Session 2: Complex emergency processes, challenges and programming constraints: Experiences in different contexts

Aims:
To compare food security impacts and programming challenges in a number of complex emergency contexts
Process:
Parallel groups, each with a designated facilitator and rapporteur
Participants names below act as group resources persons
Others sign up according to preference
Plenary report-back and discussion
Outputs:
Key contextual variables which have food security implications
Food security impacts for different social groups
Opportunities for and constraints to provision of assistance
Successes and shortcomings in past international responses
Key implications for research and information systems

Plenary introduction to group work (10 minutes)

Groups and resource persons

Middle East/Central Asia

•  Iraq: Brian Jones, Oxfam
•  Afghanistan: Christian Romer Løvendal, FAO (ESAF)
   Cristina Amaral, FAO (TCE)

Great Lakes

•  DR Congo: Johan Pottier, SOAS, London
•  Uganda: Clement Obonyo Jabwor, Independent consultant

Horn of Africa

•  Somaliland: Fatima Jibrell, Horn Relief
•  Somalia: Christian Bosson, ICRC
   Nisar Majid, SC-UK

Horn of Africa 2

•  Sudan: Luca Alinovi, FAO (ESAF)
•  Ethiopia and Eritrea: Martin Doornbos, ISS, The Hague
   Lionel Cliffe, University of Leeds
   Philp White, FAO (ESAF)

Southern Africa

•  Stephen Devereux, IDS, Susses
•  Mark Smulders, FAO (ESAF)
•  Günter Hemrich, FAO (ESAF)