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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.

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

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:

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).

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.

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

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

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?