United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty-Third Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on School-Age Children

Sunday 12 March 2006, 1000-1600 hours, World Council of Churches/Ecumenical Centre and
Thursday 16 March 2006, 0830-1030 hours, Geneva International Conference Centre, Room 3

Chair: Francisco Espejo (WFP)
Co-Chairs: Karin Lapping (Save the Children US), Lesley Drake (Partnership for Child Development)

Documentation and Presentations:


Objectives

  • To discuss the Working Group Work Plan
  • To discuss key issues regarding nutrition in school age children in a participatory way
  • To strengthen the Working Group identifying opportunities for collaboration and resources

 

Thursday 16 March 2006, 0830-1030 hours, Geneva International Conference Centre, Room 3 - Work plan presentation - Update in the Florence meeting on school policies for the prevention of child obesity (WHO-Euro) - Update on the school health programmes donor survey (Partnership for Child Development) - Discussion

Sunday 12 March 2006
World Council of Churches/Ecumenical Centre
Time Topic
1000-1200
  • Introduction of the workshop objectives introductions of the participants
  • Discussion of the plan of action for 2006 - 2007
  • Questionnaire application to identify resources, best practices, lessons learnt, strategic opportunities for the working group, most used guidelines / websites, etc. (Dear participants: please think the replies in advance!)
1300-1600 Discussion of the following "hot topics" regarding nutrition of the school age children (SAC)
  • Micronutrients for SAC: which ones, doses, administration, etc
  • Nutrition outcomes for school feeding programme and micro nutrient supplementation, which ones and how to measure these?
  • Complementary activities: deworming, nutrition education, health education, outcomes, synergism, ways to follow up, etc
  • Anthropometry/reference curves for SAC specially during adolescence
  • Others

Each topic will be discussed by a panel of 3 to 4 participants and then by the whole group. The main questions that will guide the discussion are:

  • What we know, What we don't know ?
  • What we know about the best ways to make it work and to make it work at scale?
  • What are the needs to address the above?
Thursday 16 March 2006
Geneva International Conference Centre, Room 3
0830-1030
  • Work plan presentation
  • Update in the Florence meeting on school policies for the prevention of child obesity (WHO-Euro)
  • Update on the school health programmes donor survey (Partnership for Child Development) - Discussion