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NGO/Civil Society
The NGOs provide a broad spectrum of scientific, technical and service expertise to link the SCN to civil society. This includes, for example, links to academics and technical groups, international NGOs, and emergency and disaster relief service groups. They provide independent review at several levels, such as technical and scientific soundness of publications, projects and programmes, and an on-site analysis of needs, opportunities and constraints to agency programme effectiveness and their implementation with a human rights context. The NGO/Civil Society Group is currently chaired by Ted Greiner (Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea) and co-chaired by Elisabeth Sterken (IBFAN/Canada), Ricardo Uauy (IUNS) and Urban Jonsson (The Owls).
More than 150 NGOs, civil society representatives, academic institutions and private initiatives participate in the SCN. Over the past ten years, the following NGOs have participated in five or more of the SCN Sessions: Academy for Educational Development, Action Against Hunger/Action contre la faim, CARE, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Concern, Emergency Nutrition Network, Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Helen Keller International, Infant Feeding Action Coalition (INFACT), International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD), International Nutrition Foundation (INF), International Special Dietary Foods Industries (ISDI), International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS), Linkages, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Micronutrient Initiative, Oxfam, Partnership for Child Development, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Save the Children, Valid International, World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), World Alliance for Nutrition and Human Rights (WANAHR), World Health Policy Forum and World Vision.
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