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