UNSCN Action Plan

In order to pursue the UNSCN vision and realize its mandate during the five years period 2006-2010, five broad cross-cutting areas of activity will be pursued by the UNSCN, through its Steering Committee and its Working Group structures, with facilitation from the Secretariat. These five areas are agreed by the UNSCN body to be the key areas for an UNSCN Action Plan and include:

advocacy, communication and partnership building
assessment, monitoring and evaluation
development of integrated approaches
the mainstreaming of human rights
identifying key scientific and operational gaps

The human rights dimensions of food and nutrition programmes are not included as a stand alone set of activities in the Action Plan. Human rights including social, economic and cultural rights are central to all areas of UN activity as part of the ongoing process of UN Reform approved in 1997*. The human right to adequate food is therefore treated as a cross cutting theme that has to be addressed in all the other four key areas of activity of the UNSCN Action Plan.

Download the SCN Action Plan and Biennium Budget 2006-2007

* Annan, K 1997 Renewing the United Nations: A programme for reform. Report A/51/950. New York: United Nations.

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