UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM'S FORUM ON NUTRITION
Administrative Committee on Coordination SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION
July 2000
SCN NEWS
a periodic developments in international nutrition compiled
from information available to the ACC/SCN
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Administrative Committee on Coordination Sub-Committee on Nutrition (ACC/SCN) THE UN SYSTEM'S FORUM FOR NUTRITION The Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), which is comprised of the heads of the UN Agencies, recommended the establishment of the Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN) in 1977, following the World Food Conference. This was approved by the Economic and Social Council of the UN (ECOSOC). The UN members of the SCN are the ADB, FAO, IAEA, IFAD, IFPRI, ILO, UN, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNRISD, UNU, WFP, WHO and the World Bank. From the outset, representatives of bilateral donor agencies have participated actively in SCN activities. The Secretariat is hosted by WHO in Geneva. The mandate of the ACC/SCN is to serve as the UN
focal point for harmonizing nutrition policies and strategies throughout the UN
system, and to strengthen collaboration with partners for accelerated and more
effective action against malnutrition. The aim of the SCN
is to raise awareness of and concern for nutrition problems at global,
regional and national levels; to refine the direction, increase the scale and
strengthen the coherence and impact of actions against malnutrition worldwide;
and to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations. The
SCN's annual meetings have representation from UN Agencies, donor agencies and
NGOs; these meetings begin with symposia on subjects of current importance for
policy. The SCN brings such matters to the attention of the ACC and convenes
working groups on specialized areas of nutrition. Initiatives are taken to
promote coordinated activities - inter-agency programmes, meetings, publications
- aimed at reducing malnutrition, primarily in developing countries. The SCN
compiles and disseminates information on nutrition, reflecting the shared views
of the agencies concerned. Regular reports on the world nutrition situation are
issued. Nutrition Policy Papers are produced to summarize current knowledge on
selected topics. SCN News is published twice a year, and the RNIS
(Refugee Nutrition Information System report) is published
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SCN NEWS Editor: Judith Pojda, PhD
Cover illustration by Marie Arnaud Snakkers
SCN NEWS is issues twice yearly by the Secretariat of the UN ACC/SCN Sub-Committee on Nutrition. Your contributions to future issues would be most welcome. SCN NEWS aims to help the sharing of experience in nutrition. If you wish to receive additional copies of the SCN NEWS, or would like to suggest other names for our distribution list, please write to us or visit our website at: http://www.acc.unsystem.org/scn/
Chairman: Namanga Ngongi
Deputy Executive Director
World Food Programme
Via Cesare Guilio Viola 68
Parco de Medici, 100148 Rome, Italy
Telephone: 39 06 5613 2001, Fax: 39 06 5613 2834
Email: namanga.ngongi@wfp.org
Technical Secretary: Sonya Rabeneck
ACC/SCN c/o World Health Organization
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Telephone: 41 22 791 0456, Fax: 41 22798 88 91
Email: accscn@who.int
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SCN NEWS provides information on issues of importance in the field of international nutrition. All manuscripts submitted for consideration are peer-reviewed, although publication is not guaranteed. Overall editorial control is retained by the SCN Secretariat. Every effort is made to ascertain the validity of the information contained in SCN publications. Contributing authors are responsible for the accuracy of references. Manuscript guidelines are available. Items published by the SCN Secretariat do not imply endorsement of views given, nor necessarily the official positions taken by the SCN and its member agencies concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The status of quotes and other material is generally indicated in the text and/ or sources. Readers are encouraged to review, abstract, reproduce or translate this document in part or in whole, but as copyright holder, the UN ACC/SCN Secretariat requests due acknowledgement. Use other than for education or non-commercial purposes requires explicit prior authorization in writing from the ACC/SCN Secretariat. Original illustrations are the sole property of ACC/SCN. ©UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition, 1999 |
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We gratefully acknowledge funding assistance from the
Government of the Netherlands and USAID for the preparation and printing of this
issue of SCN NEWS. |
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THIS ISSUE OF THE SCN NEWS IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF DR ABRAHAM HORWITZ (1911 - 2000) |