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June

Rethinking Deworming Seminar
"Rethinking Deworming: New Reasons to focus on School-Based Deworming" on June 29, 2011, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm at the World Bank to be held in room J1-050 in the J Building of the World Bank, located at 701 18th Street, NW in Washington DC.

The seminar, co-chaired by Elizabeth King, World Bank Director of Education, and Ritva Reinikka, World Bank Director, Human Development Africa Region, will highlight promising research, interventions and resources to help countries deworm their children.

If you are interested in attending the seminar, click here to register. If you can not attend in person, you will be able to participate virtually through the webcast of the event. Links to the webcast and other event information are available at the event webpage.
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May

13th ANNUAL GLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FORUM

The Global Child Nutrition Forum is an initiative conducted annually to assist leaders from developing and transitional countries with planning and implementing sustainable school feeding programs. To date, over 200 leaders from over 83 countries have participated in the Global Forum. The Forum unites leaders for five days of intensive training, technical assistance and planning to help countries establish sustainable school feeding programs. 

The 13th Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum, hosted by the Government of Kenya and co-sponsored by Global Child Nutrition Forum and Partnership for Chid Development, will be held at the Hilton Hotel from 3rd May to 6th May 2011.

The key theme of the 2011 Forum will be linking agriculture development to school feeding to achieve long-term food and nutrition security with resulting country self-sufficiency. This high level Global Forum, hosted by the Government of Kenya, will bring together a broad range of multi-sectoral experts from local, regional and international settings; in total over 140 delegates are expected to attend. These will include high level government officials from Ministries of Agriculture, Education and Health, and key international development partners.

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