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Towards Shared Social Learning for Humanitarian Programmes

Report
ALNAP
This study explores the actual and potential role of consultation with or participation by populations affected by emergencies in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes to assist them.

It focuses on "shared social learning", i.e. processes of working with people to discover and understand their own social and cultural ideas, realities and actual practices of meeting immediate survival needs in times of severe stress. Examining the appropriateness, feasibility, and effectiveness of some of the numerous methods of social
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Conflict and Peace Analysis and Response Manual

This manual offers a framework for understanding trends in areas of potential and actual conflict, as well as identifying approaches for conflict prevention, reduction and peace building. For this purpose, it includes the following sections:

 - Analysing the conflict
 - Analysing the steps toward peace
 - Formulating response option

Drawing on theoretical developments in the field of conflict early warning and FEWER's operational experiences, the document provides a tool for assessing conflict or potential conflict situations
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Protection in Practice: Field-Level Strategies for Protecting Civilians from Deliberate Harm

Arguing that international organisations present in areas where violations occur have an obligation to act in ways to enhance the protection of civilians, this paper offers examples of specific strategies and tactics which have been used in the field to prevent or mitigate abuses. The following chapters are included:

- Protection: What is it and who does it?
- Field-level protection strategies
- Protecting endangered groups
- The role of NGO relief organisations in protection

The paper aims to contribute to the increased
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Food Aid Logistics Operational Handbook

Report
CARE
The handbook is designed to provide logistics managers and NGO program staff with basic information and guidance in planning and establishing a supply chain to deliver food aid. For this purpose, it outlines the eight main steps required.

The handbook is intended to complement manuals, guidelines, and handbooks already developed and available to most PVO/NGO managers of food aid.
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Albania + 4 others
Kosovo Crisis Fact Sheet # 84

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)

Regional: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Kosovo VIEW MAP

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Serbia + 1 other
U.N. Mission appoints new judges in Kosovo

Pristina (dpa) - The U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Wednesday swore in the province's first new judges and prosecutors.

Sergio Vieira de Mello, special emissary of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, appointed nine members of the judiciary in Pristina.

UNMIK said they would first deal with the cases of 221 suspects who have been detained by the KFOR peacekeeping forces during the past three weeks over criminal offences.

Those appointed on Wednesday under Kosovo's new U.N.-administered judicial system are two investigating magistrates,

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La Niña phenomenon disappearing

American scientists say satellite photographs indicate the weather-altering La Nina phenomenon has all but vanished from the Pacific Ocean.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports the pool of unusually cool tropical water marked by low sea levels has shrunk and the equatorial Pacific is warming to normal temperatures.

But they cautioned that, like its warm counterpart El Nino, a La Nina condition will influence global climate and weather until it has completely subsided.

La Nina had shrunk several times and grown again over the past 12 months.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

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Eritrea + 1 other
Horn of Africa war escalates under heavy rains

by Guebray Berhane

MAYE DOGALE, on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border, June 30 (AFP) - Fighting between Ethiopian and Eritrean troops has escalated over the past week on the western front of the Horn of Africa border war despite heavy rains.

Sunday and Monday saw heavy artillery duels in the area, where fighting has persisted since Friday, according to an Ethiopian officer.

Foreign observers said both sides were trying to secure a strategic advantage before the rainy season sets in completely. It is due to last until mid-September.

"The enemy has tried several times

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Guinea + 1 other
Guinea: No ban on Sierra Leonean men, government says

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IRIN
ABIDJAN, 1 July (IRIN) - Guinea has denied a news report published on Thursday that it had banned men from Sierra Leone from entering the country by sea.
The chairman of Guinea's Bureau national de coordination des refugies (National Refugee Coordination Office) told IRIN on Thursday: "Guinea has never, never restricted (the entry of) Sierra Leonean males."

The official, Alhousseine Thiam, said there had been cases of boats coming to Guinea with some people requesting refuge and others - businessmen - saying they had no intention of staying.

IRIN:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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EU Pledges to Finance Peace Process in War-torn Countries

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Xinhua
HARARE (July 1) XINHUA - European Union (EU) has said it is planning to establish a cooperation and peace process to enable it to start development projects in war-torn developing countries.
"There are tens and tens of millions of Euro meant for developmental projects lying idle and cannot be used until peace is attained in those countries," EU representative to Zimbabwe Asger Pillegaard said here Wednesday.

Pillegaard was speaking at a hand-over ceremony of the EU presidency in Harare from Germany to Finland, the Zimbabwe News Agency reported Thursday.

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Angola + 3 others
New threat emerges to DRCongo peace talks

KIGALI, July 1 (AFP) - A new threat emerged Thursday to efforts to end the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) when the military chief of the main rebel group threatened to pull out of peace talks if a rival took part.
Jean-Pierre Ondekane, head of the Congolese National Army, the military wing of the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), told Agence France-Presse: "If Wamba dia Wamba takes part in these negotiations or signs the ceasefire agreement the RCD will pull out and the fighting will resume."

Wamba dia Wamba was sacked as head of

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Serbia + 1 other
Kosovo massacre site assumes historic significance

by Michel Moutot

RACAK, Yugoslavia, July 1 (AFP) - Of Kosovo's martyred villages, one in particular is set to have lasting significance for the province's ethnic Albanian population.

For it was the massacre at Racak of 45 people by the Yugoslav military on January 15 which ignited international indignation and set off a historic chain of events.

The attack on a fleeing column of some 40 civilians, old men, women and children escorted by guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army was witnessed by observers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

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UN not yet sending Kosovo refugees home from Bosnia

SARAJEVO, July 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday it would start organised returns of Kosovo Albanian refugees accommodated in Bosnia only after minimum safety conditions for their journey back are fulfilled.

"We are not assisting Kosovars right now," a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Wendy Rappeport, told a news conference in Sarajevo.

UNHCR has been assisting with bus tickets only Moslem refugees from Serbia's Sandzak region, situated just north

Reuters - AlertNet:



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Iraq raps "weakness" of UN secretariat in oil-for-food contracts

BAGHDAD, July 1 (AFP) - Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan on Thursday rapped the "weakness" of the UN secretariat general in the face of an alleged US-British campaign to delay humanitarian contracts for sanctions-hit Iraq.

The official news agency INA said Ramadan raised the issue of delayed contracts in a meeting with visiting UN envoy Benon Sevan who heads the organisation's humanitarian programme for Iraq.

He deplored "the weakness of the UN secretariat general, which is in charge of implementing the oil-for-food

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Angola: Reducing aid dependency in Huambo

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IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 1 July (IRIN) - A large scale agricultural assistance programme has been launched in Angola's central highlands to overcome increasing food shortages and reduce people's dependence on food aid, the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told IRIN on Thursday.
The scheme aims to benefit an estimated 62,000 families, both residents and displaced, on the Planalto. In the current first phase of the two stage programme, which corresponds to the areas' two growing seasons, agricultural supplies are to be distributed
IRIN:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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Serbia + 1 other
OSCE to send new mission to Kosovo

Vienna (dpa) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday decided to send a new mission to Kosovo.

The move was given the go-ahead by the OSCE's Permanent Council in Vienna.

The mission will comprise 700 people. They will play a major role in establishing democratic institutions and human rights in the province.

In addition, elections need to be organised while police and administrative staff need to be trained, the OSCE said. dpa jp

AP-NY-07-01-99 1128EDT

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Burundi + 4 others
Africa Great Lakes region: humanitarian aid worth euro 53.31 million

IP/99/441
Brussels, 1st July 1999 - The European Commission has approved humanitarian aid worth a total of euro 53.31 million for countries in the Great Lakes region of Africa -- Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The aid, managed by the European Community Humanitarian office, will enable humanitarian agencies to carry out programmes over the next eight months. Euro 20 million is for food aid, and the balance of euro 33.31 million is for other relief items and services.

Food aid: euro 20 million