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Global Leadership for Nutrition: The UN’s Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) and its Contributions

Published on 15 July 2010

The author presents a history of the UN’s Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN), which has been written as a contribution to the continuing debate on the international nutrition development landscape. The experiences of the SCN have much to contribute to understanding how to achieve better harmonisation and coherence across UN agencies and their partners.

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Richard Longhurst

Research Associate

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IDS
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Longhurst, R
journal
IDS Research Summary of IDS Discussion Paper, issue 390

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