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

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

GENEVA, Oct 1 (UNHCR) - Afghanistan's minister for refugees and his counterparts from Iran and Pakistan meeting in Geneva have called for continued strong support from donor states in order to ensure the successful reintegration of millions of Afghan refugees still outside their homeland.
Speaking at the annual meeting of UNHCR's Executive Committee in Geneva Tuesday, Enayatullah Nazari, Minister for Refugees and Repatriation of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, said that his country requires high levels of financial assistance to ensure its reconstruction.

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #12, dated September 24, 2003.

Background

Map created by the UNHCR GIS Unit - Sri Lanka
Data Sources: UNHCR, Ministry of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Refugees, September 2003

Map created by the UNHCR GIS Unit - Sri Lanka
Data Sources: UNHCR, Ministry of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Refugees, September 2003

Main issues
Weather: Normal rainfall is expected over much of Zambia for the coming season

The principal factors taken into account by the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) are the current state of the neutral conditions of the sea-surface temperatures in the Indian, Atlantic and the Equatorial Pacific Oceans.

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Guests: Mr. Abou Moussa, Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, UNDP, Dr. Omar Khatib, Country Representative, WHO, Mr. Justin Bagirishya, Country Representative, WFP, Mr. Thiru Gnanasambanthar, FAO, Elizabeth Odour-Noah, Deputy Country Representative, Mr. Martin Bucumi, Deputy Country Representative, UNHCR, Mr. Samuel Momanyi Deputy Country Representative, UNICEF, Mr. Farah Muktar, Head of Mission, OCHA

STATEMENT

I will characterize the over all situation in Liberia as a turning point. We are on the eve of the deployment