Governance

Governance
©WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua

Global level

UN-Nutrition is governed by a steering committee at the global level, which is led by a chair. The UN-Nutrition Chair is a senior leader from one of the Member Agencies and serves a 2-year rotational term.
At present, Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist at FAO, is serving as the ad interim UN-Nutrition Chair.

Naoko Yamamoto

Naoko Yamamoto

UN-Nutrition chair, 2021-2022

Assistant director-general for universal health coverage/healthier populations

Who

The steering committee is comprised of the nutrition leads of 7 agencies, including the 5 founding members: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); the World Food Programme (WFP); and the World Health Organization (WHO). The other two agencies represented on the committee serve on a 2-year rotational basis. At present, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are rotational members. UNEP will soon be ending its term, providing an opportunity for a different UN agency to become the second rotational member on the steering committee.


 

Meet the steering committee members

Lynnette Neufeld - © FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico

Lynnette Neufeld

FAO
Cornelia Loechl

Cornelia Loechl

IAEA
Joyce Njoro

Joyce Njoro

IFAD
Marina Bortoletti

Marina Bortoletti

UNEP
Víctor Aguayo

Víctor Aguayo

UNICEF
Abigail Perry

Abigail Perry

WFP
Franceso Branca

Francesco Branca

WHO
Stineke Oenema

Stineke Oenema

Executive Secretary UN‑Nutrition Secretariat

Country level

UN country teams jointly agree on their preferred way of collaborating under the UN-Nutrition umbrella. This applies to the composition, stewardship and working modalities of UN-Nutrition, taking into consideration the local context and priorities.

As a joint initiative between several UN agencies, UN-Nutrition creates opportunities to link long-term development and emergency nutrition interventions and build the resilience of vulnerable communities. 
UN-Nutrition can encourage agencies to pool their resources while also operationalizing the nexus between humanitarian, development and peace interventions to target underlying and institutional factors that lead
to malnutrition.

DR CATHERINE SOZI
United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Ethiopia