UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan noted in a 23 December report to the UN Security Council that Guinea-Bissau was currently in a transitional phase from humanitarian relief to reconstruction and rehabilitation.
UN organisations, in particular the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP), are providing assistance to vulnerable groups, with FAO concentrating on the horticulture and agriculture sector and WFP responding to the needs of hospitals, nutritional centres and school canteens.
Food-for-work programmes are being used to rehabilitate health centres, construct roads and build salt-water dykes, he reported.
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