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Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63)

11-22 March 2019
United Nations HQ, New York (USA)

The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) will take place at the UN HQ, New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. The priority theme for this year is social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Women’s access to social protection schemes is often a key strategy for empowering women and helping low-income families (in particular female-headed households) rise out of poverty. When working on gender through social protection, the nutritional impact of social protection mechanisms can be enhanced by facilitating access to diverse and nutritious foods (e.g. fresh food vouchers, or access to productive assets to produce diverse foods), by improving access to health services (e.g. conditional cash transfers tied to ante-natal care visits or participation in health insurance schemes), and associating nutrition education to the social protection program.

The following is a sampling of side events organized by UNSCN members that work to link nutrition with the 2019 theme:

The organization of work for CSW63, the official documents, and information about side events and activities organized outside the formal programme of the session are available online.

 

Banner: CSW63, The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 11-22 March 2019

UNSCN Discussion Paper - Water and Nutrition. Harmonizing actions for the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the UN Water Action Decade Progress for both SDG 2 and SDG 6 has been unsatisfactory, with several indicators worsening over time, including an increase in the number of undernourished, overweight and obese people, as well…
UNSCN Discussion Paper Urban-Rural Linkages for Nutrition. Territorial approaches for sustainable development The nutrition challenges facing the world of today are daunting. One out of three people suffers from at least one form of malnutrition, and current trends suggest this may increase in the coming…
UNSCN Brief “Non-communicable diseases, diets and nutrition” Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are now the leading cause of mortality worldwide; they are responsible for 70% of global deaths; equivalent to 40 million people. The health and economic repercussions…
Guidance Note on Integration of Nutrition in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (renamed Cooperation Framework) The purpose of this Guidance Note is to assist United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) with the integration of nutrition into the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework that…
UNSCN Discussion Paper - Schools as a System to Improve Nutrition Given the changing circumstances in the nutrition landscape, there is a need to reassess and reiterate the role of the schools in improving health and nutritional status of children. This discussion…