United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition



 

Thirty-First Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition

LaBouisse Hall, UNICEF, 3 UN Plaza, New York, Wednesday 24 March 2004 0945-1115

Co-Chairs: Professor Cutberto Garza, UNU; Professor David Sanders, University of the Western Cape; Dr Hans Schoeneberger, GTZ


Preliminary Agenda

Wednesday 24 March 0945-1000 Introduction
Co-chairs
1000-1020 Improved Capacity Development – a necessity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
African Graduate Student Network—J M Mensah, Nkosinathi V.N. Mbuya and JM Mutuku (Graduate students studying in the US and Kenya)
1020-1030 Brief discussion
1030-1050 Capacity Strengthening in Nutrition in Asia (CASNA): Optimizing the existing opportunities   Professor Khor Geok Lin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia; Dr. Widjaja Lukito, SEAMEO TROPMED, Jakarta, Indonesia
  1050-1100 Brief discussion
  1100-1115 Open discussion
  1115 Closure