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Strengthening responses to the Triple Threat in the Southern Africa region - learning from field programmes in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia

Joint Project of Southern Africa Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), Concern Worldwide (CW) and Oxfam International (OI)

June 2006

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Malawi

A number of Concern Worldwide and Oxfam-International projects were visited in Malawi between the 23rd and 28th of April as part of the joint project on strengthening responses to the Triple Threat of HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and weakening capacity for service delivery in the Southern African region1. The project consisted of a blend of policy level discussions with organisations such as Concern, the Joint Oxfam Programme in Malawi (JOPM), Word Alive Ministries, Evangelical Lutheran Development Service, and Mponela AIDS Information and Counselling Centre and on-site reflections of field staff and community meetings currently engaged in development work in Blantyre, Dowa, Phalombe and Mulanje Districts. The objective was to debate and document the experiences and understanding of practitioners engaged in supporting communities to achieve livelihood security taking account of factors underpinning a complex situation.

Malawi report - 58Kb < 1min (8 pages)


Mozambique

A number of Concern Worldwide and Oxfam-International offices and partner organisations were visited in Mozambique between the 9th and 17th of April as part of the joint project on strengthening responses to the Triple Threat of HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and weakening capacity for service delivery in the Southern African region1. The project consisted of a blend of policy level discussions with organisations such as Concern, Uniгo Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with on-site discussions with field staff currently engaged in development work in Manica Province. The objective was to debate and document the experiences and understanding of practitioners engaged in supporting communities to achieve livelihood security taking account of factors underpinning a complex situation.

Alguns escritуrios da Concern Worldwide e da Oxfam-International e outras organizaзхes associadas foram visitados em Moзambique entre os dias 9 e 17 de Abril, como fazendo parte de um projecto conjunto sobre o fortalecimento das respostas а Tripla Ameaзa de HIV/SIDA, inseguranзa alimentar e menor capacidade de organizaзгo na regiгo da Бfrica Austral. O projecto consistia de uma mistura de discussхes a nнvel polнtico com organizaзхes, tais como a Concern, a Uniгo Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC) e a Organizaзгo das Naзхes Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentaзгo (FAO) com reuniхes in loco, com pessoal de campo correntemente empenhado no desenvolvimento da Provнncia de Manica. O objectivo era debater e documentar as experiкncias e o conhecimento de mйdicos empenhados em prestar apoio аs comunidades locais, de modo a salvaguardar os meios de subsistкncia, tendo em conta os factores subjacentes a tгo complexa situaзгo.

Mozambique report - 52Kb < 1min (9 pages)
Portuguese: Mozambique report - 65Kb < 1min (10 pages)


Zambia

A number of Concern Worldwide and Oxfam-International projects were visited in Zambia between the 1st and 10th of May as part of the joint project on strengthening responses to HIV/AIDS in the Southern African region. The trip consisted of a blend of policy level discussions with organisations such as Concern, Oxfam-GB, Women for Change, and HODI and on-site reflections of field staff currently engaged in development work in Mongu District in Western Province. Essentially the objective was to debate and document the experiences and understanding of practitioners engaged in supporting communities to achieve livelihood security taking account of HIV.

Zambia report - 52Kb < 1min (8 pages)


Footnotes:
  1. The underlying problems of HIV/AIDS, food insecurity and weakening capacity for service delivery (triple threat) is rapidly reversing development gains, leaving communities and whole societies more vulnerable to external shocks, such as the effects of the dry-spell that impacted the region in late 2005.


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