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The article discusses the protection needs of children and adolescent refugees, wherein the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) states that resettlement for refugees will serve as their tool for protection. Topics discussed include the resettlement program, the refugees legal status, and the social welfare services.

El artículo discurre sobre la importancia del reasentamiento para los niños refugiados. Las autoras comentan sobre la vulnerabilidad de los niños en riesgo y describen el trabajo de gobiernos y organizaciones internacionales en el proceso de reasentamiento. También se considera el estado actual así como los desafíos del futuro de este proceso.

The idea that 'knowledge itself is power' is not new; but at the global level, this dictum is now truer than ever, as a result of rapid advances in information technology in the North. Increasingly, knowledge (including the capacity to create it) is becoming a key economic input which, at the extreme, supersedes land, capital and labour in importance. The revolution in information technology and communications has direct implications for the South and for development studies: not only in obvious ways (e.g. in the generation of statistics and satellite images); but also in less predictable ways, notably the emergence of participatory methods for data collection and analysis. Participatory techniques, just like changes in more conventional sources of information, are in part a result of - and dependent on - the international communications revolution. Innovation in information is not intrinsically bad, but it is driven by the North and by northern agendas. Drawing together work carried out at IDS and elsewhere, this Bulletin explores the implications of this change for development. It focuses on the ways in which information is - or is not - used in decision-making which affects development policy, planning and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An experimental seasonal rainfall forecast for the African Sahel as a whole has been issued by the UK Meteorological Office for each year since 1986. The scientific aspects of the forecast, including its current and possible future status, have been discussed in Pari I†† of this paper. Here, we examine how the forecast might be applied, and assess the impacts it may have on potential users in Africa. Five groups of users of the rainfall forecasts are identified: hydrological forecasters, crop production modellers, international food aid agencies, national public and para-statal institutions, and local rural communities. The different decision-making process of each of these user groups, and consequently their differing potential to benefit from forecast information, are discussed in turn. It is suggested that forecasts will have their most immediate use at national international level, but that improvements instutional efficiency and interaction will need to be made before the potential benefits of the forecasts can be realised. Rural communities are least likely to obtain direct benefits from the forecast, but potentially there are indirect benefits to such communities if the information is correctly used at other levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An experimental seasonal rainfall forecast for the African Sahel as a whole has been issued by the UK Met. Office for each year sinee 1986. The forecast is issued in the May or June preceding the wet season (mainly the months July to September). Currently, this forecast is communicated directly to National Met. Agencies in the African Sahel who make various uses of it. For the experimental forecast to beeome operational, several questions need to be addressed: to what extent can the spatial and temporal resolution of the forecast be refined? can the likelihood of a particularly poor forecast be estimated in advance? how best, and to whom, should the forecast be communicated in order to maximise usefulness? what potential benefits are likely to accrue from operational forecasts? and how can the abuse of forecast information be minimised? This paper defines some preliminary answers to these questions drawing upon a range of disciplinary perspectives. In Part I, the current, and possible future, status of the rainfall forecast is summarised and placed in the context of existing climate information in Africa. In Part II † † the application of the forecast and its possible impact on five groups of potential users of these rainfall forecasts is discussed. It is suggested that forecasts will have their most immediate use at national and international level, but that improvements in institutional efiiciency and interaction will need to be made before the potential benefits of the forecasts can be realised. Rural communities are least likely to obtain direct benefits from the forecast, but potentially there are indirect benefits to such communities if the information is correctly used at other levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]