SCN Task Forces

The SCN Action Plan envisioned three Task Forces of the Steering Committee to be established to work on cross-cutting issues in nutrition. These are:

Advocacy, Communication and Partnership Building (ACPB)
Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (AME)
Development of Integrated Approaches (DIA)

The SCN is not in itself an implementing agency. It is a forum in which the relevant UN agencies come together to harmonize their nutrition policies and programmes, coordinate activities and promote joint action, in partnership and common cause with representatives of national governments (the Bilateral Partners) and of non-government organizations (the NGOs/CSOs). Implementation of an Action Plan that goes beyond advocacy is therefore a challenge, but could be achieved if individual agencies including those that supply members of the SCN Steering Committee provide leadership of Task Forces established for each of the three first activitiy areas proposed in the SCN Strategic Framework 2006-2010 and the SCN Action Plan: Advocacy, Communication and Partnership Building; Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation; Development of Integrated Approaches; Mainstreaming of Human Rights; and, Identification of Key Scientific and Operational Gaps. Human rights is cross-cutting to the four other areas, and the area of identification of key scientific and operational gaps is best addressed through the SCN Working Groups.

To date, the Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation has worked on a continuing basis, and its webpage presents a variety of materials produced.

The Task Force on Advocacy, Communication and Partnerships Building was very active before the 34th SCN Session in Rome and was the driving force behind developing the current SCN logo.

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