1. health and fitness
2. nutrition

AIDF Food Security Summit: Asia 2014
8-9 October 2014, Jakarta, Indonesia
Nutrition
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DAY 1: Wednesday 8 October 2014
08.30
Registration and coffee
09.00
Welcome
09.05
Keynote Address: H.E. Mohammed Nasim, Honourable Minister of Health and
Family Welfare of Bangladesh
FINANCING OF NUTRITION SECURITY
09.15
Panel: Innovative Financing of Food Security Programs
 Addressing domestic and international funding for nutrition programmes and research
and promoting new investment in the sector
 Food prices in Asia
 New types of funding mechanisms: blended funding, results-based financing, crowd
sourcing
 Food voucher systems – Cash transfer programmes (conditionals and unconditional):
WFP food cards and food vouchers
 Public and private financing of food security projects
 Establish and strengthen PPPs / new alignments
 Promoting foreign and regional investment in the food security/ nutrition sector
10.15
Presentation: Measurement of Food Security
Defining and measuring malnutrition, including hidden hunger and over nutrition
How to measure food security specific to the country settings?
10.30
Refreshment Break
LONG-TERM FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
11.00
Panel: Latest Trends in Nutrition Programmes & Policy
 Regional vs. international programmes: update on AFC’s international 10-year
Nutrition Campaign
 Bridging the gap between national policy and local implementation
 Evidence informed policy: ensure health and nutrition promotion reflects the latest
science
 Social and cultural aspects of nutrition and what this means for nutrition programmes
 Increase cross industry research collaboration and coordination of initiatives
 Improve political advocacy and educate the market on the real nutrition issues
 Urbanisation and shift in consumption patterns and how this affects programming for
nutrition
Dr Klaus Kraemer, Director, Sight and Life
Dr. Regina Moench-Pfanner, Director Singapore Office, GAIN (Global Alliance for
Improved Nutrition)
Dr. Mario Capazana, Director of Food and Nutrition Institute, DOST, Philippines - tbc
Child Nutrition
11.40
Discussing the Results of the South East Asian Nutrition Survey
(SEANUTS)
 Insights into dietary intakes, food habits, nutritional status, growth, body composition,
physical activity and cognitive development of infants and children from 0.5 to 12-years
 Comparing results of four countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
 How can data help to assess current health and nutrition programmes and start new
ones?
Dr. Panam Parikh, FrieslandCampina
Dr. Minarto, President, Indonesian Nutritionist Association
12.20
Panel: Programmes to Fight Child Malnutrition, End Hunger and
Stunting
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Latest innovations to improve child health
Pre-natal nutrition support: Iron-folate supplements during pregnancy
Update on 1000-days initiatives
Initiatives for growing children
Jay Mark Mijares, HAE and Advocacy Officer, World Vision Foundation (Thailand)
Dr Klaus Kraemer, Director, Sight and Life
13.00
Networking lunch
Micronutrients & Food Fortification
14.00
Presentation: Micronutrient Status of the Indonesian Population
 Analyzing the data result from the recent Indonesia Health Basic Research (Riskesdas)
2013 on the anemia status of all age groups and Iodine salt levels of the households
 Study on micronutrients status of Indonesian children under five years of age looking at
Serum vitamin A level and Serum zinc status
Dr Marjani Susilowat Herman, Indonesian Health Research Association (APKESI)
14.15
Panel: Achieving a Balanced Nutrition for All Ages
A critical component of food security is diet quality. Even people with access to sufficient
amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, increasing their risk for
health consequences.
 Need of a balanced nutrition portfolio
 Educating the governments, health professionals, policymakers and the public about the
benefits of supplementation
 Low cost of micronutrients
 Business opportunity for branded products
 Initiatives to improve diets and wellbeing at all ages
Bruno Kistner, Glanbia
Nils Grede, Deputy Country Director, WFP Indonesia – tbc
Prof.(Em) Soekirman, Nutrition Policy, Department of Community Nutrition, IPB, Bogor/
Director, Indonesian Foundation for Food Fortification (KFI)
15.30
Refreshment Break
16.00
Presentation: Latest Innovations in Fortified Stable Foods
 Fortification of flour
 Fortified cooking oil
 Golden rice and other fortified rice
16.15
Panel: Trends in Home Fortification/ Food Supplements
 Micronutrient powders (MNP)
 Complementary food supplements (CFS): Lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) and
powdered complementary food supplements
 Home fortification strategies in national nutrition policies
 Discussion of different distribution methods
 Best practice for monitoring and evaluation plan for HF interventions
 How to overcome adherence challenges?
Dr Elvina Karyadi, Country Director for Indonesia, Micronutrient Initiative
Home Fortification Technical Advisory Group (HF-TAG)
16.45
Panel: Fort Fortification in Asia: Experiences, Challenges and Lessons
Learnt
 Social acceptance of fortified food (e.g. distinguish it from GM, considering cultural and
traditional points when designing fortification programme)
 Discussing standards and policies
 Monitoring and implementation issues: producing adequately fortified products
 Measuring the impact of fortification programmes
 Collaboration between fortification programmes and research
Dr Elvina Karyadi, Country Director for Indonesia, Micronutrient Initiative
Prof.(Em) Soekirman, Nutrition Policy, Department of Community Nutrition, IPB, Bogor/
Director, Indonesian Foundation for Food Fortification (KFI)
17:30
Drinks Reception
Joint drinks reception for the entire Food Security audience, including participants of the
Agriculture event.
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DAY 2: Thursday 9 October 2014
08:30
Registration and coffee
09:00
Welcome
09:05
Keynote Address
09.15
Panel: Optimising Infrastructure and Distribution
 Food storage and safety: ensure food remains safe until it reaches the end consumer
 Distribution models: community engagement and bottom-up approach
 Address value-chain for nutrition: entice the private sector to invest in nutritious food
 Reducing Food Waste
 Discuss with farmers and millers what kind of food should be produced: what does the
market need and what quality?
Corazon Juliano-Soliman, Secretary/ Minister, Department of Social Welfare and
Development, Philippines
Sreenivas Narayanan, Group Managing Director, Asia Society for Social Improvement &
Sustainable Transformation ASSIST
EMERGENCY FOOD SECURITY
10:10
Panel: Improving Nutrition Resilience and Identifying Gaps
 Emergency vs. long term/ development Food Security programmes
 Who looks after the transitional period between emergency and long-term programmes?
 Identifying gaps and vulnerable groups
 Choosing the right product for the right audience
Jay Mark Mijares, HAE and Advocacy Officer, World Vision Foundation (Thailand)
Nils Grede, Deputy Country Director, WFP Indonesia - tbc
Dr. Sri Kusuma Hartani, Health & Nutrition Program Manager, Mercy Corps
10.30
Refreshment Break
11.00
Panel: Ensuring Food Security during Emergency Situations
 Nutrition guidelines and standards for priority areas: considering the balance of benefits
and harms, taking into account costs, values and preferences
 Nutrition interventions and research: wasting, infant and young children feeding in
emergencies, special needs of the elderly, monitoring nutritional status
 Latest update on RUTFs (ready to use therapeutic food)
 Logistics: managing food aid and disaster relief in crisis situations
 Addressing issues of sanitation and hygiene (chlorine disinfection)
Kuldip Nar, Managing Director, Aidmatrix India
12.00
Panel: Community Engagement & Capacity Building
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Creating prosperity and building awareness for nutrition issues
Empower marginalized groups (e.g. woman, families)
Enable entrepreneurship (e.g. home gardens, micro franchising)
Importance of leadership skills on community level and on top level to be able to
influence governments and funders
 Improving leadership development in the region
 How do regional initiatives find it working with larger organisations and how could this
relationship be improved?
Dr. Suprayoga Hadi, Deputy Minister for the Development for Resources Development,
Ministry for the Development of Disadvantaged Regions
Prateek Gupta, Country Director Indonesia, Helen Keller International
Ildiko Modla-Szalai, NeeDeed Foundation
13.00
Networking Lunch
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
14.00
Interactive Round Table Discussions & Workshops
(including refreshments)
1. Collaboration of nutrition programmes: How to collaborate more effectively on many
levels? Sharing learning and experiences with projects in certain regions.
2. Creating an effective cost-benefit analysis: how to choose the right programme?
3. Child nutrition
4. Financing models for nutrition programmes
5. Emergency food security
6. Measuring Food Security specific to one country: how to define the right criteria and
KPIs
7. Food fortification
8. Governance across the nutrition sector
9. Procurement workshop: supplier management, supply chain risks, procurement best practice
The audience will be asked to register their interest in advance as well as supply themes
and questions they wish to discuss during this session.
15.15
Presentations: Outcomes from Round Tables Discussions
Short presentations by the roundtable moderators on the questions and outcomes of each
round table session.
15.35
Refreshment break
- Joint sessions with Agriculture audience:
16.00
Panel: Managing the Risk of Harvest Loss and Building Resilience for
Food Security
 How to increase resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supplies?
 Impact of climate change on crop yields, livestock, irrigation and agricultural capital
 Managing climate variability and risk with the help of warning systems, forecasts and
insurances
 Mitigating post-harvest losses through improved handling and storage solutions
Amin Uddin, Program Manager, Technical Expert – Agriculture, Helen Keller International
Adelina Kamal, Head of the Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Division,
ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) (tbc)
16.45
Panel: Nutrition-Smart Food Production: Returning to the root purpose
of agriculture
The Copenhagen Consensus has twice in the past years identified that poor nutrition
caused by a lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet is the greatest challenge facing
humankind.
 How can agricultural systems serve again their fundamental purpose of nourishing
people and helping the fight against hidden hunger
 What are some of the challenges around product attributes that affect consumer
acceptance?
 How does hybrid rice compare to fortified rice?
 Agriculture must become nutrition-smart, nutrition-sensitivity is not enough
 How can the industry optimize to provide the greatest amount of nutrients per square foot
that can be produced sustainably?
 Solutions for increasing productivity levels of nutritious foods such as lentils, pulses,
vegetables
 Best practice for making wheat, rice and maize more nutritious
17.30
End of Summit
* The last 15min of each panel discussion will be dedicated to an open Q&A session
* All nutrition sessions will run parallel to the sessions of the agriculture stream. All participants are
allowed to choose any sessions relevant to their projects and interests.