Organizers: UN-Nutrition.
Background:
Good nutrition is a maker and a marker of the SDGs. Ensuring impact on the SDGs requires integrating nutrition across all relevant sectors for addressing malnutrition in all its forms while tacking underlying causes, including poverty and hunger.
The inaugural session of the Rome Nutrition Week will advocate for nutrition integration and the power of acting together for optimizing efficiencies through shared understanding of issues and solutions, and policy coherence.
Expected results:
- Greater awareness on the power of acting as one for optimizing efficiencies for greater nutrition impact.
- Greater awareness on the importance of the Global Alliance against Hunger and Policy as a mechanism for enhancing policy coherence towards nutrition impact.
- Identification of the best entry points, according to the contexts, for nutrition integration into sectoral policies and the fundamental need for coordination and coherence to ensure it.
- A collection of insights and recommendations from country players for an effective joint UN support that responds to country needs and enhances nutrition integration and impact.
Event language: English, with French and Spanish interpretation
Tentative agenda:
11:00 Welcome address by the Moderator, Anna Horner, UN-Nutrition Senior Coordinator
11:05 Setting the scene: the power of being ONE for nutrition by Najat Mokhtar, IAEA DDG and UN-Nutrition Chair
11:10 A dialogue between 3 countries: Honduras, DRC (tbc) and Lesotho (tbc)
11:25 A conversation with key global actors: Featuring: Brieuc Pont, N4G Paris Secretary General; Afshan Khan, SUN Coordinator; Ambassador Carla B. Carneiro, Brazil Permanent Representative speaking on the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty; and Ambassador Nosipho Nausca-Jean Jezile, South Africa Permanent Representative and Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
11:55. Closing remarks by Peter Cleary, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland to RBAs.