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Just published: Nutrition Information in Crisis
Situations (NICS) Vol 18, March 2009
SCN News 37: Landscape Analysis on Countries'
Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition, early 2009
WHO consultation on the Dietary Management of Moderate Malnutrition.
Read more here.
Training: Public Health in Complex Emergencies Training Program (PHCE).
Read more here.
Vacancies: Community nutrition and clinical nutrition at American University of Beirut,
Lebanon, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences - Deadline for application 31 June 2009.
Read more here.
Nutrient Quality of Food Aid – A Scientific Review. USAID Food for Peace program has awarded
a grant to Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy to examine the
nutritional needs of beneficiary populations across the developing world, and the nutritional
quality of commodities currently available to meet those needs.
Read more here.
FIAN Annual Report 2008.
Read more here.
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2009 Virtual Breastfeeding Shield Event
Read more here.
Two columns on nutrition in New York Times.
Read more here.
Report of the 11th ECOWAS Nutrition Forum available in English and in French.
Read more here.
Nutrition Leadership - Young Scientist Award 2009. Deadline for nominations 31 July 2009.
Read more here.
Training: SEAMEO-TROPMED Regional Center for Community Nutrition, Jakarta, Indonesia:
"Nutrition, Aging & Chronic Diseases" and "Nutrition and Infection".
Read more here.
Global recession increases malnutrition for the most vulnerable people in developing countries.
Pregnant women and children are hardest hit. The SCN has developed a briefing note on the nutrition
impacts of the global financial and food crises.
Download the 4-pager note here.
Vacancy: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Nutrition Scientist (P-3)
Application Deadline: 30 June 2009. Read more here.
The Food Crisis: Save the Children Research.
Read more here.
Call for papers: Development in Practice
(www.developmentinpractice.org) Special
issue on global food price shocks and poor people: themes and case studies. Deadlines:
Article outlines or abstracts: 1 June 2009, Invited manuscripts: 1 October 2009,
Revised manuscripts: 1 March 2010. This double issue is scheduled for June 2011 and should also
be published in our Development in Practice Books series.
Read more here.
Newsletter: IYCN Update, a periodic newsletter from USAID’s Infant & Young
Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project. Each issue offers updates on the latest research,
new resources, and project news.
Sign up here.
Vacancies: Join the WHO Roster of qualified and experienced nutritionists with public health background.
The roster is open to candidates with nutrition qualifications and at least five years experience in international
public health nutrition. Candidates will be contacted directly by the interested Regional and Country Offices.
Read more here.
Vacancy: WHO Regional Office for Europe Senior Scientific Officer.
Deadline for the applications: 30 April 2009.
Read more here.
Vacancy: Senior Nutrition Adviser, DFID. Deadline: 8 May 2009.
Read more here.
Vacancy: UNICEF Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Nutrition Specialist (Early Warning and
Nutrition Information Systems), L-4.
Deadline for application: 8 May 2009.
Read more here.
2 Vacancies: A2Z Micronutrient and Child Blindness Project: Technical Director and
Senior Operations Manager.
Read more here.
SCN meetings in 2009
The SCN Secretariat has received many inquiries about the dates of the SCN meetings in 2009.
As some of you may know, there will not be a full-fledged SCN Session in 2009. However, the SCN
is planning to hold two lighter meetings in 2009 as well as a full-fledged SCN Session in 2010.
In 2009, the SCN is planning to hold a meeting in September 2009 in Brussels with a limited number
of participants in Brussels, hosted by the European Commission. The SCN is also planning to hold a
one day meeting in Bangkok on Saturday 10 October back-to-back with the ICN, where also some of the
SCN Working Groups will meet.
The Secretariat will keep you informed about the agenda and opportunities for registration to
these two meetings. We also encourage you to consult the list of other nutrition conferences listed
on the SCN website.
Training: Nutrition in Emergencies: 7-11 September 2009, London, UK.
Read more here.
A new Fact Sheet from the SCN Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation
on the WHO Growth Standards is now available
here.
New website: United Nations as Special Rapporteur on the right to food
(www.srfood.org).
Read more.
New website: SMART Methodology
(www.smartmethodology.org).
New online search facility for Field Exchange of the
Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN).
Read more.
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project II (FANTA-2)
has released article on Cluster Designs to Assess the Prevalence of Acute Malnutrition
by Lot Quality Assurance Sampling: A Validation Study by Computer Simulation.
Read more.
IFPRI’s Food Consumption and Nutrition Division has a new name: "Poverty, Health, and
Nutrition Division". For more information please visit
http://www.ifpri.org/divs/fcnd.htm.
AED receives Gates Foundation grant to improve nutrition and reduce deaths
among young children in developing countries.
Read more.
IZiNCG Technical Document #2: Systematic reviews of zinc intervention strategies.
Read more here.
Training: Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy Course
8-26 June 2009, UCL Institute of Child Health, London.
Read more here.
New website: HarvestPlus has launched a redesigned website
www.harvestplus.org.
High Level Seminar on Nutrition, London, 11 February 2009
On 11 February 2009, Save the Children convened a seminar in London to discuss the food crisis,
in particular soaring food prices, and the international nutrition architecture. The attendees discussed
how the response to rising food prices can lead to faster reductions in malnutrition and agreed that
the time is right to bring together the discussion on the nutrition architecture which has been evolving
for some time and the demand created by the food price crisis for a more coherent and powerful nutrition
agenda. It was noted that the SCN Chair is committed to raising the political profile of nutrition.
In a brief
on the SCN distributed and read out at the meeting, it was emphasized that the SCN provides a
unique mechanism for effectively linking agriculture and health for good nutrition and for the UN agencies
and its partners to work together to reinstall nutrition at the top of the international agenda.
International Course in Nutritional Epidemiology, Imperial College London, 7-18 September 2009.
For more information please visit
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/teaching/shortcourses/sc_epidem/nutritionalepidemiology/
Petition: One Million Campaign - No more Milk Scandals! Support Women to Breastfeed.
Signing the campaign petition gives you the chance to make your voice heard to support women
to breastfeed - to make a difference. Read more here.
Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU): "Report on key findings of the Post Deyr ’08/09 Assessment
and Analysis" just issued! Read more here.
New FAO publication: Guidelines for Estimating the Month and Year of Birth of Young Children.
Read more here.
Call for Papers: 10th CAPGAN Conference on Diarrhoea and Malnutrition.
12-16 August 2009, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.
Read more.
Contribute to getting nutrition as a priority area for evaluation on their agenda!
3IE survey on evaluation priorities is an important global funding mechanism for impact evaluations.
Does not take more than a couple of minutes to do!
http://www.3ieimpact.org/page.php?pg=medium
Joint letter from Directors-General of FAO and WHO and the Executive Directors of UNICEF and WFP
on REACH: ending child hunger and undernutrition to respective country offices.
Read more.
The Nutrition Society Interim Professional Body for Nutrition has updated its Information Sheets 1 - 4.
These are particularly for nutritionists in low-income countries.
Sheet 1 lists low-cost print/hard copy newsletters and journals,
Sheet 2 sources of low cost print materials,
Sheet 3 sources of CD-ROMs, and
Sheet 4 email/website access to discussion forums, news and publications.
To access these go to www.nutritionsociety.org > Nutrition Profession >
Developing practice, or click on www.nutritionsociety.org/index.php?q=node/42.
Please send additions and corrections for these Sheets to
professional@nutsoc.org.uk
or annpatriciaburgess@yahoo.co.uk.
New website: USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project.
Read more here
or visit www.iycn.org.
Vacancy: World Bank is conducting a batch-recruitment for six new nutrition positions.
Read more.
Regional Training Course: the First West and Central African Graduate Course in Food Composition and Biodiversity.
13-24 April 2009 (in French) Université de Abomey Calavi, Benin and
20-31 July 2009 (in English) at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Read more.
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) has just launched an e-discussion on
“Putting people first: Nutrition, a key to integrated programming for poverty reduction”.
Read more.
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has been approved
by the General Assembly
Formal adoption by the GA will take place on 10 December (International Human
Rights Day) during the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Next
step will be ratification by States (10 ratification required for the Optional Protocol to enter into force).
Read the full press release
(incl. concerns expressed by Member States).
Contact magazine 186 - Food Price Crisis: What does it mean? What can we do about it?
A special collaboration between the SCN and WCC with Lida Lhotska as Guest Editor.
Read more.
9th International Graduate Course on Production and Use of Food
Composition Data in Nutrition (FoodComp 2009)
11-24 October 2009, Hof van Wageningen (former Wageningen International
Conference Centre – WICC), Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Read more.
The report from an ENN and FANTA International Workshop on the
Integration of Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition is now
available.
Read more.
EpiInfo/ENA software developed by the International Emergency
and Refugee Health Branch (IERHB), CDC in collaboration with the SMART
initiative is now available for download.
Read more.
Impact of High Food Prices on Nutrition
The SCN held a Side Event at the 34th Session of the Committee on World
Food Security (CFS) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations in Rome, 14 to 17 October 2008.
Read more.
Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - new international periodical review
by Bread for the World, ICCO and FIAN International that monitors state
actors’ actions related to the realization of the right to food.
Read more.
FSN Forum Newsletter October 2008. Read more about this special
issue to celebrate the first anniversary of the FSN Forum
here.
Updates from the Uganda Action for Nutrition on progress and
changes in the preparations for the 1st Uganda Nutrition Congress
“Challenges, Successes and Opportunities to Improve Nutrition” 19-20
February 2009, Kampala, Uganda.
Read more.
YOUNG Public Health Nutrition NETWORK - The YPHN Network is open
to all who are interested in improving the next generation of public
health nutrition: ‘young’, proficient as well as more senior experts in
public health nutrition.
Read more.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2008. Biofuels: prospects, risks
and opportunities - This FAO flagship publication released 7 October
2008 explores the implications of the recent rapid growth in production of
biofuels based on agricultural commodities.
Read more.
Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Making it Happen
– the proceedings of an ENN-facilitated workshop on infant and young child
feeding in emergencies, held in Indonesia earlier this year - is now
available.
Read more.
The Nutrition Society Interim Professional Body for Nutrition
has updated its Information Sheets 1 - 4 on Resources in International
Nutrition.
Read more.
EC/FAO Free Food Security e-learning courses - designed to
support capacity building and on-the-job training.
Read more.
"No solution for food crisis without human rights" - new report from
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Oliver de Schutter.
Read more.
Terms of Reference released for the Thematic Window for
Children, Food Security and Nutrition under the Spanish MDG
achievements funds (MDG-F).
Read more.
World Food Prize 2008: Former U.S. Senators Robert Dole
and George McGovern have been selected to receive the 2008 World
Food Prize for their inspired, collaborative leadership that has
encouraged a global commitment to school feeding and enhanced school
attendance and nutrition for millions of the world’s poorest children,
especially girls.
Read more.
"Caught in the junk food trap" - new report from Consumers
International on marketing of unhealthy food to children in the Asia
Pacific. Read more.
IASC Global Nutrition Cluster: Toolkit for Addressing Nutrition in
Emergency Situations
Toolkit for Addressing Nutrition in Emergency Situations. The document can
be downloaded from the
IASC Nutrition Cluster website.
Read more.
New website: NutVal (www.nutval.net)
The planning, calculation and monitoring application for general food aid
rations.
Read more.
Maternal & Child Nutrition: Special issue on Strategies and
Interventions in Public Health Nutrition
Guest editors: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Meera Shekar and Tahmeed Ahmed.
Read more.
New website: The Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (FANS)
has set up its own website:
www.fans-web.org.
New website: The International Health Partnership (www.internationalhealthpartnership.net)
Read more.
World nutrition is under threat
Statement by the Civil Society constituency of the SCN at the 35th SCN
Session (March 2008) -
download here.
Establishing stunting as an additional indicator of endemic poverty
to monitor progress made towards the achievement of MDG 1. Draft
Statement from the SCN Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring & Evaluation
(March 2008) -
download here.
New website: CE-DAT Complex Emergency Monitor (www.cedat.be)
Access CE-DAT data through a map portal and a timeline tool including
overview of the nature of mortality in complex emergencies. The
April 2008 CE-DAT Scene newsletter introduces the new website tools.
New website: Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)
www.ipcinfo.org
The IPC is an innovative tool for improving food security analysis and
decision-making.
Read more.
Module 2 on Infant Feeding in Emergencies (IFE), updated by the
Infant Feeding in Emergencies Core Group, is available here from
www.ennonline.net/ife in
English and in French
For print copies please contact:
enn.office@gmail.com.
Read more.
How to use the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food to monitor
public policies?
This manual which was published by FIAN International and
Welthungerhilfe is one in a series of manuals on the human right to
food . Other publications in this series are titled “How to use the
Voluntary Guidelines on the right to food”, "Documenting violations of the
right to adequate food”, “Access to land and the right to food, “Parallel
Reporting before the UN CESCR”. The purpose of these publications is to
invite civil society organizations to make use of the progress made for
food as a human right in the decade after the World Food Summit 1996 – and
to equip civil society and other actors with some tools to hold
governments accountable.
English version available from
www.fian.org/resources/documents/others/screen-state-action-against-hunger
Spanish version available from:
www.fian.org/recursos/publicaciones/documentos/vigilando-la-accion-estatal-contra-el-hambre
Consumers International (CI) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF)
call for an International Code on Marketing of Food and Non-alcoholic
Beverages to Children.
Read more.
Visit the new webpage of the
SCN Task Force on Assessment,
Monitoring and Evaluation where you can
- read about work areas
- download fact sheets (available for 3 indicators: MUAC, Dietary
Diversity and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS))
- download an annotated Repository of documents related to food security
and nutrition indicators
- download a short statement on stunting as the main indicator for
endemic poverty
FAO D-Group on Acting Locally in Food Security, Nutrition and
Livelihoods - join this virtual group of nutrition professionals.
Read more.
The Lancet’s Nutrition Series - new website for nutrition advocates
The papers are available from
www.thelancet.com/collections/series/undernutrition with more articles
and speeches from the launch at
www.thelancet.com/online/focus/undernutrition. A new website for
nutrition was developed to support the launch of The Lancet’s Nutrition
Series at -
www.globalnutritionseries.org - which contain the advocacy material
from the launch, an Executive Summary of the Series and other material.
New WHO Growth Reference data for children and adolescents 5-19 years.
Reference charts and tables available for BMI-for-age (5-19 years),
height-for-age (5-19 years) and weight-for-age (5-10 years).
Read more.
Global Food Security and Nutrition Forum (FSN Forum)
Read
more about how to join the FSN Forum here.
The outcome of the global consultation and the final version of the
'Sydney Principles' to guide national and trans-national action to
substantially reduce commercial promotions that target children (printed
in SCN News 33) are now
available from the IOTF (International Obesity Task Force) website
at
www.iotf.org/sydneyprinciples
The Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative (ECHUI) has a new
website:
http://endingchildhunger.blogspot.com.
Please contact Michael Hutak of WFP at
endingchildhunger@gmail.com
to announce your nutrition or development programme, event or resource.
Statement by the Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies on WHO Growth
Standards
Innocenti Declaration 2005 breastfeeding package. In 2005,
participants at a meeting organized in Florence in 2005 to celebrate the
15th Anniversary of the 1990 Innocenti Declaration approved a new version
of the Innocenti Declaration which included the recommendations of the
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding and reaffirmed the
importance of promoting breastfeeding in the accomplishment of the
Millennium Development Goals. Read more and download documents at the
Innoncenti Reasearch Centre here.
Joint WHO/WFP/UNICEF/SCN Statement on Community-Based Management of
Severe Acute Malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition affects an estimated 20 million children
under the age of five worldwide. At least 15 million (75%) of them can be
treated at home through an innovative approach involving highly fortified,
ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTFs). The remaining estimated 25% of
severely malnourished children will still need traditional hospital-based
treatment. Read more.
SCN Endorses the New
WHO Growth Standards for Infants and Young Children.
Display posters can
be ordered from WHO.
ECOSOC/SCN Special Information Meeting:
In preparation for the September 2005 Millennium +5 High Level Plenary of
the UN General Assembly, 2005 Summit, ECOSOC, in consultation with the
SCN, held a special information meeting at the UN, New York on 7 June on
the Critical Role of Nutrition for Reaching the Millennium Development
Goals.
Click here for BACKGROUND BRIEFING NOTE.
Click here for the
Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations. Individual presentations
can be
downloaded here.
Details of all SCN publications
can be found here.
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