As Overseas Director for ACORD for almost 20 years, Peter James was responsible for innovative programme planning  and pilot programming throughout Africa. Concepts fostered under his leadership, ten years before they became mainstream, included:

• Gender awareness in both programme planning and staff recruitment;
• Process planning approaches;
• Decentralisation of management systems.

Currently, AA International Ltd is particularly interested in linking relief and rehabilitation programmes with fundamental concepts of literacy and numeracy.

October 18th, Ian Robinson returned from South Sudan, where he led an agricultural team, conducting a Crop and Food Supply Assessment for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

August 3rd: AA International Ltd Director, Ian Robinson, returned from Central Asia where he  conducted a review of regional markets and food production in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, again for the UN World Food Programme.