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| SCN's Annual SessionsThe SCN undertakes a range of activities to meet its mandate . Annual meetings have representation from concerned UN Agencies, from 15 to 20 bilateral partners, non-governmental agencies, civil society organizations, academia, as well as invitees on specific topics. These meetings include symposia on subjects of current importance for policy. Meetings of some of the SCN Working Groups usually take place during the annual sessions. Details of the Working Groups can be found here. SCN's 35th Annual SessionMore than 350 participants from a wide range of agencies, organizations and
countries met to discuss how to accelerate the reduction of maternal and child
undernutrition at the 35th SCN Session, held 2-7 March 2008 in Hanoi, Vietnam,
hosted by the Vietnamese Government. There was broad agreement that the recent
Lancet Nutrition Series brings an important new body of evidence for the
enormous burden and consequences of maternal and child undernutrition that is
inhibiting global development. The Series also provides important new evidence
for the benefit of a set of specific nutrition interventions, operating at the
immediate and underlying levels that together, in addition to other poverty
reduction efforts, can help to accelerate the reduction of maternal and child
undernutrition and in doing so contribute to achieving the Millennium
Development Goals. Furthermore the Lancet Nutrition Series outlines some of the
institutional and coordinative capacities that are needed at the national and
international levels in order to allow this set of interventions to be taken
scale in the most affected countries. The SCN participants, bringing with them
experience from their respective fields of expertise, discussed how the key
messages and contributions from the Lancet Series would help to move the agenda
forward in their respective thematic and geographic working areas and the role
of the SCN in helping to doing this. The SCN participants have now agreed,
through its various constituencies and the Steering Committee, to a set of
Recommendations from the 35th
SCN Session. A detailed report from the annual session will be available by
mid-May. The Secretariat will continuously post the PowerPoint presentations
from the sessions upon having received approval from the speakers. Background documentation for the 35th SCN Session:
Please sign up for the SCN EMail Update to receive announcements of recent posting to the SCN website. If you have any questions please contact: scn@who.int Individual Working Group Reports are available on the Working Group page. Previous Sessions:34th Session 33rd Session 32nd Session 31st Session 30th Session 29th Session 28th Session 27th Session 26th Session 25th Session |
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