This document provides the agenda for a conference on June 10, 2013 at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C. titled "Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition". The agenda includes an opening plenary session with keynote speakers from USAID and Ireland. Four panel discussions will take place on global and country-level perspectives on nutrition. Breakout group sessions will discuss capacity development, nutrition interventions, nutrition-sensitive development, and civil society's role. Closing remarks will review takeaways and look forward. A reception will follow.

1. Agenda - Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
The Mead Center for American Theater - 1101 6th St SW - Washington, DC
June 10, 2013
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast and Registration
8:30 – 9:00 Opening Plenary: Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
Master of Ceremonies: Roger Thurow, Author, The Last Hunger Season, Senior Fellow, Global
Agriculture and Food Policy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and ONE Fellow
 Welcome: David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World and Joe Cahalan, CEO, Concern
Worldwide 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
 Video Message: David Nabarro, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Food
Security and Nutrition and Coordinator of the SUN Movement
9:30 – 10:20 Panel Discussion: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead to the Next 1,000 Days—Global
Perspectives
Moderator - Lucy Sullivan, Executive Director 1000 Days Partnership
 Robert Black, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child
Nutrition
 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
 CEOs Sam Worthington, InterAction; John Coonrod, The Hunger Project; Anne Goddard,
ChildFund International; Kent Hill, World Vision
11:10 – 12:00 Panel Discussion: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead to the Next 1,000 Days: Country-
level Perspectives
Moderator – Kathy Spahn, CEO, Helen Keller International
 Kaosar Afsana, BRAC, Bangladesh
 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
Moderators – Tom Arnold, Marie Pierre Allié, SUN Lead Group
 Panel Discussion: Perspectives from Zambia

2. Agenda - Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
The Mead Center for American Theater - 1101 6th St SW - Washington, DC
June 10, 2013
o William Chilufya, Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance
o Cassim Masi, National Food and Nutrition Commission
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 Ivan Mendoza, SESAN, Guatemala
o Carmel Dolan, Emergency Nutrition Network Study
o Nan Dale, ACF, Campaign on Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition
(CMAM)
o Souley Harouna, President, Niger Health Forum (FORSANI)
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, Helen Keller International
o Facilitator – Paul Amuna, African Nutrition Society, University of Greenwich
o Rapporteur – Anu Narayan, Helen Keller International
 Workshop 2: Best Practices – Nutrition-Specific Interventions
o Facilitator – Karin Lapping, Save the Children
o Facilitator – Francis Zotor, African Nutrition Society
o Rapporteur – Sandra Remancus, FHI 360
 Workshop 3: Best Practices – Nutrition-Sensitive Development
o Facilitator – Charlotte Dufour, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
o Rapporteur – Anna Herforth, Independent Consultant
 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, World Vision
5:00 – 5:15 Breakout Rapporteurs and Facilitators collect workshop outcomes
 Coffee break for other participants
5:15 – 5:45 Breakout Group Readouts
Moderator – Tom Arnold, SUN Lead Group
 Reports from each breakout session
5:45 – 6:15 Session Takeaways, Concluding Remarks and Looking Forward
 Layla McCay, GAIN; Neil Watkins, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; David Beckmann,
Bread for the World; Joe Cahalan, Concern Worldwide-US
6:30 – 8:00 Reception for all Participants

3. Agenda - Sustaining Political Commitments to Scaling Up Nutrition
The Mead Center for American Theater - 1101 6th St SW - Washington, DC
June 10, 2013
 Remarks by Roger Thurow, District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray, H.E. Elkanah Odembo,
Ambassador, Republic of Kenya, and Ambassador Tony Hall, Alliance to End Hunger