1. Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
June 10, 2013
The Mead Center - 1101 6th St SW - Washington, DC
8.00 – 8.30 Breakfast and Registration
8.30 – 9.30 Opening Plenary: Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
Master of Ceremonies: Roger Thurow
Welcome: David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World and Joe Cahalan, CEO, Concern US
Key Note Address: Raj Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Key Note Address: Joe Costello, Minister of State, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
Ireland
9.30 – 10.20 Panel Discussion: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead to the Next 1,000 Days—Global
Perspectives
Facilitator - Lucy Sullivan, Executive Director 1000 Days Partnership
Robert Black, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child
Nutrition author
Keith Hansen, Acting Vice President and Network Head, Human Development, The World Bank
Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head 2020 Vision Initiative and Chief of Staff, International Food Policy
Research Institute
Martin Bloem, Senior Nutrition Advisor, World Food Programme
10.20 – 10.50 Second Morning Plenary
Introduction: Carolyn Miles, CEO, Save the Children
Key Note Address: Wilbald Lorri, Office of President Jakaya Kikwete, Republic of Tanzania
Key Note Address: Philip Barton, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the United Kingdom
10.50 – 11.10 InterAction Nutrition Pledge
Sam Worthington, CEO, InterAction
11.10 – 12.00 Panel Discussion: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead to the Next 1,000 Days—Country-
level Perspectives
Facilitator – Kathy Spahn, CEO, Helen Keller International
Kaosar Afsana, BRAC, Bangladesh
Nina Sardjunani, National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia (invited)
Rose Ndolo, National Nutrition Coordinator, World Vision International, Kenya
Joyce Ngegba, Partnership for Nutrition in Tanzania, PANITA, Tanzania
Juan Carlos Paiz, Presidential Commissioner for Competitiveness, Investment and Millennium
Challenge Corporation, Guatemala
12.00– 1.00 Lunch
1.15 – 3.15 Afternoon Plenary: Taking SUN to Scale
Facilitator – Tom Arnold, SUN Lead Group
Panel Discussion: Perspectives from Zambia
o William Chilufya, Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance
o Cassim Masi, National Food and Nutrition Commission
2. Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
June 10, 2013
The Mead Center - 1101 6th St SW - Washington, DC
o Highvie H. Hamududu, Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Committee on Estimates
Panel Discussion: SUN Country Experiences on Scaling Up
o Rigobert Oladiran Ladikpo, Professional Association of Vegetable Oil Industries for the
West Africa Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU/ UEMOA )
o Dr. Ivan Mendoza, SESAN, Guatemala
o Emergency Nutrition Network Study, ACF Campaign on Community-based Management
of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
3.15 – 3.30 Mid-Afternoon Break (Instructions Given About Breakout Group Sessions)
3.30 – 5.00 Breakout Sessions
Workshop 1: Capacity Development in Nutrition
o Facilitator – Manisha Tharaney, SPRING
o Facilitator – Paul Amuna, African Nutrition Society, University of Greenwich
o Rapporteur – Anu Narayan, SPRING
Workshop 2: Best Practices – Nutrition-Specific Interventions
o Facilitator – Karin Lapping, Save the Children
o Facilitator – Francis Zotor, African Nutrition Society
o Rapporteur – Karen Leban, CORE (suggested)
Workshop 3: Best Practices – Nutrition-Sensitive Development
o Facilitator – Charlotte Dufour
o Sharing SUN Country Experiences -
o Rapporteur – Anna Herforth
Workshop 4: Civil Society’s Role in Advocacy and Monitoring Progress at National and Global
Levels
o Facilitator – Connell Foley, Concern Worldwide
o Facilitator – Buba Khan, ActionAid, the Gambia
o Rapporteur – Lisa Bos, WorldVision-US (suggested)
5.00 – 5.15 Breakout Rapporteurs and Facilitators collect workshop outcomes
Coffee break for other participants
5.15 – 5.45 Breakout Group Readouts
Facilitator – Tom Arnold, SUN Lead Group
Reports from each breakout session
5.45 – 6.15 Session Takeaways, Concluding Remarks and Looking Forward
Layla McCay, GAIN; Josh Lozman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; David Beckmann
6.15 – 8.00 Reception for all participants
Remarks by Mayor Vincent Gray, District of Columbia, 7.00
