Welcome to the UNSCN website

UNSCN is the food and nutrition policy harmonization forum of the United Nations.

The mandate of the UNSCN 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 Copenhagen Consensus 2012

The Copenhagen Consensus 2012 results are available!
In 2012, the Copenhagen Consensus Center's flagship project Copenhagen Consensus 2012 provides an answer to the question:

If we had an extra $75 billion to put to good use, which problems would we solve first?

The project, a culmination of 18 months of planning, research-writing and preparation, builds on the success of two past Copenhagen Consensus projects: Copenhagen Consensus 2004 and Copenhagen Consensus 2008.

The Copenhagen Consensus 2012 Expert Panel finds that fighting malnourishment should be the top priority for policy-makers and philantropists.

Read more by clicking below.

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Conference: Panel Event: “Acute malnutrition: Strengthening political commitment at the WHA & beyond”

The Panel Event "Acute malnutrition: Strengthening political commitment at the WHA & beyond", organized by Action Contre la Faim, Concern Worldwide and Helen Keller International will be held on Monday 21 May 2012, from 6 to 8pm, at the InterContinental Hotel ("Bern" room),7-9, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex, Geneva.

SPEAKERS
Mr Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, former President of Cape Verde and Nutrition Advocate for West Africa
Dr Francesco Branca, Director, Nutrition for Health & Development, WHO
Dr Serge Breysse, Director of Advocacy, ACF France
Ms Gwyneth Cotes, Nutrition Advisor, Concern Worldwide
Mr El Hadji Issakha Diop, CMAM Regional Coordinator, Helen Keller International
African Minister of Health - to be confirmed

Worldwide, 19 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Solutions exist to bring an end to this unacceptable situation, but much more needs to be done by governments at a national and international level. This year, at the 65th World Health Assembly, important decisions will be taken by Member States on nutrition with a vote on the "Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition".

With this in mind, ACF, Concern Worldwide and Helen Keller International, are convening a high-level panel event on acute malnutrition, which will bring together representatives of government delegations, international organizations, Ministers of Health from countries with a high burden of undernutrition, and civil society. The presentations and debates will be in English.

RSVP by Friday, 11th May, to Valérie Lucas at sad@actioncontrelafaim.org or +33 (0)1 43 35 86 34.

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Vacancy: World Food Programme Vacancy: Senior Liaison and Policy Officer (HIV) P5

The World Food Programme is currently looking for a Senior Liaison and Policy Officer (HIV) P5, for their liaison office in Geneva, Switzerland.

Deadline for applications: 18 May 2012.

For the Terms of Reference and more information regarding this vacancy, please click below.

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New at IFPRI: 2011 Global Food Policy Report

IFPRI launches the 2011 Global Food Policy Report, a new annual publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels.

The report highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011, discusses lessons learned, offers policy recommendations, presents IFPRI's food policy tools and indicators, and takes a look forward into 2012.

To read the report online, please click here.

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Training: Transforming Nutrition Policy Learning Programme

Transforming Nutrition Policy
Learning Programme
Institute of Development Studies, UK
23 - 27 July 2012

An acceleration of undernutrition reduction requires a transformative approach. This five-day course for policy shapers, policy makers and practitioners, takes the participant through new ways of thinking about undernutrition and what they can do about it.

The Programme is co-led by IDS Director Lawrence Haddad and IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Stuart Gillespie. Haddad and Gillespie have published extensively on the topics covered in this course.

For more details contact: nutrition2012@ids.ac.uk

To download the course flyer, please click below.

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Vacancy: ACF Vacany: Senior Technical Advisor – Nutrition (NUT)

Post: Senior Technical Advisor - Nutrition (NUT)
Reporting to: Technical Director
Responsible for: AAH - USA NUT Interventions
Location: New York, with regular visits to field, network and related meetings.

For more information re ACF employment and this vacancy, please click here
and/or contact Ms Silke Pietzsch, Senior Food Security & Livelihood Advisor: spietzsch@actionagainsthunger.org.

For the full job description, please click below.

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New publication: Field Exchange Digest (FEX D)

The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) has recently launched a new publication, called Field Exchange Digest (FEX D). This is an annual, digested read of ENN's flagship Field Exchange (FEX) that aims to reach a national audience.

FEX D is for practitioners working in nutrition and food security at national level with an emphasis on preparedness, emergency response, recovery and longer-term programmes. FEX D contains field articles from many different countries and contexts and up to date news about important things happening in the nutrition and food security sectors, including new guidelines, tools and training that may be relevant to you.

The next issue of FEX D will be available in English in May 2012. French and Arabic versions will be available soon after. Future issues will also be available in Spanish.

Readers will be asked to write articles about the nutrition programmes they are working on and to contribute news from their country and region.

To receive this publication free of charge, please click here to subscribe, or email office@ennonline.net.

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Global Monitoring Report 2012 ‘Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals’

The Global Monitoring Report 2012 ‘Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals', is a joint World Bank-IMF publication. The Report was launched on Tuesday, 24 April 2012.

Please note that the report can be downloaded free of charge on the World Bank's website www.worldbank.org/gmr2012.

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Key lessons on Nutrition Governance published by IDS

Institute of Development Studies:

Analysing Nutrition Governance is a policy research project that looks behind standard nutrition indicators to find out why some countries achieve improved nutrition outcomes while others make insufficient progress. Based on evidence from Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru and Zambia, the project aims to inform nutrition policy and advocacy. The project is based at the Institute for Development Studies, UK.

A new policy briefing summarises the key lessons on nutrition governance for those working on nutrition policy and advocacy.

Find out more and download key resources at the Analysing Nutrition Governance website.

Contact IDS if you have questions.

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Conference: World Health Assembly 2012: documents are available

The main documents and agenda for the World Health Assembly (WHA) 2012 have been posted on the WHO website, including papers on noncommunicable diseases (A65/6, 8 and 9), nutrition (A65/11 and A65/12), MDGs (A65/14 and 15) and social determinants of health (A65/16) among others.

Please click below for further reading.

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