Regional workshop to introduce the WHO new growth curves in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Muscat, Oman, 12–14 September 2005
Objectives: to orient national nutrition, maternal and child health, senior health programme managers about the new growth curves.....to develop a regional plan of action for the implementation of the new growth curves.....
Venue & logistics

:::: Day one: Monday 12 September 2005

08:30–09:00 Registration
Session I: Inaugural session
09:00–10:00 Message from Dr Hussein A. Gezairy,
WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean
Speech of Dr Mahendra Sheth, UNICEF Regional Health Advisor for Middle East and North Africa Region
Message from World Food Programme Regional Director for the Middle East, Central Asia & Eastern Europe
Address by His Excellency Dr Ali Bin Moosa, Minister of Health, Sultanate of Oman
10:00–10:30 Coffee break
10:30–10:40 Election of officers
Session II: Keynote address
10:40–11:45 Key note address:
Impact of early growth on health over the lifecourse,
Dr Ali Jaffer, Director General of Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman
Session III: WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS), Regional experiences in growth charts & growth monitoring
11:45–12:00 Background and workshop objectives
Administrative issuse
Dr Kunal Bagchi, WHO/EMRO
12:00–12:45 New child growth standards: Why? How? What next?
Dr Mercedes de Onis, WHO/HQ
12:45–13:00 Current use of child growth charts in the Region: results of a questionnaire survey
Dr Kunal Bagchi, WHO/EMRO
13:00–13:30 Break
Session IV: Country experiences in the use of growth charts
13:30–15:45 Bahrain
Egypt
Islamic Republic of Iran
Jordan
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Sudan
United Arab Emirates
Growth monitoring in complex emergency situation - Somalia
Ms Noreen Prendiville, FASU/FAO Somalia
Noreen Prendiville Hertz is the Coordinator, Nutrition Surveillance Project FAO / Food Security Assessment Unit, Somalia. She has been involved in health, nutrition and food security programmes for almost nineteen years and currently works with FAO, managing the Nutrition Component of the Food Security Analysis Unit in Somalia. With an M.Sc. from Trinity College in Dublin, areas of special interest have included nutrition and food security information systems in countries affected by crises and has involved travel to Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone. She has also worked with UNICEF, WFP and various NGOs. Capacity development in Nutrition in Emergencies has been promoted and supported through Ms. Prendiville’s work in the development of training materials and through support to the establishment of a related course in the University of Nairobi.
15:45–16:00 Discussion

:::: Day two: Tuesday 13 September 2005

Session V: Special presentation
09:00–10:00 Growth monitoring: an instrument in the context of child survival & Millennium Development Goals,
Dr Mahendra Sheth, UNICEF/MENARO
Session VI: Country experiences in the use of growth charts (continued)
10:00–10:30 Oman
10:30–11:00 Pakistan
Palestine
11:00–11:30 Break
11:30–12:30

Qatar
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia
Yemen
Morocco
Iraq
Djibouti
12:30–13:00 Discussion
13:00–13:30 Break
Session VII: Special presentation
13:30–14:30 Use of growth charts in emergencies
Dr Pushpa Acharya, World Food Programme
Session VIII: Group work
14:30–14:45 Directions/guidance on group work
Dr Kunal Bagchi, WHO/EMRO
14:45–16:00 Group work

::: Day three: Wednesday 14 September 2005

Session IX: Group work (continued)
08:30–11:00 Group work (continued)
11:00–11:30 Break
11:30–12:30 Presentation of group work
12:30–12:45 Briefing on the meeting CD contents
Engineer Hazem Sakr, WHO/EMRO
12:45–13:00 Meeting of drafting committee
13:00–14:00 Break
Session X: Closing session
14:00–15:00
Conclusions & recommendations
15:00–15:15
Closing ceremony
Participants
WHO secretariat
Programme
Meeting documents
Photo album