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[email protected]. EN Discussion Paper Water and Nutrition Harmonizing Actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade UNSCN February 2020 United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition Acknowledgements This report was written by Claudia Ringler (IFPRI) and Paulo Dias (FAO), with substantive inputs from Claire Chase (World Bank), Jowel Choufani (George Washington University), Jan Lundqvist (SIWI), Jennie Barron (SLU), Chris Dickens, Javier Mateo-Sagasta and Matthew McCartney (all IWMI), Sera Young (Northwestern University) and Marlos de Souza (FAO). The following individuals and organizations are gratefully acknowledged for providing comments and support during the review process: Marzella Wustefeld (WHO), Trudy Wijnhoven, Giulia Palma, Serena Pepino (all FAO), Danka Pantchova, Stefano Fedele, Franck Bouvet, Dominique Porteaud and Anna Ziolkovska (all UNICEF) and Denise Coitinho (UNSCN). The report was prepared under the overall management of Stineke Oenema (UNSCN). Janice Meerman (UNSCN) served as technical editor, Faustina Masini is credited with design.