United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty-Fifth Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies

Draft Agenda (12 Feb, 2008)

Chair: Caroline Wilkinson (ACF France)
Co-Chairs: Zita Weise Prinzo (WHO), Caroline Abla (USAID), Anne Callanan (WFP)

Sunday 2 March 2008
This session is very informal and intended to elicit focused discussions on key issues.

Time Topic
0830-0900 Welcome (˝ hour)
Chairs / Co-Chairs
0900-1015 Revisit theme groups and development of plan of action (15 minutes each theme):
  • HIV
  • IFE
  • Maternal nutrition
  • Micronutrients
  • Assessments
  • Community-based management of severe malnutrition.

All focal points

1015-1100 Implications of transition to new WHO child growth standards: SCN commissioned papers
Claudine Prudhon-SCN
1100-1115 Break
1115-1200 Work on impact of supplementary feeding programmes SC UK, ENN
Jeremy Shoham & Carlos Navarro
1200-1300 Lunch Break
1300-1415 Management of malnourished infants under 6 months of age. ACF, ENN, IMTF
Cécile Bizouerne, Caroline Wilkinson, Jeremy Shoham, Alan Jackson
1415-1435 LQAS presentation: evidence from field
Hedwig Deconinck-FANTA
1435-1455 SMART presentation: evidence from field
Melody Tondeur-ACF
1455-1515 Capacity Development from Nutrition Cluster Work
Flora Sibanda-Mulder-UNICEF
1515-1530 Closing (summary of day)
Chairs / Co-Chairs

 

Tuesday 4 March 2008

Time Topic
1330-1415 Summary of Sunday meeting including de-briefing of theme groups and work plan
Chair and co-chairs
1415-1445 Nutrition Cluster Update
Cluster Co-coordinator Bruce Cogill
1445-1500 Closing, questions and comments