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United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION (ACC/SCN) - The UN System's Forum for Nutrition- The Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), which is comprised of the heads of the UN Agencies, recommended the establishment of the Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN) in 1997, following the world food Conference (with particular reference to Resolution V on food and nutrition). This was approved by the Economic and Social Council of the UN (ECOSOC). The UN members of the SCN are FAO, IAEA, IFAD, ILO, UN, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNRISD, UNU, WFP, WHO and the World Bank. IFPRI and the ADB are also member. From the outset representatives of bilateral donor agencies have participated actively in SCN activities as do non governmental organizations. The Secretariat is hosted by WHO in Geneva. The mandate of the ACC/SCN is to serve as the UN
focal point for promoting harmonized nutrition policies and strategies
throughout the UN systems, and to strengthen collaboration with other partners
for accelerated and more effective action against malnutrition. The aim of
the SCN is to raise awareness of and concern for nutrition problems at
global, regional and national levels; to refine the direction, increase the
scale and strengthen the coherence and impact of actions against malnutrition
worldwide; and to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner
organizations. The SCN's annual meetings have representation from UN Agencies,
donor agencies and NGO's; these meetings begin with symposia on subjects of
current importance for policy. The SCN brings such matters to the attention of
the ACC and convenes working groups on specialized areas of nutrition.
Initiatives are taken to promote coordinated activities - interagency
programmes, meetings, publications - aimed at reducing malnutrition, reflecting
the shared views of the agencies concerned. Regular reports on the world
nutrition situation are issued. Nutrition Policy Papers are produced to
summarize current knowledge on selected topics. SCN News is published twice a
year, and the RNIS is published quarterly. As decided by the
Sub-Committee, initiatives are taken to promote coordinated activities -
inter-agency programmes, meetings, publications - aimed at reducing
malnutrition, primarily in developing countries. |
SCN NEWS Editor: Elizabeth Johnston, PhD and Sonya Rabeneck, PhD
Cover by Marie Arnaud Snakkers, other illustrations by Lindsay Barrett-Gillespie
SCN NEWS is issued in July and December each year by the Secretariat of the UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition. Your contributions to future issues are most welcome. SCN NEWS aims to help the sharing of experience in nutrition. If you wish to receive additional copies of SCN NEWS, or would like to suggest other names to be added to our distribution list, please write to us or visit our website at: http://acc.unsystem.org/scn/
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Chairman: A. Namanga Ngongi |
Technical Secretary: Sonya Rabeneck |
Readers are encouraged to review, abstract, reproduce or translate this document in part or in whole - but please attribute to the ACC/SCN
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We gratefully acknowledge funding assistance from UNEP, the
Government of the Netherlands and USAID for the preparation and printing of this
issue of SCN NEWS |
