Welcome to the SCN website
SCN is the food and nutrition policy harmonization forum of the United Nations.
The mandate of the SCN is to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation. It will do this by refining the direction, increasing the scale and strengthening the coherence and impact of actions against malnutrition world wide, and raise awareness of nutrition problems and mobilize commitment to solve them at global, regional and national levels. Read more
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The WHO-led Landscape Analysis has a new website
The WHO-led Landscape Analysis on Countries' Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition' has a new website. The new website features the three components of the Landscape Analysis: 1. Development of country typologies for "readiness" 2. In-depth Country Assessments 3. Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLIS)
The new website also contains related information and publications, including an update from the 2010 Landscape Analysis Country Assessments in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Mozambique.
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Call for contributions for the SCN News 39
SCN News is the biannual newsletter of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. It is currently printed and distributed to a readership of 7500 nutrition professionals, programme managers and policy makers - 75% of whom reside in developing countries. Each issue features a selected topic, in addition to regular columns with updates of interest to nutrition development practitioners.
The next edition of the SCN News, number 39, will feature "the private sector as stakeholder in nutrition". This is a very interesting and relevant topic, which needs to be looked at with different lenses and from a variety of perspectives. What do we understand as the private sector? Conflict and conversion of interests: how to manage these? What are the good examples of public-private collaboration in the field of food and nutrition? How do we monitor public-private partnerships (PPP)? Who needs to monitor PPPs? How do we assess a "successful" public-private partnership (PPP)? What are the human rights and ethical considerations which need to be taken into account when working with the private sector? As a key stakeholder, does the private sector have a role to play in governing bodies of development organizations? What does the private sector expect when engaging with the public sector? What is a win-win situation when engaging in a PPP?
We want to constructively contribute to a global discussion on the role and responsibilities of the private sector with regard to food and nutrition by sharing experiences, opinions and in-depth analyses. We invite you to actively contribute to this reflection and to the SCN News 39.
For more information on how you can contribute to the SCN News 39, please click on the link below to download the information pdf file.
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Conference: Berlin International Conference 9-11 June 2010
More than one billion people suffer from hunger. To tackle this problem, global governance for food security and nutrition needs to be improved. Access to land is a crucial factor in this context. These issues were addressed by the international conference "Policies against Hunger VIII", hosted by the Government of Germany from June 9-11 in Berlin.
The UNSCN was very well represented at the meeting: the Chair, Alexander Müller and a number of Steering Committee members and a team member of the Secretariat attended the conference.
Information about the conference can be found at http://www.policies-against-hunger.de
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Conference: First Global Conference on Biofortification
The First Global Conference on Biofortification is the first international effort to take stock of progress made in developing nutrient-rich crops, share lessons learned, and chart the future of biofortification. This three-day event will bring agricultural scientists, public health specialists, policymakers, donors, and business leaders together to move this emerging agricultural intervention for public health forward.
When: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 8:00 AM - Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:00 PM
Where: Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center. 3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC
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Nutrition Policy Briefings from Save the Children UK
With continuing global focus on the best means to work our way out of the global economic slowdown please see Save the Children (UK)'s new policy briefing making the case for the Economic Benefits of Investing in Children's Nutrition.
The global community still has a long way to go to ensure the global effort aiming to tackle undernutrition achieves a scale of response that is commensurate with the problem. Amarty Sen stated that 'tackling undernutrition is the biggest battle in international development and the most urgent area of development in our time' in a high profile lecture at the London School of Economics earlier this year. We must continue to do what we can together to marshal appropriate arguments for different audiences.
The Policy Briefing Hungry for Change provides a concise version of the report outlining a plan of action to tackle hunger and undernutrition.
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Call for leadership and constructive coordination in two interesting publications on hunger and nutrition
"International and regional efforts to reduce hunger need to be continued, and the global food governance system itself needs to be reformed to work better."
"Strengthen global and regional partnerships for a more coordinated international response (architecture) to acute malnutrition. Establish and cultivate coordination between different sectors influencing nutrition, both within organizations at the level of departments or sections, and externally, between government ministries and public and private sectors."
These recommendations come from 2 recently published documents produced by IFPRI and ACF.
To download the documents:
Halving Hunger: Meeting the first millennium development goal through business as unusual
by Shenggen Fan (IFPRI), click here
Taking action Nutrition for survival, growth & development
May 2010 White paper by Action Contre la Faim International, click here
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Conference: Scientific Symposium on Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets
FAO has announced the following upcoming conference:
Scientific Symposium on Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets
3-5 November 2010, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
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Vacancy: UNICEF Nutrition Cluster Coordinator, Niger
UNICEF is looking for a Nutrition Cluster Coordinator in Niger. The Nutrition Cluster Coordinator will facilitate a timely and effective nutrition response in Niger and ensure that the capacity of national and local institutions is strengthened to respond to and coordinate emergency nutrition interventions that demonstrate results and impact achieved.
Interested candidates are requested to write directly to Dr. Eric-Alain Ategbo, Nutrition Manager, UNICEF Niger, at eaategbo@unicef.org.
For further details, please click below.
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Brazilian regulation on marketing foods with high salt, sugar and fat content
Brazilian regulation on marketing foods with high salt, sugar and fat content and beverages with low nutrition content, has been finalized and entered into force.
The objective of this resolution (RDC 24 of 15 July 2010) is to assure that information that helps preserve the health of all those exposed to marketing of foods is available, and to restrain excessive marketing practises that may lead the public, mainly children, to unhealthy dietary practises that violate their human right to food.
The food industry has 180 days to adjust their practices accordingly.
Click below to find out more and download the resolution (in Portuguese).
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Vacancy: Vacancy: Project Manager for PMNCH Partners Forum
The Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health is currently organizing a Partners Forum which will take place in New Delhi from 12 to 14 November. Consequently, the PMNCH needs to hire an experienced Project Manager for 4 months.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday, 3 August.
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SUN : Scaling up Nutrition
