The report is based on the widely recognized issue that women and young people are the primary victims of conflict. On this regard, the working group on the Role of Women in Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations met with the following objectives

- To illustrate the critical role of women in reconstruction and stabilization operations
- To provide examples of best practices in supporting women
- To identify the existing gaps in U.S. policy and practice
- To offer concrete recommendations

Recent events in the world of public health, including the International AIDS Conference in Toronto and the $500 million Gates Foundation grant to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, have once again catapulted the issue of global health into the public spotlight. However, chronic disease-an issue often neglected but equally significant to our strategic interests-continues to receive scant attention from the policy community.

Earlier this year, the CSIS Global Strategy Institute hosted Dr. Carolyn Runowicz, the 2005-06 national president of

Preventing outbreaks of diseases like typhoid, dysentery, infectious hepatitis, and other diseases associated with flood waters should now be the major objective of all relief work. Public education on community health should form the basis of intervention.
We urge all organizations involved in flood relief operations to ensure that the following precautions are followed by ALL in order to avoid outbreak of epidemics as flood waters recede.
Community sanitation, proper personal hygiene and immediate treatment of illness are the cornerstones of preventing

This paper, based on the research and findings, considers how WFP mainstreams gender and offers recommendations on enhancing mainstreaming efforts by WFP and UNHCR in the context of food security and displacement. It provides an overview of WFP's age and gender mainstreaming policies and highlights organizational efforts to implement those policies. The study notes areas of progress and limitations of WFP's mainstreaming efforts in relation to food assistance and food security for displaced populations. It also seeks to ascertain how those efforts complement and

Classrooms with teachers; clinics with nurses; running taps and working toilets: for millions of people across developing countries these things are a distant dream. And yet it is these vital public services - health, education, water and sanitation- that are the key to transforming the lives of people living in poverty.

Building strong public services for all is hardly a new idea but it has been proven to work. It should be at the very heart of making poverty history. In the twenty-first century it is a scandal that anyone lives without these most basic of human rights,

As disaster is a regular event and part of life and livelihood in Bangladesh, more or less all the development agencies working in this largest delta have gained significant experiences and competence in disaster mitigation. Many of them are working efficiently in reducing the impacts of hazards by promoting disasterproof infrastructure, early warning system and associated awareness raising programmes as well as improved logistic arrangements and human resource management. As a result, significant developments are now apparent in the field of emergency responses

The report demonstrates how educating girls and women is one huge step towards turning around the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Early in the epidemic - before 1995 - more highly educated women were more vulnerable to HIV than women who were less well educated. They were more highly educated and had better economic prospects, which influenced their lifestyle choices. They were usually more mobile and tended to have a number of sexual partners. But at that stage, there was also a general information vacuum about HIV and AIDS in Africa. As the epidemic has evolved, however, the relationship

The context for aid delivery has changed significantly over the past decade. Amongst these changes are donors' shift towards strengthening the role of the state, their new emphasis on promoting national ownership of the development process with broad participation (including by poor people themselves), and the rise of "partnership" and "accountability" as key principles underpinning these policies. At the same time, many NGOs have moved away from pure service delivery towards supporting poor people's capacity to claim their rights and hold

The aim of this practical guide is to support the implementation of cash programmes in emergencies. It is based on the experience of Oxfam GB over five years (2000-2005) in a variety of disaster contexts.

Oxfam GB has used cash interventions as part of its response to the needs of communities affected by droughts, floods, hurricanes, and cyclones, and the needs of displaced people and people experiencing chronic food insecurity as a result of protracted conflict and/or poverty.

This guide makes extensive reference