ACC/SCN Annual Meeting
This year the annual ACC/SCN meeting is taking place at the World Bank, Washington, DC, USA from April 10th to 15th. The meeting will be jointly hosted by UNICEF and the World Bank. The overall theme is "Nutrition Stocktaking and the Challenges for the 21st Century".
Among other items the agenda includes:
- Symposium on the World Nutrition Situation: Challenges and Opportunities for the UN in the Next Century.
- Working Group on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding
- Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies
- Working Group on Household Food Security
All NGOs and those active in nutrition in developing countries are invited to attend.
THERE IS NO CHARGE.
(full details available at the web site www.unsystem.org/accscn/) The main activity takes place in the Working Groups. For an agenda, registration form etc., contact the secretariate accscn at accscn@who.ch
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ACC/SCN Annual Meeting. Field Exchange 9, March 2000. p8. www.ennonline.net/fex/9/acc
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