Table 1 ICN2 scope and objectives

The key objectives of ICN2 were to:

 1. Review progress made since the 1992 ICN including country-level achievements in scaling up nutrition through direct nutrition interventions and nutrition-enhancing policies and programmes;

 2. Review relevant policies and institutions on agriculture, fisheries, health, trade, consumption and social protection to improve nutrition;

 3. Strengthen institutional policy coherence and coordination to improve nutrition, and mobilize resources needed to improve nutrition;

 4. Strengthen international, including inter-governmental cooperation, to enhance nutrition everywhere, especially in developing countries.

The scope of the conference was:

 - Global in perspective, but focused particularly on nutrition challenges in developing countries;

 - To address all forms of malnutrition, recognizing the nutrition transition and its consequences;

 - To seek to improve nutrition throughout the life cycle, focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable households, and on women, infants and young children in deprived, vulnerable and emergency contexts