Issues related to changing consumption patterns, subsidising food, nutritional education, and the options for reducing the opportunity cost of education need to be explored. At this level we also need to deal with the investment climate to provide inputs to make farming more efficient, increase the availability and reduce the cost of credit, and encourage individual and community saving schemes. This Workshop will contribute to the knowledge about the relationships between care, the household, the various care networks, AIDS and livelihoods and will identify knowledge gaps. The development of a framework of the relation between AIDS, care and livelihood, current concerns and the context of key issues of patterns of social change at household level. Donor representative explaining current policy and priorities.
Large allocations are more convenient to manage.
This is one reason why they favour multilateral agencies. AIDS in Africa is our subject today and from this viewpoint this hidden policy is regrettable. My explanation is quite straightforward. This may be a wise approach in countries where the epidemic is in its nascent form. However in Africa and especially in Southern Africa, the epidemic is generalised.