United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition



 

UNITED NATIONS Administrative Committee on Coordination
SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION

THE UN SYSTEM'S FORUM FOR NUTRITION
http://acc.unsystem.org/scn/

 

Twenty-Ninth Session of the ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition

Provisional Agenda (1 March 2002) 

Hosted by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Government of Germany, in collaboration with The German Foundation for International Development (DSE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) 

11-15 March 2002, Berlin, Germany
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Monday
11 March

0900-0930

Welcome and opening of working sessions – Namanga Ngongi, SCN Chair

  • Explanation of meeting objectives, agenda and announcements

Welcome —Mr Erich Stather, State Secretary, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

BANKETTSAAL
 

0930-1030

Joint working session of UN Agencies, Bilaterals and NGOs

  • Launch of new ACC/SCN set of briefs - Nutrition: A foundation for development
  • Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation
 

1030-1100

Coffee

 
 

1100-1230

Separate, parallel working sessions:

  • UN Agencies (Chaired by Namanga Ngongi, SCN Chair)
  • Bilaterals (Chaired by Arne Oshaug, Norway)
  • NGOs/Civil Society (Chaired by Flavio Valente, Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security)
 

SASHSEN

BERLIN

BANKETTSAAL

 

1230-1400

Lunch

 
 

1400-1530

Separate, parallel working sessions (continued)

 

1530-1600

Coffee

 
 

1600-1800

Separate, parallel working sessions (continued)

1800-1830 Task Force of the Working Group on Household Food Security SASHSEN

Tuesday
12 March

0850

Participants are seated

BANKETTSAAL
  0900-0915

0915-0945

Official Opening of the Symposium - Namanga Ngongi, SCN Chairman and

Opening Address - Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

 

0945-1030

Symposium on Nutrition in the Context of Crisis and Conflict (continued)
 

 

1030-1100

Coffee

 
 

1100-1230

Symposium on Nutrition in the Context of Crisis and Conflict (continued)

 

1230-1330

Lunch

 
 

1330-1600

Symposium on Nutrition in the Context of Crisis and Conflict (continued)

 

1600-1630

Coffee

 
 

1630-1730

Dr Abraham Horwitz Memorial Lecture

 

1800-1930

Cocktail reception for all participants hosted by Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Government of Germany, in collaboration with the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

WINTER GARDEN
  2000-2200  Poster Session BANKETTSAAL

Wednesday 13 March

0800-1000

Symposium on Nutrition in the Context of Crisis and Conflict (continued)

  • Synthesis and next steps
BANKETTSAAL
 

1000-1030

Coffee

 
 

1030-1230

Working Group on Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition (Chaired by Cutberto Garza, UNU, Barbara Underwood, IUNS)

BANKETTSAAL
 

1230-1330

Lunch

 
 

1330-1430

Working Group on Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition (continued)

 

1500-1600

Working Group on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding (Chaired by Miriam Labbok, UNICEF, Randa Saadeh, WHO)

BANKETTSAAL

1600-1630

Coffee

 
1630-1830 Working Group on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding (continued)
 

2000-

SCN Annual Dinner

RATSKELLER, KOPENICK
     

Thursday 
14 March

0800-1100

Working Group on Micronutrients (Chaired by Ian Darnton-Hill, WHO, Bruno de Benoist, WHO, and Werner Schultink, UNICEF)

BANKETTSAAL
 

1100-1130

Coffee

 
 

1130-1330

Working Group on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS (Chaired by Badara Samb, WHO)

BANKETTSAAL
 

1330-1430

Lunch

 
 

1430-1530

Working Group on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS (continued)

 

1530-1600

Coffee

 
 

1600-1830

Separate, parallel working sessions:
  • UN Agencies
  • Bilaterals
  • NGOs/Civil Society

SACHSEN
BERLIN
BANKETTSAAL
1830 Task Force of the Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies BERLIN
     

Friday
15 March

0800-1000

Plenary:
  • Report from Working Group on Household Food Security
  • Report from Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights
  • Report from Working Group on Nutrition of School-Age Children
  • Recommendations for action arising from the Working Groups that met in Berlin
BANKETTSAAL
 

1000-1030

Coffee

 
 

1030-1230

Plenary:

  • Reports from Chairs of Bilaterals, NGOs/Civil Society and UN Agencies
 

1230-1400

Lunch

 
 

1400-1500

Plenary:
  • SCN 30th Session date and venue
  • any other business
 

1500

Close of Session

Useful Emails:

SCN Chair: Namanga Ngongi, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to the Democratic Republic of Congo: ngongi@un.org

SCN Technical Secretary: Sonya Rabeneck – scn@who.int

Bilateral Chair: Arne Oshaug, Norway – Arne.Oshaug@hiak.no

NGO Chair: Flavio Valente, Global Forum on Sustainable Food and Nutritional Security: flvalente@tecnolink.com.br

Working Group Chairs:

Capacity Development - Cutberto Garza, UNU: cg30@cornell.edu / Barbara Underwood, IUNS: bunderwo@nas.edu

Breastfeeding - Miriam Labbok, UNICEF: Mlabbok@unicef.org / Randa Saadeh, WHO: Saadehr@who.int

Micronutrients - Ian Darnton-Hill, WHO: darnton-hilli@who.int / Bruno de Benoist, WHO: debenoistb@who.int / Werner Schultink, UNICEF: wschultink@unicef.org

HIV/AIDS - Badara Samb, UNAIDS: sambb@who.int

Household Food Security - Kraisid Tontisirin, FAO: kraisid.tontisirin@fao.org

Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights - Urban Jonsson, UNICEF: ujonsson@unicef.org

School-Age Children - Don Bundy, World Bank: dbundy@worldbank.org

Nutrition in Emergencies - Anna Taylor, SCFUK: a.taylor@scfuk.org.uk / Sultana Khanum, WHO: khanums@who.int