Letter to Chairman of the Committee from
the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International
Development
Following the oral evidence taken before the
International Development Committee (IDC) on Thursday 23 March
2006 on conflict and development, I said that we would write to
the Committee with follow up information on three points.
For the first of these, Major General Stewart
undertook to provide the IDC with a written answer following his
reply to Q46 during the hearing. The question was: "Has the
Government discussed with the Government of Uganda military assistance
of any kind to help find or capture the LRA commanders?"
A detailed response to this question can be found at Annex A.
Following Q71 of the hearing, Major General
Stewart also said that he would provide a written response to
the question "How long is the Gender training for HMG Armed
forces being sent to conflict areas?" Again, a detailed response
to this question can be found at Annex B.
Finally, following John Bercow's request for
further information to Jim Drummond on Strategic Conflict Assessments
(Q55), please find some further practical examples of how the
Strategic Conflict Assessment has been used to good effect at
Annex C. I also enclose a DFID booklet of guidance notes on conducting
conflict assessments, and a synthesis report of conflict assessments
done in Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Nepal and Sri Lanka.[1]
Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
24 April 2006
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