United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) Information Meeting

ECOSOC Chamber, 7 June 2005 (10.00am - 12 noon)
   
  The Critical Role of Nutrition for Reaching the Millennium Development Goals
   
 
Chair: Ambassador Munir Akram, President, Economic and Social Council
 

Moderator: Catherine Bertini, Chair, UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN)

   
  Issue Paper
  Opening Remarks: Ambassador Munir Akram, President, Economic and Social Council - Catherine Bertini, Chair, SCN
  Video: Nutrition and the Millennium Development Goals (7 minutes)
  Brazil 's Zero Hunger Programme and Millennium Development Goal achievement -- Patrus Ananias, Minister of Social Development and the Fight Against Hunger , Brazil
 

Nutrition and Child Health -- Ann Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF

  Nutrition and Poverty Reduction -- Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant-Secretary General, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  Nutrition, Women's Health and Gender Equality -- Ambassador Kirsti Lintonen, Permanent Representative of Finland to the UN
 

Nutrition and Education -- Catherine Bertini, Chair, SCN