- Linking the responses
- The policy
- Key areas of response

The policy statement is the result of a process
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01 Oct 2003

World
When Forced Migrants Return "Home": The Psychological Difficulties Returnees Encounter in the Reintegration Process

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— Refugee Studies Centre
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With voluntary repatriation being increasingly promoted by governments, NGOs, and UN agencies as the ultimate solution to refugee's displacement, this paper tries to draw attention to some of the psychological complexities returnees actually encounter. The analysis focuses on the psychological difficulties that follow voluntary repatriation, and addresses the following issues:

- The practice of voluntary repatriation over the last 50 years
- Psychological analysis of voluntary repatriation
- Implications

The paper was originally submitted in
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01 Oct 2003

World
Integrating Early Warning into Disaster Risk Reduction Policies

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
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This paper explains why early warning for disaster reduction should be a legitimate matter of public policy at the highest national levels, and describes the key elements for its successful implementation.

The paper addresses public authorities and should be seen as a tool to support the successful application of the existing Guiding Principles for Effective Early Warning produced during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR, 1990-1999).
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01 Oct 2003

World
Is Humanitarianism Being Politicised? A Reply to David Rieff

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— Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
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Humanitarianism is always politicized somehow. It is a political project in a political world. Its mission is a political one - to restrain and ameliorate the use of organised violence in human relations and to engage with power in order to do so. Powers that are either sympathetic or unsympathetic to humanitarian action in war always have an interest in shaping it their way.

The "politicization of humanitarianism" is not an outrage in itself. Ethics and politics are not opposites. There can be good politics, bad politics and some politics that are better than
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01 Oct 2003

World
Secretary-General's Bulletin: Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ST/SGB/2003/13

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— UN Secretary-General
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The Secretary-General, for the purpose of preventing and addressing cases of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, and taking into consideration General Assembly resolution 57/306 of 15 April 2003, "Investigation into sexual exploitation of refugees by aid workers in West Africa", promulgates the following document in consultation with Executive Heads of separately administered organs and programmes of the United Nations.
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01 Oct 2003

World
Key Issues in Emergency Needs Assessment Volume I: Report of the Technical Meeting

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— World Food Programme
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In March, 2003 an inter-agency meeting, the WFP-Partner Consultation on Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA), was held in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. The meeting explored current issues in the assessment of food security in emergencies and formulated a number of tentative conclusions and recommendations. One of the next steps identified by the Partner Consultation participants was to hold technical meetings to address key outstanding issues in ENA.

The subsequent Technical Meeting: Key Issues in Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA) was organised by WFP's Emergency
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01 Oct 2003

World
A Review of the Advances and Challenges in Nutrition in Conflicts and Crises over the Last 20 Years

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— Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project
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The main purpose of this paper is to assess the principle advances made over the past years in nutrition in conflicts and crises and to propose direction for further advances in the field. The term 'advances' refers to developments in technical knowledge and nutrition policy and practice. The Project Cycle Management is used as a framework for presenting these advances and the challenges that remain.

Specifically, the paper considers the objectives of the advances and describes how well they have been achieved; Determines the challenges and issues which still exist in relation to the
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01 Oct 2003

World
Beyond Greed and Grievance: Policy Lessons from Studies in the Political Economy of Armed Conflict

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— International Peace Academy
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Executive Summary

This policy report provides a synopsis of the key findings from case studies on the political economy of armed intra-state conflicts, commissioned by the International Peace Academy's program on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (EAC W ) . These findings offer lessons for improved policies for conflict prevention and resolution.

- Combatants' incentives for self-enrichment and/or opportunities for insurgent mobilization created by access to natural and financial resources were neither the primary nor sole cause of the
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01 Oct 2003

World
Refugees and 'Other Forced Migrants'

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— Refugee Studies Centre
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One of the inspirations for this Workshop was the recently established 'Higher Education Link', sponsored by the British Council and funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), between Addis Ababa University (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Politics and International Relations and the Faculty of Law) and the University of Oxford (Refugee Studies Centre). The principal aim of the link is to foster collaboration in research and teaching between the linked departments in the field of forced migration and to encourage
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01 Oct 2003

World
Key Issues in Emergency Needs Assessment Volume II: Background Technical Papers

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— World Food Programme
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The aim of this paper is to identify the key issues and outstanding issues in ensuring that needs assessments identify the most appropriate type of intervention for improving food security in emergencies. In particular, the paper focuses on ways of ensuring that the appropriateness of "nonfood interventions" is taken into consideration during assessments.

The following questions are addressed:
- How do we define "food aid" and "food aid alternatives"?
- In what circumstances are food aid and different food aid alternatives appropriate?
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01 Oct 2003

World
AusAID Annual Report 2002-2003

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— Australian Agency for International Development
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The year in review

In 2002-03 AusAID encountered a rapidly changing international and regional environment marked by rising concerns over security. The aid program played an important part in Australia's responses to the Bali bombings, the war against Iraq and the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Concerns over the performance of a number of our close regional neighbours led to new demands on Australia.

In the midst of these developments, the Minister for Foreign Affairs made his 11th Statement to Parliament, Australian

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01 Oct 2003

Iraq
Violence erupts at Iraqi jobless protests

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— Reuters - AlertNet
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Protests by frustrated jobless Iraqis in two cities turned violent on Wednesday as demonstrators threw rocks and set cars ablaze while local security forces responded with gunfire.

In central Baghdad, a few dozen protesters looking for work at a U.S.-backed local security force hurled rocks at the building. Flames and black smoke poured from a police car and a civilian vehicle while gunfire echoed around the area.

In the northern city of Mosul, a much larger crowd threw rocks at an employment office before marching to a local

Reuters - AlertNet:



For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.trust.org/alertnet

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01 Oct 2003

Bangladesh
Bangladesh: Rainfall and river situation summary as on 01 Oct 2003

Report
— Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre
OUTLOOK
The flood situation in the district of Chapai-Nawabganj, Manikganj and Munshiganj will continue to improve further.

RAINFALL

Almost nil rainfall has been recorded over the country during the last 24 hours ending at 9 A.M. today except 10.5 mm at Panchagarh.

GENERAL RIVER CONDITION

Most of the Rivers in the Brahmaputra, the Ganges, the Meghna and the South Eastern Hill basin recorded fall. Out of 85 monitoring stations of the country, 9 points recorded rise, 54 points recorded fall and 3 points remained steady of which a total of 2

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01 Oct 2003

Tajikistan
Tajikistan: Food deficit Appeal No. 26/01 - Final Report

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— IFRC
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This Final Report is intended for reporting on emergency appeals
Launched on 21 August 2001 for nine months for CHF 6,795,218

Programme was first extended for four months until 30 September 2002, than extended for another six months until 31 March 2003.

Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: CHF 150,000 Beneficiaries: 130,000

Operational Developments:

In the summer of 2000, a fter three consecutive years of reduced harvests, a devastating drought hit Tajikistan. Two assessments in 2001 - by the International Federation and World Food Programme/Food

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01 Oct 2003

Côte d'Ivoire + 3 others
1% for West Africa

Report
— US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Just 1% of $87 billion for Iraq/Afghanistan could help meet West Africa's most pressing needs
Washington, D.C., October 1, 2003 - The U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) has called on Congress to allocate 1% of the Iraq/Afghanistan Emergency Supplemental, currently under consideration on Capital Hill, to the unmet humanitarian, reconstruction and conflict prevention needs in war-torn West Africa. USCR is one of several humanitarian, human rights, and refugee advocacy groups asking Congress to designate a tiny fraction of the funds proposed for Iraq and

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