United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty-Fourth Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition

Final Agenda as of 22 February 2007

Chair: Patrick Stover, UNU
Co-Chairs: David Sanders (Univ. of the Western Cape, South Africa), Emorn Wasantwisut (Mahidol University, Thailand)
 

Sunday 25 February 2007
This session is very informal and intended to elicit focused discussions on key issues.
Time Topic
1400-1630 Closed meeting by invitation only
   
Wednesday 28 February 2007
Time Topic
1600-1800 Regional Approaches to Capacity Development in Food and Nutrition: Focus on Successes and Challenges

i. Task Force on Child Malnutrition (5 min)
David Sanders

ii. Food Security Information for Action (5 min)
Cristina Petracchi

iii. Central Europe

• Central Europe Activities and Future Plans (5 min)
Mirjana Pavlovic

iii. Africa

• MENANA activities and future plans (5 min)
Osman Galal
• Southern Africa Nutrition Capacity Development Initiative activities and future plans (5 min)
Joyce Chanetsa
• Nairobi activities and future plans (5 min)
Alice Mwangi

iv. New Organizational Structure of the United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme (UNU-FNP)

• Introduction to UNU-FNP (5-10 min)
Patrick Stover
• Networks: Best practices and regional strategies (5 min)
Emorn Wasantwisut
• Training Fellowships: Best practices and regional strategies (5 min)
Shibani Ghosh
• Leadership Training: Best practices and regional strategies (5 min)
Fre Pepping
• Using Internet Resources (5 min)
Joseph Mensah-Homiah

Discussion on proceeding under the new organizational structure of the UNU-FNP