United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty-First Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Nutrition of School-Age Children

LaBouisse Hall, UNICEF, 3 UN Plaza, New York, Thursday 25 March 2004 1145-1300

Co-Chairs: Arlene Mitchell, WFP; Joy Miller Del Rosso, Save the Children/US (SC/US)

Rapporteurs: Celia Maier, Partnership for Child Development (PCD)

 


Preliminary Agenda

Thursday 25 March 1145-1155 Introduction—Nutrition of School-Age Children and the MDGs (Joy Miller Del Rosso – SC/US)
1155-1235 Going to Scale with Nutrition for School-Age Children
  1. Nutrition aspects of school feeding (Lisa Studdert – Asian Development Bank)
  2. Deworming and nutrition (Lorenzo Savioli – WHO)
  3. Simple School Nutrition Interventions: Clever Pills? The Zambian Experience (Celia Maier – PCD)
  4. Success factors in large-scale nutrition programs – a donor’s perspective (Barbara Macdonald – Canadian CIDA)
  1235-1255 Discussion
  1255-1300 Closure