United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

Thirtieth Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

Symposium: Mainstreaming Nutrition to Improve Development Outcomes

Hosted by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Tuesday, 4 March 2003

The Symposium is chaired by Catherine Bertini, SCN Chair

Agenda

Tuesday 4 March	0900-0910	Welcome and Opening Remarks — Professor M.S. Swaminathan
Tuesday 4 March	0910-0920	Special Remarks — Ms. Catherine Bertini
	0920-0945	Keynote Speaker Overcoming obstacles to moving a nutrition agenda forward in governments in the developing world — Dr. Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, Vice President of Uganda
	0945-1030	Discussion
	1030- 1100	Coffee/Tea
	1100-1145	Paper 1: Engaging development, a framework paper based from the 5th Report—Lawrence Haddad, Member of the SCN 5th Report Task Force Discussion
	1145-1230	Paper 2: Public/private partnerships for improved nutrition: how do we make them work for the public good?—Venkatesh Mannar, Micronutrient Initiative; Respondent: Judith Richter Discussion
	1230-1400	Lunch
	1400- 1600	Panel Discussion on "Sustaining impact on a large scale: what are the lessons?"—David SandersSanders, University of Western Cape, Moderator (panel members to speak for 7-8 minutes each, followed by questions and discussion) Panel member 1 — Prema Ramachandran, Advisor to the Planning Commission, India Panel member 2 — Arabella Duffield, Save the Children, UK Panel member 3 — Nguygen Cong Khan, National Institute of Nutrition, Vietnam Panel member 4 — Mallikharjuna Rao, Andhra Pradesh Foods, India Discussion
	1600-1630	Coffee/Tea
	1630-1730	7th Annual Dr Abraham Horwitz Lecture: "Bringing nutrition into the political and technical mainstream: the role of effective communication.” Purnima Menon, Cornell University Discussion
	1800-2000	Public Forum hosted by the Hindu Media Resource Centre of MSSRF, to be held at the Central Lecture Theatre, IIT