in phasing out emergency aid and replacing it by food-for-work projects to facilitate the integration of refugees and displaced persons.
241. UNICEF made available assistance in kind to refugees during emergency situations in a number of countries, while its concern for the educational needs of refugee children engendered more long-term benefits.
242. Pursuant to the decision of the General Assembly in resolution 31/169 to proclaim 1979 as the International Year of the Child, UNHCR is co-operating closely with the IYC secretariats in New York and Geneva. In view of the particularly vulnerable position of refugee children, special efforts are planned to improve their situation, notably in the fields of education, housing, medical and social care. Towards achieving this goal, an appeal for funds will be made to the national IYC commissions which have been or are in the process of being established in most countries.
243. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have co-operated in planning arrangements for vocational training courses for refugees.
244. Close contact has been maintained with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with a view to promoting the teaching of refugee law, with particular reference to the Conference on the University Teaching of Human Rights, to be held in Vienna in September 1978. UNHCR has benefited from the advice of experts seconded by UNESCO.
245. The World Health Organization (WHO) has assisted refugees and displaced persons in a variety of ways. Groups of concern to UNHCR automatically benefit from WHO programmes for national health in countries where such programmes exist; for example, refugees were included in WHO vaccination projects. In addition, WHO has contributed towards UNHCR's assistance programmes through the assessment of costs and the procurement of medication and medical equipment.
246. Exports made available by UNICEF, WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have participated in missions to countries in Africa to determine the viability of potential sites for rural settlements for refugees. Sectors such as optimum land usage, development of water systems and rudimentary sanitary control are investigated by interagency missions before a decision is taken to establish a new settlement.
247. UNHCR is co-operating with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) with a view to the inclusion of an article in the revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property which would extend the benefits of the Convention to refugees and stateless persons.
248. Regular consultations are held with the United Nations Education and Training Programme for Southern Africa (UNETPSA), the United Nations Council for Namibia and the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa to ensure that qualified southern African refugee students are awarded scholarships, to the extent possible.
249. UNHCR continued to maintain contacts with the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator (UNDRO) on matters of mutual concern.
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