Informes

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOREWORD TO THE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL 2006 The past year has been a wretched one for millions of disaster victims. It dawned with the Indian Ocean tsunami, saw a hurricane season unrivalled in living memory strike…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Education: A meeting between Government representatives, UN agencies and donors was organised on 25 November to continue the dialogue among partners working in the education sector. Participants discussed progress made further to the conclusions of previous meetings and…

ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES Food security: The food security situation in Burundi is deteriorating; particularly in the northern and eastern provinces. This is the result of a combination of factors. Further to poor rainfalls the usual lean period has been prolonged.…

HIGHLIGHTS Update on education: Education partners continue to support the Free Education Programme for primary schools that was launched by the Government of Burundi at the beginning of the school year 2005-2006. In this regard, UNICEF has begun delivery of…

HIGHLIGHTS Update on Rwandan asylum seekers: Of the approximately 3,500 Rwandan asylum seekers dispersed across Northern provinces some 1,300 relocated to Mivo in Ngozi province. WFP and UNHCR in collaboration with partner NGOs including IRC and Handicap International-France continued to assist…

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) continues to help Burundians regain and retain their dignity by alleviating suffering and poverty and by promoting a culture of peace as the coordinating agency for emergency assistance in the country. Despite the daily dangers…

HIGHLIGHTS Rwandan Asylum seekers: Delegations from the Rwandan and Burundian ministries of local administration and the interior respectively held a meeting in Ngozi on 17 October on the issue of Rwandan asylum seekers located in the northern provinces of Burundi.…

HIGHLIGHTS The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has completed a monitoring survey amongst resident and returnees population of Nyanza-Lac and Kayogoro Communes in Makamba Provinces. The survey report highlights the actual conditions of resettlement and reinsertion in these communes of high concentration…

HIGHLIGHTS "Mother-To-Child" health in Burundi: within the framework of its health activities, UNICEF in collaboration with WHO provides technical support to the Ministry of Public Health through organization of activities related to the "Mother-To-Child" week. This event that is held every…

HIGHLIGHTS Up to 75 representatives of government departments, UN agencies, NGOs, international organizations and donors participated in a one-day workshop for the preparation of the 2006 Common Humanitarian Action Plan and Consolidated Appeal (CHAP/CAP) on 12 September. The objective of the…