Thirty-Second Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

Realizing the Right to Adequate Food to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Agenda

14-18 March 2005, Brasilia, Brazil
Hosted by the Government of Brazil

Chaired by Catherine Bertini, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management

Sunday 13 March
Sunday 13 March	1500-1800	Registration

Monday 14 March		Symposium on Realizing the Right to Adequate Food to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals
	0800-0900	Registration
	0900-1100	Opening Session—SCN Chair Catherine Bertini, Representative of the Brazilian Government, Representative of Civil Society/NGOs
	1100-1130	Break
	1130-1300	Country Case Studies on how to strengthen national food and nutrition plans to achieve the MDGs in the context of realizing the right to adequate food—SCN, Angola, Bolivia, Brazil and Mozambique
	1300-1430	Lunch Break
	1430-1520	The Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food: an important tool for realizing the MDGs—Aliro Omara, Uganda Human Rights Commission
	1520-1610	MDGs and the new child growth reference—Cutberto Garza, Vice Provost, Cornell University and Director, Food and Nutrition Programme, UNU
	1610-1630	Break
	1630-1730	Dr Abraham Horwitz Lecture—Kaia Engesveen, University of Oslo
	1730-1800	Closing Session—SCN Chair, Catherine Bertini Concluding remarks Explanation of the SCN Working Sessions programme for the rest of the week

Tuesday 15 March		Working Sessions (Separate, parallel sessions)
	0830-0930	Separate, parallel sessions: Brazilian National Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF) Capacity Building Workshop (0930-1800) UN SCN (Agencies, Bilaterals, NGOs/CSOs)—SCN Chair, Catherine Bertini Presentation of SCN draft work plan proposal for 2005-2010
	0930-1100	UN Agencies (Chair: Catherine Bertini) Bilateral Partners (Chair: Arne Oshaug) NGOs/CSOs (Chair: Flavio Valente)
	1100-1130	Break
	1130-1300	SCN Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights (Chair: Urban Jonsson)
	1300-1430	Lunch Break
	1430-1600	SCN Working Group on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding (Co-Chairs: Miriam Labbok, Randa Saadeh, Reina Buijs)
	1600-1630	Break
	1630-1800	SCN Working Group on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS (Chair: Andrew Tomkins)

Wed 16 March		Working Sessions
	0830-0930	Plenary: State-of-the-art lecture: Anaemia and iron deficiency—Sean Lynch, Eastern Virginia Medical School
	0930-1100	Separate, parallel sessions: Brazilian National HRAF Capacity Building Workshop (0930-1800) SCN Working Group on Capacity Building (Co-Chairs: Cutberto Garza, David Sanders, Hans Schoeneberger)
	1100-1130	Break
	1130-1300	SCN Working Group on Nutrition of School Age Children (Co-Chairs: Joy del Rosso, Arlene Mitchell)
	1300-1430	Lunch Break
	1430-1600	SCN Working Group on Household Food Security (Co-Chairs: Florence Egal, Shakuntala Thilsted)
	1600-1630	Break
	1630-1800	SCN Working Group on Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle (Co-Chairs: Ricardo Uauy, Ted Greiner)

Thursday 17 March		Working Sessions (Separate, parallel sessions)
	0830-1000	Separate, parallel sessions: SCN Working Group Nutrition in Emergencies (Co-Chairs: Fathia Abdallah, Caroline Wilkinson) Brazilian National HRAF Capacity Building Workshop (0930-1530)
	1000-1300	Separate, parallel sessions: UN Agencies Bilateral Partners NGOs/CSOs
	1300-1430	Lunch break
	1430-1530	Separate, parallel sessions: Poster Session/Networking time for all participants Meeting of SCN Chair and Secretary with Steering Committee and Working Group Chairs
	1530-1600	Break
	1600-1800	Plenary: State-of-the-art lecture: Addressing the challenge of the double burden of disease in developing countries—Ricardo Uauy (Chair), Juan Rivera, Carlos Monteiro, Fernando Vio, Denise Coitinho
	1900	Dinner

Friday 18 March		Plenary: Closing Sessions
	0830-1030	Reports from (20 minutes per group): UN Agencies Bilateral Partners NGOs/CSO Discussion (60 minutes)
	1030-1100	Break
	1100-1300	Brazilian National HRAF Capacity Building Workshop Conclusions and Recommendations Discussion Presentation of Annual Work Plan of SCN Working Groups and SCN Secretariat Discussion Close of 32nd Session
	1300-1430	Lunch

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Thirty-Second Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

Realizing the Right to Adequate Food to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Agenda

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