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Food aid and the politics in number in Ethiopia (2002-2004)

This study sheds light on the mechanisms producing the official data used by humanitarian aid decision makers. It views Early Warning Systems (EWS) as tools that facilitate consensus between the decision-makers involved in the allocation of food aid, enabling them to reach institutional agreements. This argument is strengthened by a socio-theoretical analysis and by ethnographic observation of experts' practice in Ethiopia (2002-2004), whose results of food aid evaluations appear as a combination of empirical and political factors.
 

François Enten
01/11/2008

Response to Ebola, Bundibugyo, Uganda - Lessons learned from the MSF intervention

Internal report An Ebola outbreak was declared in Uganda on 29th of November 2007. An MSF Intervention took place between 1st of December 2007 and 18th January 2008. This report summarises, after general issues, the main points on intersection coordination, coordination with other/external actors, human resources management, expat health and project set up.

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09/06/2008

Humera, Ethiopia Lessons Learnt: Handover of the HIV Program to the Bureau of Health - 'Ten Months On'

The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the handover of the HIV program to the Bureau of Health (BoH) in the Kahsay Abera Hospital (KAH), Humera, Ethiopia, in 2007. The lessons learnt during the handover process could be of value to other MSF teams faced with an impeding handover of activities to the local health structure. A document in this vein was written directly following the handover in July 2007 however this current text acts as an updated version using the knowledge gained during the ten months following handover.

17/03/2008

Strategic Review Process for the HIV/AIDS Adherence Counsellors Organisation

The formation of HAACO was initiated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who had been operating a HIV/AIDS project since 1999 in Khayalitsha in the Western Cape and since 2003 in rural Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape province. Most of the services provided by the MSF project were handed over to the DoH. However the adherence element was not. The DoH had neither the financial nor the structural capacity to take on the Adherence programme. Hence the formation of HAACO. This process was intended to review the strategic options for the future of HAACO.

Sunjay Panday and Loretta van Schalkwyk
20/02/2008