PUBLIC HEALTH

NUTRITION
SUBMITTED BY: ISHITA GUPTA
ROLL NO: 1025/21
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA
NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES

• FAO
• WHO
• UNICEF
 FAO: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION
• The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United
Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
• Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular
access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member
states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play
a part in ending hunger.
FAO: OBJECTIVES

• Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition

• Make agriculture, forestry, and fisheries more productive
and sustainable
• Reduce rural poverty
• Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
• Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises4

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 FAO: GLOBAL PLANS OF ACTION
• The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture negotiates global plans of
action that seek to create an efficient system for the conservation and sustainable use of
genetic resources for food and agriculture. Global plans of action are outcomes of a
country-driven process of reporting, analysis and discussion and are intended as
comprehensive frameworks to guide and catalyse action at community, national, regional and
international levels through better cooperation, coordination and planning and by
strengthening capacities.
• They contain sets of recommendations and priority activities that respond to the needs and
priorities identified in global assessments: the reports on the state of the world’s genetic
resources for food and agriculture.
• Global plans of action are adopted by the relevant Governing Bodies of FAO, i.e. the FAO
Conference or the FAO Council, or by special intergovernmental conferences convened at
their request. The Commission oversees, monitors and evaluates the implementation of the
global plans of action.
WHO: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
• WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and
people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so
everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.
• WHO leads global efforts to expand universal health coverage. We direct and
coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies. And we promote
healthier lives – from pregnancy care through old age. Our Triple Billion
targets outline an ambitious plan for the world to achieve good health for all,
using science-based policies and programmes.
WHO: OBJECTIVES

• To coordinate and oversee the procurement of health

services.
• Raise awareness of the extent of illness, suffering and death
among mothers and children, and its impact on health as
well as social and economic development.
• To create an interface between the developed and
developing nations when
• pertaining to health issues.
 FAO: ACTION PLAN

• The WHO Global NCD Action Plan 2013-2020 follows on from commitments made by
Heads of State and Government in the United Nations Political Declaration on the
Prevention and Control of NCDs (resolution A/RES/66/2), recognizing the primary role and
responsibility of Governments in responding to the challenge of NCDs and the important
role of international cooperation to support national efforts.
• WHO is issuing the COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for 2021
and accompanying documents as a package aimed at guiding the coordinated action that
we must take at national, regional, and global levels to overcome the ongoing challenges
in the response to COVID-19, address inequities, and plot a course out of the pandemic.
• Over the past year, much has been achieved by national authorities and communities with
the support of WHO, donors and partners, and an unprecedented effort by the scientific
community and the private sector.
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• The Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan 2021 (SPRP2021) builds on what we have
learned about the virus and our collective response over the course of 2020, and
translates that knowledge into strategic actions. This plan builds on achievements and also
focuses on the new challenges, to mitigate, for example, risks related to new variants. The
plan also considers the road we need to travel towards the safe, equitable and effective
delivery of diagnostics and vaccines as part of the overall strategy to successfully tackle
the COVID-19 pandemic
• As leader of the global incident management support team (IMST) structure, the UN Crisis
Management Team (UNCMT), and as a founder of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)
Accelerator, WHO harnesses the world’s technical and operational expertise to translate
knowledge into coordinated action.
 UNICEF: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
• UNICEF works in the world’s toughest places to reach the most disadvantaged children and
adolescents – and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere. Across more than 190 countries
and territories, we do whatever it takes to help children survive, thrive and fulfil their potential,
from early childhood through adolescence.
• The world’s largest provider of vaccines, we support child health and nutrition, safe water and
sanitation, quality education and skill building, HIV prevention and treatment for mothers and
babies, and the protection of children and adolescents from violence and exploitation.
• Before, during and after humanitarian emergencies, UNICEF is on the ground, bringing lifesaving
help and hope to children and families. Non-political and impartial, we are never neutral when it
comes to defending children’s rights and safeguarding their lives and futures.
• And we never give up.
• To create a world where the rights of every child are realized.
UNICEF: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
 UNICEF: OBJECTIVES
• End poverty in all its forms, everywhere
• End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages.
• Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all.
• Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
• Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
• Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
• Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent
work for all.
• Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster
innovation.
• Reduce inequality within and among countries.
• Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
• Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
 UNICEF: ACTION PLAN
• Gender equality is essential to realizing the mandate of UNICEF to uphold the rights of all children. The
UNICEF Gender Act on Plan (GAP), 2022–2025, operationalizes the UNICEF Gender Policy, 2021–2030, by
specifying how UNICEF will promote gender equality across its programmes and workplaces. It affirms that
promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the responsibility of everyone,
regardless of organizational role. The GAP elaborates the steps required to accelerate progress on gender
equality across the five Goal Areas of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022–2025, as well as within institutional
systems and processes, with clear indicators and monitoring mechanisms to track change. The GAP builds on
an increasing knowledge base on gender equality, including current evidence regarding the gendered effects
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It is grounded in the human rights principles of
non-discrimination and equality and articulates the role of UNICEF, as a collaborator with Governments and
other partners, in supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recognizing that gender
discrimination has lifelong and intergenerational impacts, the GAP advances gender equality throughout the
life course. At the same time, it promotes targeted actions to advance the leadership and well-being of
adolescent girls, as girls are both disproportionately affected by gender inequality and have tremendous
potential to be leaders for change. This dual-track approach goes beyond responding to the manifestations of
gender inequality to tackle its underlying drivers, including by engaging boys and men as allies; advancing
upstream financing and policy solutions; and supporting girls’ agency and voice.