Procuring supplies for children
Nutrion suppliers' meeting October 2009
"Ensuring access to quality nutrition suppliers fit-for-purpose for children"
UNICEF Supply Division welcomed participants to the UNICEF Nutrition Suppliers Meeting on 5-6 October 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Invited partners included staff from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Clinton Foundation (CHAI) and the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) – who shared information on new initiatives in the nutrition area including the WFP’s initiative in development of better complementary foods. Technical and commercial information and feedback, relevant to upcoming UNICEF tenders in 2009/2010, was also presented.
The consultation covered information sharing in several specific areas related to the Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition and Moderate Acute Malnutrition, development of QA standards for therapeutic foods for children as well as procurement of anthropometric equipment.
The agenda was as follows:
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 2009
Morning
09:30 Welcome and opening remarks – Hanne Bak Pedersen, Deputy Director Programme, UNICEF Supply Division
09:50 Overview of UNICEF assisted Nutrition Programme - Flora Sibanda-Mulder, Senior Adviser Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, USA
10:20 Management of under nutrition in a crisis situations – Chantal Gegout, Nutrition Specialist, WHO Geneva, Switzerland
11:00 Anthropometry Tools and Use – Robert Johnston, Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Regional office for West and Central Africa, Dakar, Senegal
11:20 Micronutrients Global progress, technical updates, challenges for micronutrient programming – Nita Dalmiya, Micronutrients Specialist, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, USA
12:00 Community Based Management of SAM – Tanya Khara, Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, USA
Afternoon
13:40 Prevention and Treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition – Flora Sibanda-Mulder, Adviser Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, USA
14:20 Lipid-based Foods in Food Aid Flows – John Wood, Food Technologist (Consultant), WFP Rome, Italy
14:50 Developing Standards for Foods for Malnourished Children – Selma Doyran, Chief AGNC, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, Codex Alimentarius, FAO, Rome, Italy
15:20 Improvement of Fortified Blended Foods CSB Products and Unimix – John Wood, WFP
15:40 The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes – Tanya Khara, Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Headquarters, New York, USA
16:30 Closure – Francisco Blanco
TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2009
Morning
09:30 Procurement Process for Pharmaceuticals and Nutrition items - Francisco Blanco, Chief HIV/AIDS & Health Centre, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
10:00 Issues related to procurement of nutrition products – Jan Komrska, Contracts Officer, EMN Unit, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
11:15 Technical evaluation of nutrition products – Giorgia Paiella, Technical Specialist, EMN Unit, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
11:45 UNICEF Quality Assurance in the procurement of Therapeutic Food – Peter Svarrer Jakobsen, Quality Assurance Specialist, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
12:15 Packing instruction for warehouse deliveries – Susanne Fraisse, Warehouse Manager, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
Afternoon
14:15 Quality Assurance for Anthropometric Equipment – Maria S Beade, Quality Assurance Assistant, Quality Assurance Unit (non-pharma), UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
14:45 Building a Specialized Medical Food Supply Chain – Susan Shepherd, Coordinator for Nutrition Working Group at MSF and Odile Caron – Quality Assurance Medical Food Unit, MSF Logistique, France
15:15 RUTF supply chain evaluation and forecasting – Paul Molinaro, ART coordinator, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark
16:15 Closure – Francisco Blanco
