Maggie Currey, Editor of Spotlight, has been to see Hilary Benn. Liked him a lot. Her interview was in the recent Spotlight. Hilary Benn's views on Zambia are pretty close to mine.

The Newsletter view is that Zambia needs:

• Good government
• Effective family planning
• Effective AIDS control
• and lots and lots of well-managed cash.

Hilary Benn seems to believe the same. In the interview it comes out as:

• A key area of DFID's support of Zambia is good governance
• decline in outcome has been halted or reversed....(in) contraceptive use
• Zambia is starting to make progress.....in combating HIV/AIDS
• Above all, Zambia needs...investment from outside

Gerry