CEDAW/C/1996/3/Add.4 English Page 6 19. Also, as part of the current FAO/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) arrangements for technical support services, cooperation with UNFPA country support teams included an independent evaluation mission to Mozambique for an International Labour Organization (ILO)/UNFPA project entitled "Strengthening of the organization of Mozambican women". The Division on Women and People’s Participation in Development also liaised with UNFPA country support teams for East Africa and with UNFPA country support teams for Arab States. On both occasions, recent FAO and UNFPA achievements in the area of women, population and development were shared and grounds were set for future cooperation. The Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Reform Division and the Division on Women and People’s Participation in Development continued to take part in the technical backstopping of a UNFPA project in China on mother and child health care and family planning. 20. Technical assistance was provided to the FAO Regional Office for the Near East, Cairo, in conceptualizing a policy-issues paper on women, population and environment in the Near East, to be developed in 1995. As part of the Division on Women and People’s Participation in Development’s efforts to promote cooperation with non-governmental organizations, a seminar on FAO concepts and methodologies in identifying policy issues in the area of women, population and environment was offered at the Nucleo de Estudos da Mulher e Relaçoes Sociais de Genero of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 3. Food security and nutrition 21. FAO works to support women’s contributions to food security and nutrition and to enhance women’s roles as primary nutrition managers at the household level, as income providers and as food producers, and to increase their access to all the necessary resources. FAO also gives special attention to women’s own nutritional needs, which are especially at risk for single mothers and all pregnant or lactating women. Food security 22. The Food Security Assistance Scheme of FAO’s Commodities and Trade Division takes gender issues into account in its initial assessment and identification of the root causes of, and possible solutions to, food insecurity at household, community and national levels. During 1994-1995, FAO provided such analyses to six countries in Africa, two in Asia and 12 in Latin America. Similar genderresponsive assistance is given at regional level to the Customs Union of Central African States, the Economic Community of West African States and the Economic Community for Central African States, the Latin American Integration Association, and the Preferential Trade Area of Eastern and Southern African States. In implementing all these efforts, the Division has also emphasized hiring women to work as consultants and national counterparts. Nutrition 23. During 1994-1995, as a follow-up to the 1992 International Conference on Nutrition, FAO’s Food Policy and Nutrition Division provided technical assistance to a number of countries for assessing national food security and /...