was organized jointly by the French Committee for UNICEF, the International Children's Centre in Paris and UNICER This was the first international conference held to discuss the policy implications and technical issues arising from the Bamako Initiative that could be addressed from previous African experience. A second conference was organized in September in Freetown, Sierra Leone, by UNICEF, Health Action International, Oxiam and the Government of Sierra Leone, and attended mainly by over 60 African PHC specialists, representing both NGOs and Ministries of Health and including representatives from bilateral agencies, WHO and UNICEK Participants were able to visit several districts to learn of the progress of PHC in Sierra Leone under the Bamako Initiative and the role of non-governmental and other organizations in its development. During the year, UNICEK strengthened its collaboration with WHO through the establishment of a management unit in the AFRO regional office in Brazzaville, Congo, and through formal consultations at secretariat and country level. In the past 12 months, growing interest has been generated by the Initiative among countries outside Africa, notably in Nepal and Viet Nam. !Reversing their fortunes The 271,000 people of Masasi District, like villagers elsewhere in the south-eastern corner of Tanzania, were in desperate need of a new approach to food production. And last year came hope that these communities, which over the years have been ravaged by drought and hunger could reverse their fortunes with only modest external support. A project to mobilize community food production in the sparsely populated Mtwara region brought tens of thousands of acres of land under cassava, sorghum and legumes, and many children now have enough food to eat for the first time in three years.The 'Onjama' programme started in 1987 in Masasi. (In Swahili, Onjama means 'eradicate hunger in Masasi'.) The programme was started by the local government with
**Analysis**
The text discusses two separate topics: the Bamako Initiative, which is a health-related conference and collaboration, and a community food production project in Tanzania. While the Bamako Initiative is related to healthcare, the community food production project is more closely tied to agriculture and humanitarian aid. Given the mix of topics, it's challenging to categorize the text into a single category. However, the Bamako Initiative is the primary focus of the text, and it's more closely related to health and humanitarian aid.

**Category**
Health, Humanitarian aid and relief