The Southern Africa food crisis
Natural disaster, political failure 2
Towards a Southern African solution 4
Fighting famine: steps out of the crisis 7
Rethinking early-warning systems 10
Protecting livelihoods during drought: some market-related approaches 14
Real-time learning in the Southern Africa food crisis 17
Practice notes
CELPA: a local response to Congo’s conflict 19
Income-generation in post-conflict situations: is micro-finance a useful strategy? 21
NGOs and practical protection in humanitarian crises 23
Finding, developing and keeping programme managers: a sector-wide problem 26
Institutionalising Sphere: 2000–2002 29
The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund: a ‘lack-of-Trust’ Fund for Afghanistan? 31
Policy notes
Hard choices: a critical review of UNHCR’s community development approach in Nepal 34
The regional focus of Australian aid 37
War, money and aid 40
Endpiece
The war on terror’s challenge to humanitarian action 44