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Harmonized Training Package (HTP)
The SCN is hosting the Global Nutrition Cluster Harmonized Training Package (HTP). We welcome your comments to the HTP as well as any relevant training material that you may have developed. Read or download the module documents of the HTP here.
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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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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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The latest edition of the SCN News publication is available and downloadable from our website. The theme of the SCN News 38 is: Climate Change: food and nutrition security implications.
This publication has received contributions from a wide variety of researchers, field workers and program managers. It looks at the climate change implications on food and nutrition security through different lenses and from different perspectives: e.g.
- climate change and undernutrition
- climate change and crop yields
- climate change, nutrition and food security in sub-Saharan Africa
- climate change, nutrition and food security in the Asia Pacific region
- climate change, undernutrition and the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
- effects of climate change on the nutritional quality of food crops
- epigenetic epidemiology and food availability
- health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies
- climate change and human rights
- climate change, indigenous peoples and rainforests
- climate change, nutrition security and AIDS
This SCN News 38 also has a supplement on the ECOWAS Nutrition forum. It can be downloaded by clicking here.
In preparing this issue of the SCN News, we gratefully acknowledge funding assistance from USAID.
We hope that you find this edition interesting and thought provoking and we would like to hear from you. Write us at: scn@who.int
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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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"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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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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The WBW 2010 Towards a Baby-Friendly World Event is taking place now on the WBW website www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org.
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