The Cyclone Nargis response in Myanmar:- Negotiating humanitarian access to cyclone-affected areas of Myanmar: a review (Julie Belanger mand Richard Horsey)... ASEAN?s role in the Cyclone Nargis response: implications, lessons and opportunities Yves-Kim Creac?h and Lilianne Fan)... The Village Tract Assessment in Myanmar, July 2008: lessons and implications (Richard Blewitt, Yves-Kim Creac?h, Adelina Kamal, Puji Pujiono and Yohannah Wegerdt)... Nargis and beyond: a choice between sensationalism and politicised inaction? (Phillip Humphris, MSF Switzerland)... Responding to Cyclone Nargis: key lessons from Merlin?s experience (Fiona Campbell, Muhammad Shafique and Paula Sansom, Merlin)... HAP and Sphere focal points in Myanmar: early lessons (Erik Johnson, DanChurchAid)... Support to local initiatives in the Nargis response: a fringe versus mainstream approach (Kerren Hedlund and Daw Myint Su)... Helping the heroes: practical lessons from an attempt to support a civil society emergency response after Nargis (ATP staff)... HIV programming in Myanmar (Population Services International Myanmar, Save the Children and the UN Joint Team on AIDS in Myanmar)... Protracted crisis in eastern Burma (Thailand Burma Border Consortium)... Anti-personnel landmines in Myanmar: a cause of displacement and an obstacle to return (Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, International Campaign to Ban Landmines)...... Practice and policy notes: 35 Targeting humanitarian assistance in DRC 39 Does humanitarian space exist in Chad? 41 Aravanis: voiceless victims of the tsunami 43 Including chronic disease care in emergency responses 46 MSF and accountability: from global buzzwords to specific solutions 49 In praise of dependency