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Maternal & Child Nutrition: Special issue on Strategies and
Interventions in Public Health Nutrition
Guest editors: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Meera Shekar and Tahmeed Ahmed.
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New website: The Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (FANS)
has set up its own website:
www.fans-web.org.
New website: The International Health Partnership (www.internationalhealthpartnership.net)
Read more.
World nutrition is under threat
Statement by the Civil Society constituency of the SCN at the 35th SCN
Session (March 2008) -
download here.
Establishing stunting as an additional indicator of endemic poverty
to monitor progress made towards the achievement of MDG 1. Draft
Statement from the SCN Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring & Evaluation
(March 2008) -
download here.
Seeking Nominations for the 2009 Awardee of "The Gene White Lifetime
Achievement Award for Child Nutrition". Deadline: 15 November 2008.
Read more.
New website: European Network on reducing marketing pressure on
children (www.shdir.no/marketing)
The website was established on 14 April 2008 and contains the report of
the first network meeting held in Oslo, Norway in January 2008.
Read more.
New website: CE-DAT Complex Emergency Monitor (www.cedat.be)
Access CE-DAT data through a map portal and a timeline tool including
overview of the nature of mortality in complex emergencies. The
April 2008 CE-DAT Scene newsletter introduces the new website tools.
Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper on Hunger and Malnutrition
The Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper on Hunger and Malnutrition,
by Sue Horton, Harold Alderman and Juan A. Rivera has been published.
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Vacancy in WHO: Director, Health and Nutrition Tracking Service
(HNTS). Deadline for application: 21 May 2008.
Read more.
Vacancy: International Relief and Development (IRD) seeks a
Senior Technical Advisor in Food Technology and Nutrition for the
Sustainable Food and Agriculture Systems (SFAS) unit, one of IRD’s five
technical sectors (Health, Civil Society, Economic Development, SFAS, and
Infrastructure), based at IRD headquarters in Washington DC.
Read more.
New website: Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)
www.ipcinfo.org
The IPC is an innovative tool for improving food security analysis and
decision-making.
Read more.
World Breastfeeding Week - materials for download
Materials for World Breastfeeding Week are now available from
www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/downloads.htm
WBW 2008 Action Folder (English),
WBW 2008 Calendar (English,
Spanish,
French,
Chinese), WBW 2008 Logo (web
format). For groups who will be adapting, translating and reproducing
the WBW materials, please do contact WABA at
waba2008@gmail.com for a copy of
the WBW Reproduction CD.
Module 2 on Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE), updated by the
Infant Feeding in Emergencies Core Group, is available here from
www.ennonline.net/ife in
English and in French
For print copies please contact:
enn.office@gmail.com.
Read more.
FIAN, the international human rights organisation for the right
to food, reported 7 April 2008 on a breakthrough for universal social
justice when UN member states approved the text of a complaints
mechanism to guarantee the rights of the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The new complaints mechanism will
allow victims of human rights violations, such as violations of the
right to health and the right to food, to address the United
Nations if they were not able to obtain relief in their country. Read more
at www.fian.org and
www.opicescr-coalition.org
or contact Sandra Ratjen, FIAN International,
ratjen@fian.org
How to use the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food to monitor
public policies?
This manual which was published by FIAN International and
Welthungerhilfe is one in a series of manuals on the human right to
food . Other publications in this series are titled “How to use the
Voluntary Guidelines on the right to food”, "Documenting violations of the
right to adequate food”, “Access to land and the right to food, “Parallel
Reporting before the UN CESCR”. The purpose of these publications is to
invite civil society organizations to make use of the progress made for
food as a human right in the decade after the World Food Summit 1996 – and
to equip civil society and other actors with some tools to hold
governments accountable.
English version available from
www.fian.org/resources/documents/others/screen-state-action-against-hunger
Spanish version available from:
www.fian.org/recursos/publicaciones/documentos/vigilando-la-accion-estatal-contra-el-hambre
Vacancy: Nutrition Specialist to join the team at the
Nutritional and Health Related Environmental Studies Section at the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
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more.
Urban Nutrition
SCN held a successful networking event on the urban informal economy
during WUF-3 in Vancouver in June 2006. The place was full of participants
bursting at the seams, with a good mix of UN agencies, local government
reps, NGOs, informal sector activists, academic researchers and other
representatives of civil society. See SCN Statement at the Third World
Urban Forum, entitled "The double burden of malnutrition - A challenge
for cities worldwide"
here.
World Urban Forum 4 will be held 3-7 November 2008 Nanjing, China.
Read more at
http://www.globalplannersnetwork.org/pdf/wuf4brochure.pdf
Consumers International (CI) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF)
call for an International Code on Marketing of Food and Non-alcoholic
Beverages to Children.
Read more.
Visit the new webpage of the
SCN Task Force on Assessment,
Monitoring and Evaluation where you can
- read about work areas
- download fact sheets (available for 3 indicators: MUAC, Dietary
Diversity and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS))
- download an annotated Repository of documents related to food security
and nutrition indicators
- download a short statement on stunting as the main indicator for
endemic poverty
A new website for the Food and Nutrition Bulletin (www.foodandnutritionbulletin.org)
was launched 15 March 2008.
Read more.
Take part in the evaluation of the CD-ROM ‘Community Nutrition’ by
TALC (Teaching-aids At Low Cost).
Read more.
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: SCN’S Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics
and Human Rights announces publication of its new edited volume on
Global Obligations for the Right to Food, exploring obligations regarding
the right to food of the global community taken as a whole. A descriptive
flyer is available at
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent/GORFflyer.doc. This new book is
based in part on an earlier book, Freeedom from Want: The Human Right
to Adequate Food, now available as a no-cost PDF file file at
http://press.georgetown.edu/pdfs/9781589010550.pdf
Discussion on Nutrition Education at the Global Food Security
and Nutrition Policies and Strategies (FSN Forum).
Read more.
The Global Nutrition Cluster website is now updated.
Read more.
Médecins Sans Frontières Malnutrition Symposium - Hanoi, 1 March 2008
Taking opportunity to bring together a number key players in the nutrition
community ahead of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition in Hanoi, Vietnam in
March, the MSF held a Symposium entitled “Learning from recent successes and new
approaches to bring down mortality/morbidity in malnourished children under
three years old” with the aim to stimulate debate on how best to address acute
malnutrition in young children.
Summaries of the sessions along with the speaker’s presentations are
now available here.
Former SCN Chair Mr Namanga Ngongi becomes President of the
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) (http://www.agra-alliance.org).
Read more.
FAO D-Group on Acting Locally in Food Security, Nutrition and
Livelihoods - join this virtual group of nutrition professionals.
Read more.
The Lancet’s Nutrition Series - new website for nutrition advocates
The papers are available from
www.thelancet.com/collections/series/undernutrition with more articles
and speeches from the launch at
www.thelancet.com/online/focus/undernutrition. A new website for
nutrition was developed to support the launch of The Lancet’s Nutrition
Series at -
www.globalnutritionseries.org - which contain the advocacy material
from the launch, an Executive Summary of the Series and other material.
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of
the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently announced two
funding opportunities for nutrition and HIV research.
Read more.
The World Bank Scholarship Program and the Fellowships Program:
Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program is currently accepting applications
from PhD candidates under 45 years from World Bank members countries
eligible to borrow, deadline: 31 March 2008.
Read more.
2ième édition du PLAN (PLAN2008), Rabat (Maroc), 23-30 Juin 2008
Le Programme de Leadership Africain en Nutrition (PLAN) sera organisée à
Rabat (Maroc) du 23 au 30 Juin 2008. La date limite d’envoie de demande:
14 mars 2008. Read
more.
New & Noteworthy in Nutrition, Issue 1 (December 2007) is now
available from
www.prb.org/pdf07/nnn01.pdf.
Read more
New WHO Growth Reference data for children and adolescents 5-19 years.
Reference charts and tables available for BMI-for-age (5-19 years),
height-for-age (5-19 years) and weight-for-age (5-10 years).
Read more.
"Mother Support : Going for the Gold" - WABA launches video
contest to tell stories of how breastfeeding mothers can be supported.
Read more here.
Global Food Security and Nutrition Forum (FSN Forum) was
launched 16 October 2007 with an e-discussion on “Promoting food
security and nutrition information for improved decision making and
response”, facilitated by Mark Smulders, Coordinator of the FAO-FIVIMS
Programme. Read
more about how to join the FSN Forum here.
The outcome of the global consultation and the final version of the
'Sydney Principles' to guide national and trans-national action to
substantially reduce commercial promotions that target children (printed
in SCN News 33) are now
available from the IOTF (International Obesity Task Force) website
at
www.iotf.org/sydneyprinciples
The Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative (ECHUI) has a new
website:
http://endingchildhunger.blogspot.com.
Please contact Michael Hutak of WFP at
endingchildhunger@gmail.com
to announce your nutrition or development programme, event or resource.
Statement by the Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies on WHO Growth
Standards
Innocenti Declaration 2005 breastfeeding package. In 2005,
participants at a meeting organized in Florence in 2005 to celebrate the
15th Anniversary of the 1990 Innocenti Declaration approved a new version
of the Innocenti Declaration which included the recommendations of the
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding and reaffirmed the
importance of promoting breastfeeding in the accomplishment of the
Millennium Development Goals. Read more and download documents at the
Innoncenti Reasearch Centre here.
Former Chair of the SCN, Ms Catherine Bertini, has joined The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Agricultural Development Team where
she will work with partners to develop a long-term, global effort to
dramatically improve agricultural productivity and create opportunity for
small farmers, particularly the women who often make up more than 70
percent of the agricultural labor force in Africa and South Asia.
Read more here.
Joint WHO/WFP/UNICEF/SCN Statement on Community-Based Management of
Severe Acute Malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition affects an estimated 20 million children
under the age of five worldwide. At least 15 million (75%) of them can be
treated at home through an innovative approach involving highly fortified,
ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs). The remaining estimated 25% of
severely malnourished children will still need traditional hospital-based
treatment. Read more.
Bioversity International's web section
Up for discussion: Biodiversity and Nutrition
ECOWAS Nutrition Forum,
promoted by the Western African Health Organization (WAHO) and hosted by
the Government of Cape Verde in Sao Vicente, 18 to 22 September, included
a Technical Update on Nutrition and the Diet Related Chronic Diseases.
SCN Endorses the New
WHO Growth Standards for Infants and Young Children.
Display posters can
be ordered from WHO.
ECOSOC/SCN Special Information Meeting:
In preparation for the September 2005 Millennium +5 High Level Plenary of
the UN General Assembly, 2005 Summit, ECOSOC, in consultation with the
SCN, held a special information meeting at the UN, New York on 7 June on
the Critical Role of Nutrition for Reaching the Millennium Development
Goals.
Click here for BACKGROUND BRIEFING NOTE.
Click here for the
Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations. Individual presentations
can be
downloaded here.
Details of
all SCN publications
can be found here.
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