First Meeting of the
UN System Network for Scaling Up
Nutrition
Sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany
Nairobi, Kenya, 26-28 August 2013
First Meeting of the UN System Network for SUN
Contents
Executive summary
1. UN agencies roles and responsibilities for optimal operationalization
of the UN System Network for SUN
2. Countries needs and expectations and the UN Network response
3. Towards a harmonized approach in nutrition-sensitive development
– the case for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
4. Launch of the UN System Network for SUN
5. Better together - Recommendations
6. Meeting Resolutions - Commitments
Annex
1. Country case studies on the nutrition-sensitivity of agriculture and
food policies
2. Meeting agenda
3. List of participants
This summary report endeavors to capture the key issues discussed and the recommendations and
resolutions agreed upon during the first meeting of the UN System Network for Scaling Up Nutrition that
took place in Nairobi, 26-28August 2013. For a complete account of the meeting’s concept paper,
agenda, presentations and photos, please refer to the UN Network for SUN page on the UNSCN website
www.unscn.org.
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Executive Summary
Rational and objectives
The UN system plays a key role in collectively supporting the process of scaling up nutrition in countries.
The UN System Network for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) (from here on referred to as the UN Network) is
one of the five Networks of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. The UN Network is an
interagency platform that facilitates joint UN action in nutrition at global, regional and country levels.
Co-facilitated by the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) and the Renewed Efforts
Against Child Hunger and Undernutrition (REACH), it ensures harmonized nutrition guidance and
approaches for country-led efforts to scaling up nutrition. UNSCN is mandated for global level UN
system wide harmonization and REACH is mandated to facilitate joint UN country level support. The UN
Network is intended to bolster on-going UN efforts to respond upon request to the needs of countries
committed to address nutrition challenges.
Efforts to establish the UN Network for SUN started in 2012, including the formulation of a Concept
Note that defines roles and responsibilities, membership and modus operandi. The UN agencies with a
nutrition mandate have since worked together to define a Work Plan1 that has been approved by the
five heads of agencies in June 2013 in London2. In their letter the 5 Principals announce also the formal
launch of the UN System Network for Scaling Up Nutrition later in the year. This launch took place in
Nairobi (Kenya) on 28th August during the first face-to-face UN Network meeting. The meeting was
sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) of the Federal
Republic of Germany through the UNSCN secretariat.
The meeting provided a unique space to country UN nutrition teams for discussing the roll out and
strengthening of joint UN action at country level, discuss and agree on common issues around replying
to country needs, learn from each other and strengthen relationships across agencies and with country
focal points. Furthermore, the meeting offered the opportunity to engage the UN system beyond FAO,
WFP, UNICEF, and WHO to other UN actors including IFAD, Bioversity International, IAEA, UNFPA,
UNHCR and IASC Food Security Cluster and IASC Nutrition Cluster.
At the last day of this meeting, the UN System Network for Scaling Up Nutrition was officially launched.
For this launch, the African region had been chosen as one of the regions most affected by the
challenges of malnutrition.
The main objectives of the meeting aimed at:
1. An increased collaboration between UN agencies at country level for optimal joint support to
policy formulation and scaling-up nutrition, and common understanding of the role and
responsibility of the UN and the UN Network for SUN at country level.
1
http://www.unscn.org/files/Newsletters/UNNetwork_letters/Final_endoresed_version_UN_Network_Workplan_7
_June_2013.pdf
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http://www.unscn.org/en/sun_un_network/
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2. Harmonizing the UN system wide approach to nutrition-sensitive development, by fostering a
common understanding of the complementarity of agency responsibilities, taking nutritionagriculture linkages as an example.
3. Consulting with UN agencies, country teams and stakeholders on the UN Network workplan and
future strategic directions.
Participants
The meeting was attended by 140 participants who included UN country teams working in nutrition in
18 countries in Africa, REACH facilitators, representatives from 13 SUN participating countries in Africa,
and invited guests from donors. UN agencies global and regional representatives from initiating partners
namely FAO, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and beyond including IFAD, UNHCR, UNFPA, IAEA, Bioversity
International, IASC Nutrition Cluster and IASC Food Security Cluster were participating. The meeting was
co-facilitated by the UN Network facilitators Dr Francesco Branca, the UNSCN Executive Secretary, and
Nancy Walters, the Global REACH Coordinator. The Coordinator of the SUN Movement, Dr David
Nabarro, joined the group for the Regional Launch of the UN Network on 28th August 2013.
Conclusions
The meeting concluded that the UN Network for SUN is not new. It has, in fact, been in place for many
years supporting government-led nutrition efforts in a large number of countries. What is new is the
link to the global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement which provides new opportunities to make very
significant contributions based on the unique mandates, experience and expertise and the multi-sectoral
organization of the UN system. This is well recognized by the UN Secretary General as well as the Heads
of FAO, WHO, UNICEF and WHO and the latter have issued letters of instructions to their respective
agencies to intensify joint UN agency efforts to support the SUN process in-country with emphasis on
effectiveness, coherence and collaboration.
It was noted that the UN Network was institutionalized already in 1977 with the establishment of the
UN SCN to harmonize UN system-wide nutrition policies and standards. This was followed in 2008 with
the REACH initiative to harmonize UN in-country nutrition programming. However, it was recognized
that UN SCN and REACH are both supporting mechanisms while the core of the UN Nutrition Network is
the UN agencies at country level and – in particular – their team of nutrition experts working in support
of the government nutrition focal points and in close collaboration with other partners.
It was further noted that the UN ‘joint programming’ modalities and arrangements at country level
provide an adequate platform for improved UN nutrition programming as exemplified by several good
examples presented to the meeting. This mechanism should be further developed and countries will be
supported to share experiences and methodologies to further accelerate the scaling-up process.
Government representatives attending the meeting expressed their expectations and their concerns
with regard to a strengthened UN Network. Foremost among these were increased UN agency technical
and financial support to national nutrition policies and programmes and the need to improve UN agency
coherence and collaboration. The UN agencies were encouraged to step up their great advocacy
potential in order to strengthen the sense of urgency and high priority of nutrition as a key – and
hitherto largely neglected – determinant of human and economic development.
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The capacity for the UN system to support the necessary but complicated multi-sectoral approach to
nutrition improvements was given special attention and it was emphasized that this offers special
opportunities for the UN system to support ‘nutrition-sensitive’ developments. Nutrition-sensitive
agriculture development was taken as an example and discussed in some detail. Based on selected good
country examples, some initial good programming principles are emerging, including the need to
improve targeting and participation of nutritionally vulnerable groups and special recognition of the
critical role of women as providers and decision-makers but equally important as the ones whose
nutritional status has to improve in order to contain the problems of malnutrition.
Meeting Resolution - Commitments
While endorsing the long series of recommendations formulated by the meeting, Mr. Ramiro Lopez da
Silva, speaking on behalf of Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme,
who represents the UN Network in the SUN Lead Group, made four final and specific promises, taking
the following commitments with his colleagues that work with him in the context of UNSCN and REACH,
that
1. To present to the principals a clear cut proposal on how to stabilize, deepen and expand REACH.
2. To consolidate and expand the UN Network for SUN by ensuring that agencies have the
opportunity to engage with the UN Network and have the opportunity to engage with the
Standing Committee on Nutrition. The Standing Committee on Nutrition continues to play a key
role as the UN Policy reconciliation, policy formulation forum at global level. And it is important
to establish these links as we are establishing the ‘SCN and REACH UN Nutrition Network’.
3. To present to the principals a draft accountability framework addressing how the UN agencies
are mutually accountable among themselves. And contribute this to the larger effort to establish
an accountability framework for the SUN Movement.
4. To jointly feel out, promote and expand joint UN programming for nutrition and work on the
UNDAF.
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1. UN agencies responsibilities for optimal operationalization
of the UN System Network for SUN
A Common Understanding and Initial Assessment
The opening speeches of the meeting reflected great expectations for the outcomes while cautiously
recognizing that there is a long list of issues that need to be carefully reviewed, discussed and resolved.
For some major insights see the quotes below.
Quotes from the Opening Session
“Nutrition is key – without good nutrition there can be no development!... This meeting is very timely; take up your
role and act now!”
Custodia Mandlhate, WHO Representative and UNRC a.i.c. for Kenya, in her Welcome Address
“The UN is doing amazing work in the area of nutrition but can do much more if we fully use our mandates,
capacity and our unique multi-sectoral structure. However, we need to be aware that in the world around us there
is still confusion and doubts as to UN system coordination and collaboration and we must respond constructively
and demonstrate that we support nutrition efforts in all countries effectively and coherently. The UN Network
should become our means to translate these commitments and principles into reality and actions. ”
Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of UNSCN and AED WFP, in his Opening Remarks
“Levels of undernutrition across the world are coming down but are still too high and this has serious implications
for human and national developments. The situation in Africa is most concerning. The good news is that there are
now an increasing number of country experiences that demonstrate the improvements are possible with a
combination of effective interventions and community nutrition work. The UN system is well-placed to support
sharing and implementation of good practices and good programming principles within the SUN Movement.”
Steven Allen, UNICEF Regional Director a.i.c, in the Keynote Address
“The Government of Kenya is well-prepared for scaling up of nutrition and has taken a series of steps to establish a
strong policy framework to this end. The UN system in Kenya has been supporting the government in every step
along this way as one of the key priorities in the ‘UN delivering as One’ which provides a very good framework for
UN collaboration in the area of nutrition.”
Custodia Mandlhate, WHO Representative Kenya, in her statement on the Role of UN
Country Team for Optimal Support to National Policy Priorities in Emergency and
Development.
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Mercedes de Onis, Coordinator Growth Assessment and Surveillance, WHO Geneva, provided an update
of the burden of malnutrition in Africa based on latest analysis of data on country trends and
comparisons. She highlighted that the problem of stunting has received elevated attention during recent
years because the problem is huge with 165 million children worldwide being stunted. The effect of
stunting on human development and hence national development is serious. Whereas the situation in
most parts of the world has improved this is not the case in Africa where 22 out of the 34 countries with
the highest burden of stunting can be found. Comparatively new is the realization of the fact that a
significant proportion of stunting originates in the period before birth. Therefore, increased emphasis is
needed on the prevention of maternal malnutrition during pregnancy and before conception, especially
in adolescent girls. In addition, proper breast-feeding and complementary feeding remains major
factors in the prevention of stunting and need renewed and stronger efforts.
Why do we need a UN Network for Scaling Up Nutrition?
Martin Gallagher, Policy Advisor in the Secretariat of the Scaling-up Nutrition (SUN) Movement,
reflected on the evolution of the SUN Movement since its launch in 2010 in response to a series of
efforts to better organize a coherent response to the pervasive and persistent problems of malnutrition.
Over 100 stakeholder groupings from donors, UN agencies, NGOs, academia and private sector were
initial signatories. The key principle adopted by the movement is to establish better organized, incountry stakeholder networks under government leadership for the purpose of accelerating nutritionscaled up actions.
Since then, four key processes are pursued: 1) mobilization of stakeholder networks and establishment
of multi-stakeholder platforms, 2) formulation and update of national nutrition policy and legal
frameworks, 3) formulation of agreed common results framework combined with costed national plan
of action for nutrition, 4) resource mobilization and accountability. The results after only 3 years are
very promising as over 40 countries have officially joined the movement. There is unprecedented
attention and momentum for nutrition in global and national forums, and impressive progress in
updating of policies and plans. Some initial evidence of actual improvements in stunting is being
observed. The heart of the movement is the participating governments supported by strong SUN
networks.
Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of UNSCN and Assistant Executive Director WFP, addressed the apparently
challenging question ‘Why do we need a UN Network for SUN?’ As he points out, the UN Network is not
new. …’‘We, the UN, are already supporting nutrition in most countries. The UN has the knowledge and
experience, it has the mandate -in fact across all the key sectors-, it has the capacity, it has access to
governments and partners. All of these are important conditions for making strong contributions to the
improvement of nutrition in countries. What we need to find out is how we can leverage these
tremendous resources even better in support of global advocacy and in-country nutrition actions’’.
Francesco Branca, UNSCN Executive Secretary, and Nancy Walters, Global REACH Coordinator, lay out
the different roles of the UN Network. In fact, the UN Network was an integral part of the SUN
Movement right from the beginning and played a key role in the development of the SUN principles and
many of its working modalities, including its working groups and task forces and was indeed performing
the role of an interim SUN secretariat until the SUN Movement Secretariat, SMS, was formed. At these
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early stages the UN agencies were primarily represented by the UN Standing Committee for Nutrition,
UNSCN, and the partnership for Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger, REACH.
Based on the experiences of working with the SUN Movement during the past three years, it is now
becoming increasingly clear that the main roles and functions of the UN Network has to be assumed by
the UN teams at country level and particularly the country team of technical nutrition specialists (in
most countries organized as the UN nutrition working group). The specific roles and responsibilities of
the UNSCN and REACH, consequently, have to become more supportive to these in-country UN Network
structures and its activities as depicted in the diagram below:
The UNSCN and the REACH secretariats, located in Geneva with WHO and in Rome with WFP, are
respectively but functionally becoming one secretariat with regard to their support functions to the UN
Network for SUN, with a joint governing structure and with ongoing, almost daily, exchange of
information in order to strengthen efforts and to ensure optimal and effective response to country level
support needs.
Within the broader division of work between the UNSCN and REACH, the following specific
responsibilities are assigned to the UNSCN:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Provide strategic leadership in nutrition in the UN system,
Harmonize policies, concepts and strategies across the UN agencies,
Enhance dialogue, linkages and partnerships between constituencies,
Support knowledge exchange, including good practices, and networking,
Monitor and track progress.
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The UN REACH partnership, on the other hand, is focusing more directly on support to joint UN nutrition
programming at country level, where REACH facilitators are temporarily assuming the role of bringing
the in-country UN agency capacities better together and in line with government efforts to scale-up
nutrition actions. Hence, REACH is not duplicating the already existing roles of UN agencies at country
level but systematically addresses the issues and critical tasks to further enhance effective UN
collaboration. In the process, REACH has developed a strong focus on support to nutrition governance
as a pre-requisite condition for effective, multi-sectoral management of nutrition actions as
schematically outlined below.
The partnership seeks to accelerate progress towards MDG 1, target 2, by facilitating improved
nutrition governance
Roles and responsibilities of UN system agencies, challenges and opportunities to
strengthen UN collaboration in nutrition
Francesco Branca, UNSCN Executive Secretary and WHO Director for Nutrition, in his introductory
remarks emphasizes that he is sure we can easily agree that UN collaboration in nutrition is imperative
for all kind of reasons. However, fact is that there is no choice: the UN ECOSOC decided already more
than 30 years ago that this must be institutionalized as ECOSOC created the UN Standing Committee on
Nutrition, the UNSCN, in 1977. Still we know that there are problems and that UN collaboration both at
global and at country levels can be improved.
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‘’Our commitment to fully engage in and support the SUN Movement and our decision to establish a UN
Network for SUN provides a good opportunity to review, discuss and find the way forward towards a
stronger and more effective UN collaboration in response to the needs to address malnutrition. Let us
remember that in order to agree on the solution, we first have to agree on what is the problem.
Therefore, let us look at what are the key contributions of the individual agencies to nutrition, what are
the obstacles and what are critical synergies that our respective agencies identify as we launch and
commit ourselves to the new UN Network for Nutrition.’’
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Barbara Burlingame, FAO Deputy Director Nutrition,
states that for FAO, the main issue in relation to the global SUN Movement relates to the need to find
sustainable solutions to the realization of the right to food, and to food security and to nutrition
security. FAO promotes:
The concept of ‘sustainable diets’ which includes sustainable agriculture but goes far beyond
and addresses aspects of the following,
Food safety,
The right to culturally acceptable diets,
The control of food losses and waste, and
Food based solutions to malnutrition.
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF): Werner Schultink, UNICEF Chief of Nutrition, lays out that since nutrition
is of key importance for the survival, development and protection of children, it has always been a very
high priority. There are four major issues and challenges for UNICEF’s work in nutrition at present in
order to be fully effective in addressing the problem of stunting, UNICEF needs to:
Change from a vertical and mono-focal approach to specific nutrition problems (salt iodization,
vitamin A supplementation, CMAM, etc.) to a comprehensive approach with mutually
supportive actions which requires increased collaboration and coordination with different
sectors and actors;
Establish more direct linkages between operational level and policy levels to ensure more rapid
responses and learning from experiences;
Work towards increased and better coordination to achieve better convergence of critical
actions;
Put more emphasis on resilience in areas with pervasive and repeated nutrition emergencies
like in the Sahel and Horn of Africa.
All these issues require improved collaboration with UN agencies and other partners.
World Food Programme (WFP): Martin Bloem, WFP Chief of Nutrition, in his intervention states that, as
we are forming the UN Network, there is a lot we can learn from UNAIDS and the UN response to the
HIV/AIDS pandemic. We recognized the problem – HIV/AIDS – and then defined how our respective
agency mandates and capacities could contribute to solutions of this problem. We should follow the
same process in defining our agency roles and responsibilities in our response to the urgent problems of
malnutrition.
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WFP with its proven capacity to deliver ‘the right food to the right place at the right time’ is presently:
Exploring with partners how to enhance its stunting prevention effectiveness through better
food and nutrition supplementation during pregnancy and for adolescent girls, and
Redoubling its efforts to support improved complementary feeding during the critical age of 624 months.
In these efforts WFP believes it has to find effective ways to collaborate with UN agency partners and
also with industry as well as NGOs.
World Health Organization (WHO): Francesco Branca, WHO Director for Nutrition, explains that WHO is
both elevating and changing its approach to nutrition work in response to the global nutrition situation
and on demand from its member countries. The World Health Assembly has adopted 6 global nutrition
targets and WHO is developing new and more effective approaches to:
Update nutrition guidelines, whereby the updated guidelines are made widely accessible
through IT and by translating them into several languages, and
Establish monitoring systems to help the achievement of the nutrition targets.
The main challenge is on how to help countries operationalize these guidelines within their local
contexts and that is where WHO really needs strong collaboration with partners with stronger incountry capacity – in the first instance with the UN agency partners.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Satvita Chalasani, UNFPA Technical Specialist, confirms that
UNFPA fully recognizes the importance of nutrition for reproductive health outcomes and vice versa.
UNFPA appreciates the opportunity to engage in the UN Network for SUN and with UN and other SUN
partners at country level. Presently UNFPA is establishing stronger partnerships with WFP and with
UNICEF through a proposed multi-country collaboration. UNFPA sees two particular challenges of
nutrition for reproductive health outcomes:
The lack of strong global, operational guidelines and ‘best practices’ for maternal nutrition and
nutrition in adolescent girls.
The challenge of integrating nutrition and reproductive health given health systems/health
workforces and community-based platforms that are often under-resourced and operating
beyond capacity.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Nutrition Specialist, explains that the
IAEA supports the application of nuclear techniques in different areas, including nutrition. The IAEA
complements the work of other UN agencies, NGO’s and other major players in nutrition and health. Its
role in the UN Network for SUN could be complementary by adding value to nutrition assessments:
Supporting the use of stable isotope techniques (non radioactive) in the monitoring and
evaluation of nutrition actions and outcomes (body composition, human milk intake, vitamin A
status, etc.).
IAEA does not have country or regional representation and, hence, will have to depend on partners –
especially UN partners – to identify opportunities for IAEA to engage in the SUN process at country level.
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): Allison Oman, Senior Regional Nutrition and
Food Security Officer, UNHCR Regional Support Hub, Kenya, underlines that UNHCR believes that it
needs to be part of the SUN Movement and the UN Network for SUN to ensure that:
Different groups of refugee populations and people of concern ( including urban refugees,
stateless, returnees) are included in the identification of and support to those with high risk of
malnutrition since these groups are often among the most vulnerable;
Recognize the same issues that apply for the nationals (such as chronic under-nutrition,
micronutrient deficiencies, maternal under-nutrition) also apply for refugees, but the program
response might be different given the specific status of refugees.
UNHCR plays a coordinating role in addressing the specific nutrition needs for refugees and people of
concern, ensuring that partnerships are developed that ensure that refugees have access to food and
nutrition according to standards. Hence it has close collaborations with many UN agencies with regard
to food security and nutrition, primarily with WFP, UNICEF, UNFPA and WHO. UNHCR does not always
have specific links in country to the government sectors addressing nutrition (health, agriculture) but
rather with the government agency responsible for refugee issues, which can mean that refugees can be
neglected in national legislation developed addressing nutrition. At the same time, UNHCR has very
strong nutrition assessment tools (SENS) that could serve as a model for collection data on
micronutrient deficiencies as well as other key nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive sectors. Hence,
UNHCR looks forward to engage with the UN Network for SUN both at global, regional and country
levels to further help to ensure that the nutrition needs of refugee populations are recognized and
responded to.
Bioversity International: Gudrun Keding, Nutrition Officer Bioversity International Kenya, explains that
Bioversity is an agriculture research organization which is not part of but works very closely with the UN
system on issues related to food and nutrition security. Bioversity has a newly developed nutrition
strategy and fully realizes the importance to further:
Strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. It already has many ongoing operational research
activities in this area.
Defining critical aspects of ‘sustainable diets’, on which they are working with FAO as one of
their partners.
Currently Bioversity International is enhancing its nutrition technical capacity. Bioversity believes in its
very supportive complementarity to the SUN Movement efforts and believes that a close collaboration
and engagement with the UN Network for SUN would be extremely helpful in that respect. Bioversity is
already an active member of the UNSCN.
IASC Food Security Cluster and IASC Nutrition Clusters: George Alien and Josephine Ippe, respectively
Global Cluster Coordinators, state that the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) emergency cluster
system is not part of the UN system but UN agencies are providing leadership for the clusters at global,
national and sub-national levels. The nutrition cluster is led by UNICEF and the food security cluster is
jointly led by FAO and WFP. In recent years, the cluster approach has demonstrated successes in
bringing key actors together for better coordinated emergency responses in a large number of
countries.
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As challenges, the cluster coordinators identified the need to:
Better link relief and rehabilitation and development (LRRD), as increasingly emphasized in the
concept of resilience which is very relevant for food and nutrition security.
To build emergency responses upon existing in-country mechanisms that can facilitate the early
formation of cluster arrangements at the onset of an emergency as well as be transformed into
strengthened development capacities after the emergency. There are positive examples of this
from Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Stronger collaborate with the SUN Movement and the UN Network for SUN could greatly help in
these efforts.
Since many of the countries with a high burden of malnutrition are either affected by severe complex
crises or recovering from such conditions, it was noted that the UN Network for SUN needs to establish
stronger linkages to the food security and nutrition clusters in order to use all opportunities to create
effective, continuous linkages between emergency response and development programming.
Example
The nutrition cluster has already embarked on a ‘Transformative Agenda’ to address these issues. Some
initial experiences are:
- The linking of emergency to nutrition development is easier if the government is already well
organized so that cluster coordination can be fully integrated in existing structures and
programmes. Good examples: Ethiopia and Kenya.
- Many capacities developed in emergency response can be transferred to government
development nutrition programming and vice versa, e.g. CMAM, rapid survey and assessment
capacities, planning and coordination.
- The fact that the UN Humanitarian Coordinator and the UN Resident Coordinator is usually one
and the same person (or working closely together) should provide an opportunity for the UN
system to take a lead in linking emergency nutrition to development.
- It is of advantage if cluster members have direct entry points to the national SUN network
structures as this will facilitate the link up of the different coordinating mechanisms without
‘losing out’ key partners.
Country level experiences in joint UN programming for nutrition
Three UN country teams shared their experiences with concrete examples of UN collaboration and joint
programming: Burundi, Cameroon and Ghana. The detailed presentations are available at the SCN
website3. All of them showed promising developments in establishing a strong and well-coordinated UN
support to government-led scaling-up of nutrition actions. Although challenges exist, the UN agencies
have managed, through mutual support, to help the process of joint support forward. The UN
Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) process has been used as the basis for the joint UN
3
http://www.unscn.org/en/sun_un_network/nairobi-un-network-meeting/agenda-part-i.php
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programming efforts in these countries. It was concluded that the existing UNDAF framework guidelines
and provisions may need update and improvements. However, the current UNDAF frameworks should
NOT be seen as an obstacle but rather an opportunity for a good facilitating mechanism for UN joint
programming in nutrition.
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2. Countries’ needs and expectations and the UN Network
response
Countries needs and expectations
In a panel discussion country representatives from Kenya, Senegal, Uganda and Zimbabwe shared their
expectations and concerns regarding the support from UN agencies. A series of constructive points
were expressed from which the main expectations towards the UN system are summarized as follows:
Provide strong support to nutrition advocacy based on the UN as a credible voice on key
developmental issues.
UN agencies to improve and increase their support to multi-sectoral planning, coordination,
monitoring and evaluation.
Give strong focus on capacity building to ensure sustained, country-led reduction of
malnutrition.
Provide strong support to knowledge sharing, documentation and learning.
UN to better coordinate internally in order to ‘speak one language’ and move in tandem with
government.
UN Network’s response
The UN agencies subsequently responded to each of these expectations as follows:
UN Network support to Advocacy:
• The UN agencies will continue to build the evidence base for investing in nutrition development
(cost of hunger studies, etc.).
• UN agencies use their voice at regional and national levels to encourage governments to
increase their own resource allocations and to seek additional external support to nutrition
developments.
• Based on existing evidence UN agencies advocate for stronger inclusion and articulation of
nutrition as a priority objective in national development plans.
• The UN agencies directors at country and especially regional level should commit themselves to
promote and support nutrition as a key development issue and to provide a harmonized UN
agency support upon request of countries, as institutionalized in the UN Network for SUN.
UN Network support to Multi-Sectoral Planning and Programming
• UN agencies need to adopt a stronger ‘nutrition lens’ in programme planning, meaning
promoting a better understanding of how development processes affect the nutritional situation
in different population groups at risk.
• Whenever possible UN agencies need to adjust UN supported programmes in ways that
enhance nutrition outcomes (e.g. nutrition-sensitive development).
• The UN agencies to ensure that nutrition is addressed across the emergency-recoverydevelopment continuum in a manner that optimizes effectiveness and sustainability of nutrition
actions across this spectrum.
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The UN agencies to select development partners (government and non-governmental) that can
help to strengthen the nutrition focus and outcomes of UN supported programmes.
The UN agencies traditionally focused on nutrition (FAO, WHO, UNICEF and WFP) to reach out
and include in the UN Network for SUN those other UN agencies with great potential to enhance
nutrition outcomes of UN system in-country support, e.g. IFAD, UNHCR, UNFPA, IAEA, Bioversity
International, IASC Nutrition Cluster, IASC Food Security Cluster and others.
UN agencies to actively explore complementarity, convergence and linkages between
programme areas in order to enhance nutrition outcomes. Examples: food security and
nutrition programme linkages to education, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), early
childhood development, youth and adolescents, social protection and micro-credit, etc.
UN agencies to jointly support improvement of nutrition indicators and metrics with special
emphasis on the need for harmonized, multi-sectoral nutrition information systems.
UN Network support to National Capacity Development in Nutrition
• The UN system should always try to support and further improve existing, national nutrition
coordination and implementation systems and institutional frameworks rather than creating
new and/or parallel systems.
• Recognizing that multi-sectoral nutrition management information systems (including M&E
systems) are essential for effective and sustained scaling-up of nutrition action, the UN system
should consistently endeavor to build and strengthen national capacity in this area.
• Nutrition changes at family and community level and, hence, the scaling-up nutrition process
needs to focus primarily at community-based approaches and the UN system should
consistently adopt a participatory methodology for the purpose of allowing people to realize
their right to nutrition security (a ‘Human Rights Based Approach to Programming’).
• The UN system should always be prepared to share their vast experiences in areas such as
warehousing, food production and processing, marketing and logistics in order to support the
governments to adopt more effective, sustainable and safe food systems.
UN Network support to Documentation, Sharing of Experiences and Learning
• Build upon and learn from the successful experiences from the work of the IASC Food Security
Cluster and IASC Nutrition Cluster in connecting to and working with a long range of partners to
achieve joint nutrition objectives.
• Learn from and apply the successful experiences of UNAIDS in establishing a sensible and
effective ‘division of labor’ while providing opportunity to listen to civil society views and advice.
• Establish inclusive and easily accessible knowledge sharing platforms to disseminate ‘good
practices’ and facilitate ‘community of practice’ networks in nutrition programming.
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UN Network and the call to better coordinate internally in support of government -“ BETTER TOGETHER”
• The Meeting agreed that this is the area where a UN Network for SUN has to become most
effective.
• There has to be an end to UN agency internal ‘bickering’ on mandates, leadership and
competing for resources.
The Chair of the UNSCN, Mr. Ramiro Lopes de Silva, called this a ‘cultural revolution’, a change of mindset, in response to the opportunity to use the global SUN Movement for the UN system to make a
difference in the historical strive to combat hunger and ensure good nutrition for all. To this end, the
Meeting adopted a series of specific recommendations (see 22 ff).
Better together through:
Speaking the same language and move in tandem
Transcend agency mandates (“leave your hats at the door”)
Identifying comparative advantages for optimal impact
Employing a holistic approach to minimize fragmentation
Establishing a culture of collaboration rather than thinking of a division of labour.
Country level UN Network for SUN - the Example of Kenya
The UN Country Directors or deputies from Kenya country offices of WHO, FAO, UNICEF and WFP,
under the moderation of Dr David Nabarro, the SUN Global Coordinator, discussed complementarities
and synergies between their UN agencies in supporting the Kenyan Government in scaling up nutrition.
The panelists articulated five major issues that emerged from their recent experience in working in
nutrition and supporting the government of Kenya to initiate an accelerated scaling-up of nutrition
process as the country joined the SUN Movement:
It is important to recognize the political reality in your country. All countries are different in this
respect and the UN system needs to identify the opportunities and challenges within the system
where they are working. Parallel systems will not lead to sustainable solutions.
The UN system work in-country should respond to the needs and rights of the people, hence a
community and household focus is essential.
It is the role of the government to provide and establish a strong umbrella for nutrition actions,
like through a comprehensive National Food and Nutrition Policy and the National Nutrition
Action Plan in the case of Kenya.
Results matter! And results at scale! Successful ‘pilot projects’ are not automatically and easily
expanded and accessible to those most in need.
Agencies have to consider both vertical consistency (do well what you should and can do) as
well as horizontal coherence (meaning linking with other relevant sectors, agencies and actors).
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The discussion that followed the panel identified the following key issues in UN supporting the country
government:
How can the UN agencies mobilize sufficient resources to play their role more effectively in the
scaling-up process? The effective use of existing resources is important and it was underlined that also
agencies with limited financial and human resources have extremely important contributions to make.
The important issue in establishing a better UN in-country collaboration is to …‘’put our
institutional arrogance behind…’’; no agency is more important than the other.
Agencies’ perceived need to assume ‘technical lead’ for nutrition is a sensitive area that
often creates tension. This does not have to be so. There are many examples where
agencies work complementarily and one of them is the nutrition and food security cluster
system. Leadership, however, does require capacity and accountability.
The problem of hunger and malnutrition is huge and no sector or agency alone can solve it.
Each of the agencies individually is weak but together we can achieve synergies with
amazing results.
Is there a contradiction between food security and the focus on nutrition? It is important to
understand how food security and nutrition security relate to one another in concrete situations. Food
security is a necessary condition for nutrition security and needs to be prioritized in individuals, families,
communities, different stages in the lifecycle and times of the seasonal cycle where this condition might
not be fulfilled. According to FAO, Kenya as a nation will be able to feed itself up to 2015 but will have
increasing problems to do so beyond that unless production can be increased and this also in areas that
currently do not produce. Nutrition has to be moved to a systems approach, embedding nutrition into
ecosystem and landscape debates, moving to a whole diet approach.
Should the UN system really collaborate with the business sector? How can we establish mutual
accountability requirements? It was discussed that there is no way to avoid engaging seriously with the
business sector since most food is produced and marketed by private enterprises. Hence a very open
dialogue is needed to establish roles and responsibilities of the business sector and – where necessary –
formulate regulatory frameworks. This may not always be easy and will require careful, respectful,
transparent and clear negotiations. Kenya’s SUN process is a good example in many aspects, reflecting
the official position of the UN system in the country.
There was wide agreement that in the past nutrition has NOT received the attention it needs! And this
also Not in the UN system. We have to increase our efforts to raise the profile of nutrition and its
prioritization in the UN system. These ambitions have already started with continuous new
developments, contributions and commitments, but it will take a long time to reach where we need to
go, a period of 10-20 years rather than one of 1-2 years only!
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3. Towards a harmonized approach in nutrition-sensitive
development – the case of nutrition-sensitive agriculture
The concept of ‘nutrition-sensitive programming/development’ has been introduced by the SUN
Movement in response to the need to expand the global nutrition scaling-up efforts beyond the high
impact direct nutrition interventions listed by the 2008 Lancet series often referred to as ‘nutrition
specific’ or ‘nutrition direct’. The categorization of nutrition actions as either ‘nutrition specific’ or
‘nutrition-sensitive’ has led to some confusion (mostly semantic) but it is felt that for practical
programming purposes the distinction may still be helpful. Nutrition direct interventions do have well
proven impact on specific nutrient/dietary deficiencies and nutrition-related disease conditions BUT
their impact does not normally extend beyond these specific deficiencies and conditions. For example,
Vitamin A supplementation will be effective to ensure Vitamin A intake adequacy but will not help much
in a situation where other micronutrient deficiencies or protein-calorie deficiency poses a higher risk for
malnutrition.
Nutrition-sensitive programming/development on the other hand, refers to programmatic areas which
potentially have strong nutritional impacts and these are often broad and rather non-specific. However,
such impact is NOT automatic and is not likely to happen UNLESS special efforts are made to ensure that
the desired nutritional impact is realized. Agriculture is often referred to as a typical area where positive
nutrition outcomes are usually ‘taken for granted’ but where a large body of empirical evidence shows
that this may not be the case UNLESS the agriculture development programmes are designed in a way
that they will ensure that the benefits of the programme leads to improved diet intakes in those
populations that have deficiencies in one or another aspect.
Werner Schultink, UNICEF Chief of Nutrition, emphasized in his introduction the need for a careful
analysis of the nutrition situation and agreement on both the main causes of the problem as well as
priority actions that need to be taken in order to contain the problem. This is particularly important in
the case of stunting reduction which requires a much more comprehensive approach compared to our
traditional approaches to malnutrition, which are very often vertical and mono-focal. Hence a mix of
interventions will be needed and this is the reason why we have to be serious about a multi-sectoral
approach combining both nutrition-direct and nutrition-sensitive interventions. In fact, some of the best
emerging examples of successful efforts to reduce stunting, like in Ethiopia and the Maharashtra state in
India, clearly support this position. It is also increasingly clear that in the context of stunting reduction,
the issue of improved complementary feeding stands out as a very critical issue. But the ways to
address this problem do, indeed, include many possible entry points from different sectors depending
on local conditions.
Joyce Njoro, REACH Senior Programme Officer, presented the REACH Nutrition Action Guides (NAGS),
which form part of the toolkit for the REACH Facilitators and can also be used by other non-technical
practitioners. The NAGS help to breakdown what multi-sectoral nutrition action means into concrete
terms and highlight the types of nutrition related interests carried out within the respective sectors and
any cross cutting issues. The NAGS also help to identify the linkages between sector-specific action and
opportunities for integrated action. She reminded the meeting to always keep in mind and to consult
the people that are affected by the problems of malnutrition and the ones we are aiming to support.
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She recounted the case of a poor mother in a village in Sierra Leone, who had no land, no money and no
means to reach a rural health center. How could this mother benefit from all the programmes that were
being designed around the planning tables in the capital and district headquarters?
Barbara Burlingame, FAO Deputy Director Nutrition: moderated the session on nutrition-sensitive
agriculture. Five countries shared their experience with concrete examples of approaches to nutritionsensitive agriculture: Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Furthermore, examples
from integrating nutrition in farmer and pastoral field schools were presented by the FAO Subregional
Emergency Office for Central and Eastern Africa. The presentations are available at the UNSCN website4.
Further details of these and other country case studies are documented in the report on ‘Nutrition
sensitivity of agriculture and food policies’ that is published as annex to this meeting report.
Mohamed AgBendesh, FAO Senior Nutrition Officer, Regional Office for Africa, summarized some of the
measures that have proven effective in enhancing nutrition outcomes across sector programming.
Nutrition-sensitive development
Sector (examples):
• Agriculture
• Health
• Education
• Early childhood development
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Means to improve nutrition outcomes in
different sectors (examples):
• Improve targeting
• Use conditions to stimulate participation
• Strengthen nutrition goals and actions
• Optimize women’s time
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For food and agriculture policies and development programmes in particular, the following measures
are emerging as ‘good practices’ to increase impact on nutrition outcomes (adopted from FAO 2013, Key
recommendations):
1. Increase incentives (and decrease disincentives) for sustainable production, distribution, and
consumption of diverse, nutritious and safe foods.
2. Monitor dietary consumption and access to diverse, nutritious, and safe foods.
3. Build capacity in human resources and institutions to improve nutrition through the food and
agriculture sector, supported with adequate financing.
4. Support multi-sectoral strategies to improve nutrition within national, regional, and local
government structures.
5. Include measures that protect and empower the poor and women.
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4. Launch of the UN System Network for SUN – 28 August 2013
Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of the UNSCN and Assistant Executive Director WFP, addressed the
audience: ‘’We are here to launch the UN Network for Nutrition but please take note that this is not a
new structure and it is not a new mechanism. The UN Network for Nutrition is already there and busy
engaging in supporting nutrition work at country level. The UN Network for Nutrition is a ‘cultural
revolution’. It is us committing together and find ways to overcome the weaknesses and challenges we
have identified during the last 2 days, sensing and seeking opportunities to work together. The UN
Network for Nutrition is a movement. What we need to initiate (and what we are initiating today) this
cultural revolution to find ways to address the weaknesses and challenges that we have identified during
this meeting and building on the good experiences and exciting progress that is taking place as we have
heard.
I am also turning to our friends and colleagues in governments: you are
the ones who created the United Nations as a tool to support you in
your quest for social and economic development. You should also help
to make sure that we provide the support you need in the area of
nutrition and that we do our job in a way that is effective and
appropriate and not creating confusion.
My role is also to bring to the attention of the UN heads of agencies
what has been discussed in this meeting and to request them to affirm
their commitments to the UN System Network for SUN in the ways you
have expressed would be helpful in translating our aspirations into
actions.
I am taking the commitments with my colleagues that work with me in the context of UNSCN and
REACH, that we are going to work over the next 8 weeks to present to our principles a clear cut proposal
on how we stabilize, deepen and expand REACH. I listened to the feedback we heard, I know we are
starting a rich discussion later today. But what we heard in the first day indicated the crucial role REACH
facilitators have played in helping national governments mapping out what is happening, who is doing
what, how that fits into their strategies and problems and what are the gaps that we need to support
governments with. So it is very important to use the perception of no-charity. The perception of cutting
across our narrow mandates is very important. So you have our commitment, working with Nancy we
will be presenting a proposal to our Principals in the next eight weeks.
The second commitment is that we are going to make an effort to ensure that agencies, some of them
here in the room, agencies that have programmes on the ground and also agencies that work more on
policy and research, have the opportunity to engage with the UN Nutrition Network and have the
opportunity to engage with the Standing Committee on Nutrition.
The Standing Committee on Nutrition continues to play a key role as our UN Policy reconciliation, policy
formulation forum at global level. And it is important that we establish these links as we are establishing
the ‘SCN and REACH UN Nutrition Network’. So that we can develop policies that are based on the
experience we have and the empirical evidence we are harvesting from countries, but also ensure that
those policies are consistent and coherent across the organizations.
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The third commitment is that, within the next 90 days, we will present to our principals a draft
accountability framework for us, addressing how we are mutually accountable among ourselves. And
then use this as our contribution to the larger effort to establish an accountability framework for the SUN
Movement. So it is important that we clarify this mutual accountability amongst us, the members of the
UN Nutrition Network and once we have that we have a positive contribution to make to the larger
efforts David is leading.
Finally, clearly joint programming was identified on one side as a great opportunity for us towards a
coherent and consistent way in supporting national governments; but on the other side was identified as
a constraint because we have still not identified the core role nutrition plays in the development
programs of the national governments and we are not able yet to translate this into joint programmes.
So we are going to jointly engage in feeling out this joint programming and UNDAF.
I want to give you an advice. Don’t make this, the UNDAF, an impediment with the opportunities you
have doing joint situation analysis, identifying what are the real needs, identifying what the local
authorities and the national governments require as a support; and then within our narrow mandates
each one of us brings to the table what we can bring as individual agencies to achieve that common
goal. It is very important that we are going to work with the colleagues on the UNDAF, but meanwhile
seize the opportunities you have.
I want to thank you for everything you do in your countries of assignment. I want to congratulate the UN
Nutrition Network in the countries that were represented here today. And I want you to leave the room
with a clear understanding that these commitments you have are translated at the global level by
Commitments of our Principals and you will be having the support from the leadership of our agencies as
we move forward. Thank you very much.’’
David Nabarro, the SUN Movement Coordinator, expressed his great admiration and respect to all the
government focal points and to all UN country team members present in the meeting. He encouraged all
to continue in their quest by saying that ‘’….I know from my own long experience that the job you are
doing is tremendously difficult: getting multi-stakeholder platforms to work, implementing multi-sectoral
action plans for nutrition, monitoring results, demonstrating results over time, having valid survey
measurement techniques, finding ways to bring in financial support - while getting the donors to remain
focused on nutrition for ten years or twenty years and not only 2 or 3 years! And to do all this at the
back of professional disputes, or disputes between government departments, or disputes between
different non-governmental organizations. Anybody thus working on nutrition has to be a superb
negotiator and a strategic opportunist. Somebody who has got the kind of inner strength so that when
times are bad they hold strong. Still, that is what all of you do and I see so much evidence of
achievements in your efforts. You are, indeed, the experts. I know how frustrating it can be to work with
hungry and malnourished children and women while feeling that very little attention or support is
directed towards these issues by those who have the power to improve the situation. This is what the
SUN Movement is aiming to change, by building political momentum for nutrition, and empowering
those working on the issue on a daily basis, but it will take time and you are right in the center of this
process. Those of us in the periphery, i.e. New York and Rome and Geneva, are there to listen and
support and we are accountable to you and, through you, to the government and the people in the
countries we support.
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The UN system is one of the most important sources of support to governments and other actors working
in nutrition. Because nutrition is multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral and always complicated, the UN
system has to find ways to veer its support, sliding in behind the government focal points and those who
work with them, providing the right cushion around the different sectors so that they work well together,
creating zones of comfort around the different groups so that they don’t feel the tension as they are
trying to come together, but feel enabled and empowered to be able to do so. Never has there been a
more difficult role for international actors as it is now for the UN system working on nutrition’’.
Hanns-Christoph Eiden, President BLE Germany, addressed the audience on behalf of the European
Union and the Donor Network for SUN, he expressed his gratitude for being invited to this meeting.
‘’The donor network believes that all the key partners in the SUN Movement need to be effectively
organized in order for the whole movement to move forward. What I now see happening in the UN
Network is very encouraging, indeed, since I believe the role of the UN system within the SUN Movement
is indispensable at both global and country levels. I am also happy that the meeting took time to discuss
more in detail the issue of establishing stronger linkages between agricultural development and
nutrition. I personally believe this is one of the most critical aspects of realizing the right to food security
and to nutrition security’’.
Keynote Speech, Custodia Mandlhate, WHO Representative and UN Residence Coordinator a.i.c. Kenya:
‘’My role at this junction is very small: I just want to thank you all for coming to Kenya and sharing your
experiences with ours. The UN system in Kenya stands totally committed to support the government in
their efforts to scaling-up nutrition and we are proud to have hosted the launch of the UN System
Network for Scaling Up Nutrition’’.
5. Better Together - Recommendations
The following series of recommendations represents a summary of the major conclusions and
agreements emerging from the group work, panels and plenary discussions. These were presented and
endorsed by the end of the meeting and will serve as a road-map for the further expansion and
consolidation of the UN Nutrition Network at country and global levels.
Recommendation 1: UN JOINT PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
• The UN system in-country needs to adopt a common approach and joint objectives in terms of
their support to national nutrition needs;
• The UN Network for SUN at country level should use existing UNDAF/UNDAP5 process for
strengthening joint nutrition programming;
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United Nations Development Assistance Framework/Programme
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•
•
•
The UN agencies in-country should endeavor to consistently approach and negotiate with the
government ‘as ONE’;
Within the context of the SUN Movement – both at national and global levels – to communicate
‘as ONE’ UN Network for SUN;
As far as possible, the in-country UN Network for SUN should organize joint field visits with all
partners.
Recommendation 2: UN JOINT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
• The UN Network for SUN should support national advocacy efforts jointly, speaking with one
voice;
• The UN Network for SUN should approach donors together and jointly seek to mobilize the
resources needed to implement the government-led, updated and agreed national nutrition
plan of action;
• The UN Network for SUN should demonstrate that working together across nutrition-sensitive
sectors and actions will create more resources and lead to better results;
• The UN Network for SUN should promote ‘pooled’ or ‘basket fund’ approaches to help ensure
that all critical aspects and parts of an agreed national nutrition action plan are resourced as
needed.
Recommendation 3: UN SYSTEM COORDINATION MECHANISM FOR NUTRITION
• In order to establish clear responsibilities and accountability, the UN Country Team should
appoint one agency to lead the UN Network for SUN in-country at both the level of Country
Representative/Director as well as the technical level. This responsibility may be assigned on a
rotational basis.
• The UN Network for SUN should clarify clear roles and responsibilities among the agencies at
both global and national levels. If needed, such agreements may be formalized through
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or Letters of Agreement (LoA).
• The UN Network for SUN and the IASC Food Security and Nutrition Clusters both at global and
national levels to carefully review how to link relief and rehabilitation to development (LRRD) in
the area of nutrition. Aspects of coordination, implementation and capacity development
should be addressed.
• The UN Network for SUN should expand and include all relevant UN agencies at both global and
national levels.
• The UN Network for SUN should strengthen in-country facilitation mechanisms, e.g. REACH6, to
enhance collaboration and coordination across sectors and including all key stakeholders
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REACH – ‘Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and undernutrition’ – an in-country facilitation mechanism
initiated 2008 by FAO, WHO, UNICEF and WFP, ref. www.reachpartnership...
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Recommendation 4: CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
• Recognizing that in many countries, for the UN Network for SUN to provide critical technical
assistance, recruitment and training of nutrition programming specialists will be required;
• The UN Network for SUN in-country needs to ensure a coherent response to technical support
needs expressed by governments as part of the SUN process;
• The UN Network for SUN both at country and global levels should establish, enhance and
strengthen knowledge-sharing platforms and mechanisms to facilitate exchange of ‘good
practices’ as well as tools and methodologies needed for scaling-up of nutrition actions;
• The UN Network for SUN needs to facilitate documentation as well as monitoring and evaluation
of the nutrition scaling-up process.
Recommendation 5: ACCOUNTABILITY
• The UN Network for SUN to fully adopt and adhere to the agreed SUN ‘Common Results
Framework’ at country level;
• The UN Network for SUN to establish a joint monitoring and evaluation framework based on
their in-country joint nutrition programming under UNDAF/UNDAP;
• Performance appraisals to be undertaken to assess UN Network for SUN achievements as well
as individual agency roles and responses therein;
• The UN Network for SUN in-country to regularly report to the government SUN focal point on
their progress and achievements as part of SUN accountability process.
Recommendation 6: UN LEADERSHIP IN NUTRITION
• The results and recommendations of this Meeting to be shared with all relevant UN Heads of
agencies at global, regional and country levels as soon as possible;
• Each UN agency to consider formulating a ‘policy brief’ on the UN Network for SUN to be signed
by the Head of Agency and communicated and followed up by regional and country agency
representatives.
6. Meeting Resolutions - Commitments
While endorsing the long series of recommendations formulated by the meeting, Mr. Ramiro Lopez da
Silva, speaking on behalf of Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the UN World Food
Programme, who represents the UN Network in the SUN Lead Group, made four final and specific
promises, taking the following commitments with his colleagues that work with him in the context of
UNSCN and REACH, that:
1. Consolidate and expand REACH for joint country support
2. Consolidate and expand UNSCN for policy harmonization
3. Develop accountability within UN nutrition network
4. Promote and expand joint UN programming
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Annex
Meeting agenda
th
Monday, 26 August 2013
UN agencies responsibilities for optimal operationalization of UN System Network for SUN
Time
Session
08.00-09.00
Participants Registration
09.00-09.15
Welcome by Custodia Mandlhate, WHO RC representative Kenya
Opening remarks by Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and
Assistant Executive Director WFP
09.15-09.55
Keynote speech, by Steven Allen, UNICEF Regional Director ai, and by Custodia Mandlhate, WHO
Representative Kenya.
The burden of malnutrition in Africa epidemiological trends in countries,
by Mercedes de Onis, Coordinator Growth Assessment and Surveillance WHO:
Objectives of the meeting and Introduction of participants
by Nancy Walters, Global REACH Coordinator and UN Network co-facilitator.
10.05-10.45
Why do we need a UN Network?
The need for coordinated support to countries and collaboration across the UN System.
by Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and Assistant Executive
Director WFP,
by Martin Gallagher, Policy Adviser, SUN Movement Secretariat.
by Francesco Branca, UNSCN Executive Secretary and UN Network co-facilitator.
10.45-11.00
11.00-13.00
Coffee Break
Moderated Panel Discussion: ‘Roles and responsibilities of UN system agencies in nutrition,
challenges and opportunities to strengthen UN agencies collaboration in nutrition’
13.00-14.00
14.00-15.30
Lunch
Moderated Discussion: Current (programmatic and other) collaboration actions of UN agencies at
country level with selected examples, lessons learned and good practices.
15.30-15.45
15.45-17.45
Coffee break
Roll out of UN Network at country level
Break out groups, brainstorming on Country level UN Network issues, followed by presentation in
plenary and round up discussion.
Wrap up and Conclusions
17.45-18.00
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Tuesday 27 August
Towards a harmonized approach on Nutrition-sensitive development
Time
Session
08.00-09.00
Participants Registration
09.00-09.30
Welcome and Introduction
By Francesco Branca, UNSCN Executive Secretary and UN Network co-facilitator
9.30-10.15
Nutrition-sensitive development – setting the scene:
Presentation by Werner Schultink, UNICEF Chief Nutrition Section.:
‘Lancet Series on ‘nutrition-sensitive interventions, how can they help to accelerate progress in
improving maternal and child health?’
Presentation by Joyce Njoro, REACH Senior Programme Officer
10.15-13.00
Moderated Discussion: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture
Country focal points present their country case studies on nutrition-sensitive agriculture, share
lessons learned and good practices.
13.00-14.00
14.00-15.00
15.00-15.15
15.15-17.50
17.50-18.20
18.20-18.45
by Barbara Burlingame, Deputy Nutrition Director FAO
by Mohamed Ag Bendech , Regional Advisor, FAO Africa Region:
Presentations of country approaches and results of country case studies
Lunch
Moderated panel discussion: Needs and expectations from countries towards the UN System
Network, and The way forward for optimal country support
Coffee break
Moderated Panel Discussion: ‘Approaches and actions of UN system agencies in nutritionsensitive development; complementarities and opportunities for collaboration for optimal
country support’.
Information on the second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)
Wrap up, and Conclusions
by Werner Schultink, Chief Nutrition UNICEF, and Barbara Burlingame, Deputy Nutrition Director
FAO
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Wednesday 28 August 2013
Regional launch of the UN System Network for SUN
Time
Session
08.00-09.00
9.00-10.00
Participants Registration and welcome coffee
Welcome
by Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and Assistant Executive
Director WFP
Speech from the
• SUN Movement Coordinator, David Nabarro
• Donor representative, Hanns-Christoph Eiden
Keynote speech by Representative UN in Kenya
Official launch of the UN Network in the Region, Ramiro Lopes da Silva
10.00-11.00
11.00-11.15
11.15-12.15
12.15-12.30
Moderated Panel Discussion
Complementarities and Synergies between UN agencies in supporting countries to scale up
nutrition. How UN can jointly support country scaling up on the example of Kenya.
Coffee Break
Presentation of way forward and key decisions from the meeting
Final Discussion
Vote of thanks, by Ramiro Lopes da Silva, Chair of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and
Assistant Executive Director WFP
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List of participants
1. Pushpa Acharya
Head of Nutrition and HIV Unit
Regional Bureau for Southern Africa
World Food Program (WFP)
South Africa
Email: [email protected]
2. Paulina Addy
Deputy Director
Women in Agriculture Department (WIAD)
Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
3. George Aelion
Senior Program Advisor
Global Food Security Cluster (gFSC)
World Food Program (WFP)
Email: [email protected]
4. Mohamed AgBendech
Senior Nutrition Officer
Regional Office for Africa (RAF)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Email: [email protected]
5. Brenda Akwanyi
Nutrition Sector Coordinator
IASC Nutrition Cluster
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
6. Natalie Rae Aldern
Programme Officer
Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Unit (OSZAN)
World Food Programme (WFP)
Italy
Email: [email protected]
7. Luca Alinovi
Sub-Regional Emergency Coordinator (Acting)
Sub-Regional Emergency Office for Eastern and
Central Africa (REOA)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
8. Steven Allen
Regional Director ai
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
9. Robert Allport
Country Representative
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
10. Maaike Arts
Nutrition Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Mozambique
Email: [email protected]
11. Madhavi Ashok
Deputy Representative
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
12. Daniel Balaban
Representative and Director
World Food Program (WFP)
Brazil
Email: [email protected]
13. Francesco Baldo
Somalia Food Security Cluster Co-Coordinator
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
14. Alex Bambona
Head
Nutrition and Home Economics
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and
Fisheries
Uganda
Email: [email protected]
15. Filippo di Bari
Nutrition Adviser/Head of CO Nutrition Unit
World Food Program (WFP)
Mozambique
Email: [email protected]
16. Dismas Baza
NPO MAL-NTD
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SUN & Nutrition Focal Point
World Health Program (WHO)
Burundi
Email: [email protected]
17. Syeeda Begum
Nutrition Manager
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
South Sudan
Email: [email protected]
18. Hana Bekele
Technical Officer
Accelerating Nutrition Improvements Regional
Project for East and Southern Africa
World Health Organization (WHO)
Zimbabwe
Email: [email protected]
19. Barbara Bentein
Country Officer
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Email: [email protected]
20. Nina Berettapiccoli
World Food Programme (WFP)
Italy
Email: [email protected]
21. Monique Beun
Regional Nutrition Officer
Regional Bureau for Southern Africa
World Food Program (WFP)
South Africa
Email: [email protected]
22. Jhabindra Bhandari
National REACH Facilitator
REACH
Nepal
Email: [email protected]
23. Liliane Bigayimpunzi
Head of Health Nutrition Education Section
World Food Program (WFP)
Burundi
Email: [email protected]
24. Nelly Birungi
Nutrition Specialist
United Nations Childrens Fund
Uganda
Email: [email protected]
25. Sonia Blaney
Nutrition Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Senegal
Email: [email protected]
26. Martin Bloem
Senior Nutrition Advisor
WFP`s UNAIDS Global Coordinator
World Food Programme (WFP)
Italy
Email: [email protected]
27. Satvika Chalasani
Technical Specialist
Technical Division
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Email: [email protected]
28. Sophie Cowppli-Bony
Regional Facilitator for West and Central Africa
REACH
Email: [email protected]
29. Francesco Branca
Executive Secretary
United Nations Systems Standing Committee on
Nutrition (UNSCN)
Email: [email protected]
30. Barbara Burlingame
Deputy Director
Nutrition Division (ESND)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Email: [email protected]
31. Ruth Butao
Chief Technical Advisor
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Sierra Leone
Email: [email protected]
32. Benoit Cambier
Coordination, Monitoring & Assessment Officer
Food Security
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Tanzania
Email: [email protected]
33. Anne Chele
Coordinator
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Kenya Joint Programme on Food and Nutrition
Security
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
34. Ancikaria Chigumira
Deputy Director
Ministry of Health
Zimbabwe
Email: [email protected]
35. Mercy Chikoko
Technical Officer
Accelerating Nutrition Improvements Regional
Project for Africa
World Health Organization (WHO)
Email: [email protected]
36. Kudakwashe Chimanya
Nutrition Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Zimbabwe
Email: [email protected]
37. Faraja Chiwile
Nutrition Manager
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Sierra Leone
Email: [email protected]
38. Marie-Claude Desilets
Nutrition Manager
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Burundi
Email: [email protected]
39. Souleymane Diallo
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Niger
Email: [email protected]
40. Ndiobo Diene
Technical Counselor
Ministry of Agriculture
Senegal
Email: [email protected]
41. Elisa Dominguez
Nutrition Officer
Accelerating Nutrition Improvements Regional
Project for West Africa
World Health Organization (WHO)
Email: [email protected]
42. Geoffrey Ebong
Policy and Partnership Adviser
World Food Program (WFP)
Uganda
Email: [email protected]
43. Hanns-Christoph Eiden
President
Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
Germany
Email: [email protected]
44. Sian Evans
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Mali
Email: [email protected]
45. Amadou Fofona
National REACH Facilitator
REACH
Mali
Email: [email protected]
46. Yvonne Forsen
Head of Unit, Vulnerability, Analysis and Mapping,
Nutrition and M^E
World Food Program (WFP)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
47. Dao Fousseini
Nutrition Focal Point
World Health Organization (WHO)
Burkina Faso
Email: [email protected]
48. Juliane Friedrich
Sector Expert
Nutrition/Gender Focal Point
European Commission Directorate-General for
Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO)
Email: [email protected]
49. Martin Gallagher
Policy Advisor
SUN Movement Secretariat
Office of the Special representative for Food
Security and Nutrition
Email: [email protected]
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Email: [email protected]
50. Ramana NV Gandham
Lead Health Specialist
The World Bank Africa Region
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
51. Karine Garnier
Subregional Emergency Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO REOA)
Eastern and Central Africa
Email: [email protected]
52. Diawara Aichatou Gbaguidi
Technical Officer/Nutrition
World Health Program (WHO)
Gabon
Email: [email protected]
53. Haile Gebru
Programme Officer – Nutrition
World Food Program (WFP)
South Sudan
Email: [email protected]
54. Bibi Giyose
Advisor, Food and Nutrition Security
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development
(NEPAD)
Email : [email protected]
55. Tania Goosens
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Mozambique
Email: [email protected]
56. Mark Gordon
Somalia Food Security Cluster Co-Coordinator
World Food Program (WFP)
Email: [email protected]
57. Kadidiatou Gouro
National REACH Facilitator
REACH
Niger
Email: [email protected]
58. Valerie Guarnieri
Regional Director
World Food Program (WFP)
East and Central Africa
Kenya
59. Janet Guta
Deputy Director
Nutrition Management
Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS
Office of the President and the Cabinet
Malawi
Email: [email protected]
60. Mutinta Hambayi
Project Manager & Nutrition Technical Advisor
World Food Program (WFP)/CIFF Partnership
Malawi
Email: [email protected]
61. Josephine Iziku Ippe
IASC Global Nutrition Cluster Coordinator
Switzerland
Email: [email protected]
62. Isatou Jallow
Advisor, Nutrition/HIV
World Food Programme (WFP)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
63. Benedict Jeje
Acting Managing Director
Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre
Tanzania
Email: [email protected]
64. Abdoulaye Ka
National Coordinator
Cellule de Lutte contre la Malnutrition
Senegal
Email: [email protected]
65. Edna Kalaluka
Head of Programme
World Food Program (WFP)
Zambia
Email: [email protected]
66. Titus Katembu
Project Officer
European Union Delegation to Kenya
Kenya
Email:[email protected]
67. Jeannette Kayirangwa
National REACH Facilitator
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REACH
Rwanda
Email: [email protected]
68. Gudrun B. Keding
PostDoc Research Fellow
Nutrition and Marketing Diversity Programme
Bioversity International
Email: [email protected]
69. George Kembo
Director
Food and Nutrition Council
Zimbabwe
Email: [email protected]
70. Etienne Kembou
National Professional Officer for HIV/AIDS
Focal Point for Nutrition
World Health Organization (WHO)
Cameroon
Email: [email protected]
71. Sean Kennedy
Technical Officer
International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD)
Email: [email protected]
72. Angela Kimani
Nutritionist
FAO Subregional Emergency Office for Eastern and
Central Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
73. Ferew Lemma
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Ethiopia
Email: [email protected]
74. Mohamed Cheikh Levrak
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Chad
Email: [email protected]
75. Ines Lezama
Nutritionist Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Cameroon
Email: [email protected]
76. Susan Lillicrap
Chief of Nutrition
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Sudan
Email: [email protected]
77. Bjorn Ljungqvist
Consultant
Sweden
[email protected]
78. Cornelia Loechl
Nutrition Specialist
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Email: [email protected]
79. Ramiro Lopes da Silva
Chair
United Nations Systems Standing Committee on
Nutrition (UNSCN)
Email: [email protected]
80. Lina Mahy
Technical Officer
United Nations Systems Standing Committee on
Nutrition (UNSCN)
Email: [email protected]
81. Mary Manandhar
International REACH Facilitator
REACH Bangladesh
Email: [email protected]
82. Custodia Mandlhate
WHO Representative/Kenya
World Health Organization (WHO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
83. Philip Mann
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Tanzania
Email: [email protected]
84. Paula Machungo Martins
National REACH Facilitator
REACH
Mozambique
Email: [email protected]
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85. Sicily Matu
Nutrition Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
86. Bakunzi Maureen
Assistant Commissioner
Office of the Prime Minister
Uganda
Email: [email protected]
87. Mzondwase Agnes Mgomezulu
Deputy Director
Department of Agricultural Extension Services
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Malawi
Email: [email protected]
88. Magdalena Owusu Moshi
OIC / Deputy Country Director
World Food Program (WFP)
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
89. Katim Mtambo
Director of National Food Security
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Tanzania
Email: [email protected]
90. Freddie Mubanga
Head
Public Health and Community Nutrition
National Food and Nutrition Commission
Zambia
Email: [email protected]
91. Mohammed Hafiz Muntaka
National REACH Facilitator
REACH
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
92. Piyali Mustaphi
Chief, Nutrition
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Malawi
Email: [email protected]
93. David Nabarro
United Nations Secretary-General Special
Representative for Food Security & Nutrition, Scaling
Up Nutrition Coordinator
United Nations High Level Task Force, SUN
Email: [email protected]
94. Ancilla Ndahigeze
National Consultant on Gender, VIH & Nutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Burundi
Email: [email protected]
95. Tafar Ndumiya
National Programme Officer
World Food Program (WFP)
Zimbabwe
Email: [email protected]
96. Felicia Ndung`u
Head
Home Economics Sub-Division
State Department of Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
97. Ingo Neu
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Nepal
Email: [email protected]
98. Eveline Ngwenyi
Nutritionist/Program Assistant
World Food Program (WFP)
Cameroon
Email: [email protected]
99. Joyce Njoro
REACH Senior Programme Officer
World Food Programme (WFP)
Email: [email protected]
100.Gaston Nkeshimana
Senior Programme Assistant
Health Nutrition Education Section
World Food Program (WFP)
Burundi
Email: [email protected]
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101. Stacia Nordin
Nutrition Officer (Food Security & Policy)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Malawi
Email: [email protected]
102.
Hjördis D'Agostino Ogendo
Head
Social and Environment Section
Delegation of the European Union to the Republic
of Kenya
Email: [email protected]
103. Georges Okala
Sous-Directeur Alimentation et Nutrition and SUN
Focal Point
Ministere de la Sante Publique
Cameroon
Email: [email protected]
104.Beatrice Okello
National Progamme Officer
Food and Nutrition Security
Right to Food Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Uganda
Email: [email protected]
105.Wilhelmina Okwabi
Deputy Director and Head
Nutrition Department, Family Health Division
Ghana Health Service
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
106.Allison Oman
Senior Regional Nutrition and Food Security Officer
UNHCR Regional Support HUB
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
107.Mercedes de Onis
Coordinator GRS/NHD
World Health Organization (WHO)
Email: [email protected]
108.Joyce Owigar
Programme Officer Nutrition
World Food Program (WFP)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
109.Felicidade Panguene
Programme Officer
Education, Nutrition and HIV
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Mozambique
Email: [email protected]
110.
Marc Andre Prost
Head of Nutrition
World Food Program (WFP)
Sudan
Email: [email protected]
111.Mohammad Iftekhar Rashid
National REACH Facilitator
REACH
Bangladesh
Email: [email protected]
112.Barbara Reed
Food for Peace M&E Specialist
United States Agency for International
Development (USAID)
United States of America
Email: [email protected]
113.Deo Guide Rurema
Chef de Cabinet Adjoint du Deuxième Vice-Président
et Point
Focal SUN du Gouvernement
Burundi
[email protected]
114. Deborah Saidy
Regional Deputy Director
World Food Program (WFP)
East and Central Africa
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
115. Holly Dente Sedutto
REACH Consultant
World Food Programme (WFP)
Email: [email protected]
116. Lilian Selenje
Nutrition Specialist
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
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117.Werner Schultink
Chief, Nutrition
Associate Director, Program Division
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Email: [email protected]
118.Mohamed Ajuba Sheriff
Deputy Director
Planning, Evaluation, Monitoring & Statistics
Division
Sierra Leone
Email: [email protected]
119.Ronald Sibanda
Country Representative
World Food Programme (WFP)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
120.Isabelle Nicole Da Silva-Djossa
REACH Facilitator
Burundi
Email: [email protected]
121.
Salwa Abdelraheim Sorkati
National Nutrition Director
Federal Ministry of Health
Sudan
Email: [email protected]
122.James Francis Swokiri
Extension Specialist
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
South Sudan
Email: [email protected]
123. Sophie Tadria
Food Security and Nutrition Consultant
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
124.Delilah Takawira
Nutrition Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Zimbabwe
Email: [email protected]
125.Almeida Tembe
Technical Officer
SETSAN
Mozambique
Email: [email protected]
126.Fatim Tall Thiam
National Professional Officer
Maternal Child and Reproductive Health / Nutrition
World Health Organization (WHO)
Senegal
Email: [email protected]
127. Abdulai Tinorgah
Head, Child Survival & Development
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
128. Florence Tonnoir
Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Email: [email protected]
129. Nancy Walters
Global Coordinator
REACH
Italy
Email: [email protected]
130.Terry Wefwafwa
Head Division of Nutrition
Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
Kenya
Email:[email protected]
131.Victoria Wise
International REACH Facilitator
REACH
Ghana
Email: [email protected]
132. Marzella Wüstefeld
Technical Officer
United Nations Systems Standing Committee on
Nutrition (UNSCN)
Switzerland
Email: [email protected]
133.Naoe Yakiya
Deputy Country Director
World Food Program (WFP)
Sierra Leone
Email: [email protected]
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134.Hannah Yankson
National Professional Officer
World Health Organization (WHO)
Sierra Leone
Email: [email protected]
135.Noel Marie Zagre
Regional Nutrition Adviser
Eastern and Southern Africa Regional United
Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF ESARO)
Kenya
Email: [email protected]
136. Ferima Coulibaly - Zerbo
Regional Nutrition Advisor
World Health Organization (WHO)
Burkina Faso
Email: [email protected]
137.Aaron Ananiah Zimwanza
Food and Nutrition Officer
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
Zambia
Email: [email protected]
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for Scaling Up Nutrition
This summary report endeavors to capture the key issues discussed and the recommendations
and resolutions agreed upon during the first meeting of the UN System Network for Scaling Up
Nutrition that took place in Nairobi, 26-28August 2013. For a complete account of the
meeting’s concept paper, agenda, presentations and photos, please refer to the UN Network
for SUN page on the UNSCN website www.unscn.org.
UNSCN Secretariat - c/o WHO - 20, Avenue Appia – CH 1211 Geneva 27 – Switzerland – www.unscn.org