United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty Second Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

DRAFT Agenda (4 February 2005)


UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM

Standing Committee on Nutrition

32nd Session 14-18 March 2005, Brasilia Hosted by the Government of Brazil

 

Sunday
13 March		  

 
1500-1800 Registration
Monday
14 March		   Symposium on Realizing the Right to Adequate Food to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals
0800-0900 Registration
0900-1100
  • Opening Session—SCN Chair Catherine Bertini, Representative of the Brazilian Government, Representative of Civil Society/NGOs
1100-1130 Break
1130-1300
  • Country Case Studies on how to strengthen national food and nutrition plans to achieve the MDGs in the context of realizing the right to adequate food—SCN, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil and Mozambique
  1300-1430 Lunch Break
  1430-1520
  • The Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food: an important tool for realizing the MDGs—Aliro Omara, Uganda Human Rights Commission
  1520-1610
  • MDGs and the new child growth reference—Cutberto Garza, Vice Provost, Cornell University and Director, Food and Nutrition Programme, UNU
  1610-1630 Break
  1630-1730
  • Dr Abraham Horwitz Lecture—Kaia Engesveen, University of Oslo
  1730-1800
  • Closing Session—SCN Chair, Catherine Bertini
  • Concluding remarks
  • Explanation of the SCN Working Sessions programme for the rest of the week
Tuesday
15 March		   Working Sessions (Separate, parallel sessions)
0830-0930 Separate, parallel sessions:
  • Brazilian National Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF)
    Capacity Building Workshop (0930-1800)
  • UN SCN (Agencies, Bilaterals, NGOs/CSOs)—SCN Chair, Catherine Bertini
    Presentation of SCN draft work plan proposal for 2005-2010
  0930-1100
  • UN Agencies (Chair: Catherine Bertini)
  • Bilateral Partners (Chair: Arne Oshaug)
  • NGOs/CSOs (Chair: Flavio Valente)
1100-1130 Break
  1130-1300
  • SCN Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights (Chair: Urban Jonsson)
  1300-1430 Lunch Break
  1430-1600
  • SCN Working Group on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding (Co-Chairs: Miriam Labbok, Randa Saadeh, Reina Buijs)
  1600-1630  Break
  1630-1800
  • SCN Working Group on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS (Chair: Andrew Tomkins)
Wed
16 March		   Working Sessions
  0830-0930
  • Plenary: State-of-the-art lecture: Anaemia and iron deficiency—Sean Lynch, Eastern Virginia Medical School
  0930-1100 Separate, parallel sessions:
  • Brazilian National HRAF Capacity Building Workshop (0930-1800)
  • SCN Working Group on Capacity Building (Co-Chairs: Cutberto Garza, David Sanders, Hans Schoeneberger)  
  1100-1130 Break
  1130-1300
  • SCN Working Group on Nutrition of School Age Children (Co-Chairs: Joy del Rosso, Arlene Mitchell)
  1300-1430 Lunch Break
  1430-1600
  • SCN Working Group on Household Food Security (Co-Chairs: Florence Egal, Shakuntala Thilsted)
1600-1630 Break
  1630-1800
  • SCN Working Group on Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle (Co-Chairs: Ricardo Uauy, Ted Greiner)
Thursday
17 March		   Working Sessions (Separate, parallel sessions)
  0830-1000 Separate, parallel sessions:
  •  SCN Working Group Nutrition in Emergencies (Co-Chairs: Fathia Abdallah, Caroline Wilkinson)
  • Brazilian National HRAF Capacity Building Workshop (0930-1530)
  1000-1300 Separate, parallel sessions:
  • UN Agencies
  • Bilateral Partners
  • NGOs/CSOs
  1300-1430 Lunch break
  1430-1530 Separate, parallel sessions:
  • Poster Session/Networking time for all participants
  • Meeting of SCN Chair and Secretary with Steering Committee and Working Group Chairs
  1530-1600 Break
  1600-1800 Plenary:
  • State-of-the-art lecture: Addressing the challenge of the double burden of disease in developing countries—Ricardo Uauy (Chair), Juan Rivera, Carlos Monteiro, Fernando Vio, Denise Coitinho
1900 Dinner
Friday
18 March		   Plenary: Closing Sessions
0830-1030 Reports from (20 minutes per group):
  • UN Agencies
  • Bilateral Partners
  • NGOs/CSO
  • Discussion (60 minutes)
  1030-1100 Break
  1100-1300
  • Brazilian National HRAF Capacity Building Workshop Conclusions and Recommendations
  • Discussion
  • Presentation of Annual Work Plan of SCN Working Groups and SCN Secretariat
  • Discussion
  • Close of 32nd Session
  1300-1430 Lunch