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SCN Steering Committee
Role of the SCN Steering Committee
A Steering Committee of not more than ten members (composed of at least five UN agencies, and at least one each from the Bilateral and NGO/CSO constituencies) under the leadership of the SCN Chair and supported by the SCN Secretariat, guides and monitors the implementation of the Action Plan in the context of the Strategic Framework. The SCN Steering Committee was established in 2000. Prior to 2000 the SCN was guided by an Advisory Group on Nutrition (AGN) composed of distinguished experts. At the 27th Session in 2000 a Strategic Plan was adopted, the AGN was disbanded, and the Steering Committee.
See also Terms of Reference 4 in the SCN Strategic Framework 2006-2010.
Steering Committee members
Steering Committee members are appointed by the Chair for a three year period which is renewable. The UN agency representatives are the leading nutrition staff member from the agency concerned, and alternates are only permitted at the discretion of the Chair. One of the UN agencies on the Steering Committee represents the other agencies not represented on the SC.
The current members of the SCN Steering Committee are:
ChairRamiro Lopes da SilvaDeputy Executive Director of WFP |
scn@who.int |
Executive SecretaryDenise Costa Coitinho Delmuè |
scn@who.int |
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UN Agencies |
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| FAO: Ann Tutwiler Deputy Director General |
ann.tutwiler@fao.org |
| UNICEF: Werner Schultink Chief Nutrition Unit |
wschultink@unicef.org |
| WFP: Martin Bloem Chief Nutrition Service |
martin.bloem@wfp.org |
| WHO: Francesco Branca Director Department of Nutrition for Health and Development |
brancaf@who.int |
| World Bank: Meera Shekar Senior Nutrition Specialist Health, Nutrition and Population |
mshekar@worldbank.org |
| ‘other' UN agencies (IAEA, IFAD, IFPRI, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNU): Representative: IFAD: Sean Kennedy Technical Adviser, Human Health and Nutrition |
s.kennedy@ifad.org |
| Alternate: IAEA: Lena Davidsson Head, Nutrition & Health-Related Environmental Studies Section |
l.davidsson@iaea.org |
Bilateral Partners |
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| Chair: | |
| Germany: Hanns-Christoph Eiden President of the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Consumer Protection |
Hanns-Christoph.Eiden@ble.de |
| Co-Chair: | |
| Denmark: Jeanineke Dahl Kristensen Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark |
jedakr@um.dk |
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NGOs/Civil Society |
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| Chair: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea: Ted Greiner Professor of Nutrition |
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| tedgreiner@yahoo.com | |
| Co-Chairs: | |
| IBFAN/Canada: Elisabeth Sterken Director |
esterken@infactcanada.ca |
| IUNS: Ricardo Uauy President |
Ricardo.Uauy@lshtm.ac.uk |
| The Owls: Urban Jonsson International Consultant on Human Rights in Development |
urban@urbanjonsson.com |
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