International Meeting on the Issue of Infant Feeding in Emergency and Relief Situations

Split, Croatia 22-24 October 1998

This three-day international meeting is being facilitated by IBFAN - the International Baby Food Action Network. The major objective of the meeting is to ensure a consistent approach to infant feeding in emergencies globally.
Participants will include: NGOs working in Humanitarian relief, Funding agencies (governments, churches and others), UN agencies, recipient communitites and other interested parties.

The meeting will attempt to:

• raise awareness of key issues among international NGOs, humanitarian relief agencies and donor agencies
• devise strategies to ensure that policies are transformed into action
• form a working group to prepare a framework for future national meetings and for international consultation

Further information is available from:
Margareet Houdijk
Wemos Foundation
PO Box 1693
1000BR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 31 20 420 22 22
Fax: 31 20 620 50 94
e-mail: wemos@tip.nl