3. Opening and Objectives of the Meeting
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Joan Matji
Regional Adviser for Nutrition
UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
Florence Lasbennes
Chief of Staff
SUN Movement Secretariat
Breda Gavinsmith
Public Health Nutritionist
SUN Movement Secretariat
4. Politics of Nutrition:
Building commitment and accelerating
progress
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Stuart Gillespie
Senior Research Staff
International Food Policy Research Institute
5. Building Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Systems
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
David Pelletier
Associate Professor of Nutrition Policy
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
6. Assessing Functional Capacities:
Areas of consideration
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Joyce Njoro
Senior Programme Officer
REACH/UN Network for SUN
8. Functional Capacity:
Coordinating Arrangements
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Ferew Lemma
Senior Advisor, Office of the Minister
Federal Ministry of Health
Ethiopia
Gladys Mugambi
SUN Focal Point and Head of Nutrition and Dietetics Unit
Ministry of Health
Kenya
10. Functional Capacity:
Building Trust and Developing Leadership
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Freddie Mubanga
SUN National Coordinator
National Food and Nutrition Commission
Zambia
Kondwani Mpeniuwawa
Deputy Director, Department of Nutrition, HIV/AIDS
Office of the President and Cabinet
Malawi
12. Functional Capacity:
Transparent Accountability Mechanisms
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Maureen Tumusiime Bakunzi
Assistant Commissioner of Policy Implementation and Coordination
Office of the Prime Minister
Uganda
14. Functional Capacity:
Knowledge Sharing
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
George Kembo
Director of National Food and Nutrition Council
Ministry of Health
Zimbabwe
Sarah Mshiu
Economist
Office of the Prime Minister
Tanzania
16. Bringing Country Perspectives Together
On Functional Capacity
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Joyce Njoro
Senior Programme Officer
REACH/UN Network for SUN
18. Panel Discussion: Effective Modalities of
Support for Challenges
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Charlotte Dufour
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Nigel Nicholson
Nutrition Advisory Service to the European Commission
Willian Chilufya
Civil Society Alliances, Zambia
Symphorosa Oundo
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
20. Recommendations and Next Steps
Building Functional Capacities
for Scaling Up Nutrition
Joan Matji
Regional Adviser for Nutrition
UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office
Florence Lasbennes
Chief of Staff
SUN Movement Secretariat