Lesson 11: Health, HIV/AIDS and Food Aid Issues in DDR Programmes

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Lesson Eleven provides details relating to health, HIV/AIDS and food issues in DDR programmes. UN technical agencies play a supportive role within a DDR framework, and the World Health Organization has a specific responsibility as far as health is concerned. The exact nature of this role may change in different situations, ranging from setting standards to direct operational responsibilities such as contracting with and supervising non-governmental organizations and delivering health care and health-related activities in assembly areas and demobilization sites. Food agencies such as the World Food Programme are normally already involved in large-scale life-saving and livelihood protection programmes in support of vulnerable and war-affected civilian communities and displaced populations. These agencies are often asked to support DDR programmes by providing specifically designed food assistance to the disarmed or ex-combatants and their dependants.