The Newsletter contains information of professional interest
to RRN members organised under the six headings Feedback,
News Items, Update, Training Courses, Conferences
and Publications.
We are committed to operating a Network which both
serves and ‘belongs’ to its members. Feedback will therefore
provide RRN members with the opportunity to comment
on the contents of previous mailings and express their
views on the operation and future development of the
Network. For this inaugural mailing, Feedback is devoted
to an explanation of the origins of the RRN, its objectives
and our plans for the future.
News Items provides information on selected topics likely
to be of interest to RRN members and, where appropriate,
relevant addresses. In this issue, the section contains
information on: US NGO experience in relation to war risk
insurance cover; an initiative by the EC Humanitarian
Office (ECHO) to set up a European post-graduate degree
course on International Humanitarian Aid; an initiative
supported by Oxfam and NOVIB to establish a support
network for relief workers returning from conflict-affected
areas; a description of the recently established Refugee
Nutrition Information System operated by the UN ACC/
SCN in conjunction with several international and local
NGOs; and finally, a piece describing the UN International
Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction which is approaching
its half-way point.
Update provides summary information on current and
potential humanitarian emergencies, drawing on a variety of
UN, donor and academic sources. The section is aimed at
RRN members who don’t have access to such sources and
who would like to be kept aware of the status of these areas
and the relief operations being implemented.
