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Programmes
Our programmes strive for excellence and always aim to be accountable in what we do.
For over two decades, GAIN programmes have achieved local impact and inspired policy initiatives. Our programmatic activity directly benefits over one billion people around the world and forms the basis for the policy changes we advocate with partners. The focus of our programmes is to transform food systems so that they deliver sustainable, healthier diets for all – particularly for those most at risk of malnutrition and vulnerability. We respond holistically to the needs and opportunities of different communities with a strong commitment to equity. We work in partnerships at local, national, regional and global levels — we trust, empower, and believe in others. To solve malnutrition and improve diets requires engaging with and building alliances between governments, civil society, producers, academia, and the private sector.
We strive for excellence and always aim to be transparent and accountable in what we do. We also have a number of cross-cutting themes, these are co-benefits of work that we do with the primary aim of improving nutrition and healthier diets for all.
GAIN’s Programmes have three goals
GAIN helps design, implement, and scale a defined set of programmes, all with the following three goals :
IMPACT
GAIN programmes aim to measurably improve the quality of the diets of those most vulnerable to malnutrition, increasing the consumption of safe and nutritious foods and decreasing the consumption of harmful foods through sustainable means. Where possible, we also seek to improve other social goals under our Cross-Cutting Themes.
SUSTAINABILITY
We strive to achieve a legacy of lasting nutritional improvements that are economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable, including developing and supporting business models that are commercially sustainable.
SCALE
We work closely with governments and like-minded partners and continually seek to share our learnings, and to incorporate improvements in view of maximising our impact at scale. Malnutrition affects billions, our responses need to have the ambition to change this.
GAIN’s programmes are split as reported below:
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Fortification
Food systems often fail to sufficiently deliver foods rich in essential vitamins and minerals and the resulting micronutrient deficiencies affect approximately 2 billion people around the world. Potential solutions include adding vitamins and/or minerals during food processing (Large Scale Food Fortification, or “industrial fortification”) and the promotion of nutrient-enriched crop varieties (“biofortification”). Both approaches have demonstrably led to better health outcomes such as reductions in birth defects, blindness, and anaemia.
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Enhancing Value Chains for Under Consumed Foods
All foods are not created equally—some have exceptionally high levels of one or more nutrients that are important to human health, and, if consumed in greater quantities, could contribute significantly to improving dietary quality among population groups most vulnerable to malnutrition. Under this programme of work, GAIN has set out to: identify high-potential foods in the countries where we work; to understand the cultural and economic constraints to higher consumption, and to design and implement integrated solutions that will result in higher consumption. Some of this work includes crop and plant varieties unique to particular settings that are no longer commonly consumed, despite their nutritional value.
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Enabling Coherent Food Systems Policies
We support governments to institutionalise processes which will help them to develop and implement more coherent food systems policies. This improves access to healthier diets delivered through more sustainable food systems. We do this by developing tools and evidence to support the design and implementation of integrated food systems action plans and by helping to engage and build the capacities of key stakeholders. We document and share experience on best practice approaches and adopt these learnings to improve development partner collaboration.
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Thriving Nutrition Enterprise
Despite their pivotal role in driving food systems in low- and middle-income countries, Small- and Medium-Enterprises (SMEs) face significant barriers linked to limited technical know-how, difficulty accessing financing, and challenging operating environments. These barriers affect their capacity to contribute to the consumption of safe and nutritious foods , particularly by low-income consumers. Since 2013, GAIN has been working with over 1000 SMEs in nutritious food value chains to deliver sustainable solutions to the challenges they face.
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Workforce Nutrition
GAIN’s Workforce Nutrition programme aims to improve the nutrition of workers and farmers in low- and middle-income countries and communities. It focuses on improving access to, and demand for, healthier diets through workplaces (e.g., garment factories) or supply chains (e.g. tea estates, smallholder maize farmers). As co-convenor of the global Workforce Nutrition Alliance, GAIN brings together experts and thought leaders, provides employers with tools and resources, and curates data on best practices.
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Social Protection for Nutritious Diets
Millions of people around the world struggle to afford minimally nutritious diets, and social protection is critical for making healthy diets accessible. GAIN supports governments and other key stakeholders to accelerate system innovations that can make social protection investments work harder for the nutrition of the most vulnerable.
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Shifting Demand for Safer and Healthier Food
Consumers are important players in a market-based food system. Motivating them to prefer nutritious diets and safe foods is critical for improving diets on a sustained basis. While the importance of demand generation is widely acknowledged, there is a lack of effective and scalable approaches to generate consumer demand.
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Empowering Food Systems Actors
All people should be protagonists for food systems to be inclusive, equitable, and resilient.
The Empowering Food Systems Actors Programme addresses barriers to substantive participation in transforming food systems to advance prosperity and access to safe and nutritious foods to support healthier diets. We focus on children and young people, gender, and good governance in food systems.
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Enhancing Nutrition with Food System Data & Evidence
Through our food systems data and evidence initiatives, we seek to make a substantial contribution to the broader research, programme, and policy landscape, enabling GAIN and others to address local and global challenges, foster innovation, and catalyse positive change on a global scale.
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Saul Morris
Director of Programme Services
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Penjani Mkambula
Deputy Director, Programme Services Team
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An urgent call to scale-up access to healthy diets for the most vulnerable
Nutrition and Food Systems experts along with world leaders come together, in this week of World Food Day, for the Sixth Global Conference of the Micronutrient Forum, at the World Forum in the Hague, Netherlands.![Accelerating Action and Opening Opportunities - A Closer Integration of Climate and Nutrition](/sites/default/files/styles/thumb/public/thumbnail/capture-decran-2024-01-23-a-15.08.08.png?itok=QEvEhuOM)
Accelerating Action and Opening Opportunities - A Closer Integration of Climate and Nutrition
The Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) is a multistakeholder, multi-sectoral global flagship program
Launched by Government of Egypt at the “Adaptation and Agriculture” thematic day at COP27
About GAIN
At GAIN we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious foods for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
At GAIN, we believe that everyone in the world should have access to nutritious, safe, and affordable food. Today, one in three people - drawn from nearly every country on the planet - are unable to consume enough nutritious food. We work to develop and deliver solutions to this daily challenge.
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By understanding that there is no "one-size-fits-all" way of dealing with this problem, we develop alliances and build tailored programmes using a variety of models and approaches. We work through national, regional, and global alliances that provide technical, financial and policy support to a wide range of public and private organisations, focusing attention on where people get their food from – markets. As a result, we give priority to finding ways to change and improve how businesses and governments shape food systems for improved nutrition.
What matters most for us is impact. Our purpose is to improve the consumption of nutritious and safe foods for all. We focus on children, adolescents, and women because we know that working with these groups is crucial to transforming attitudes about food and hence life chances and livelihoods. We are supported by over 30 donors and work closely with international organisations and United Nations agencies.
We aim to make nutritious and safe foods accessible to everyone, especially the most vulnerable, to help end hunger and attain healthy diets for all, in ways that are good for the environment.
Our history
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GAIN was launched
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - a Swiss-based foundation - was launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious foods for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
Investing in the future: a united call to action on vitamin and mineral deficiencies
In partnership with the Flour Fortification Initiative, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, UNICEF and the Micronutrient Initiative, we contributed to the publication of the 2009 report "Investing in the Future: A united call to action on vitamin and mineral deficiencies".
The report called on governments and other partners to increase investments in life-saving vitamins and minerals and provides concrete recommendations to improve the delivery of supplements and fortified food to women and children around the world.
Investing in the future: a united call to action on vitamin and mineral deficiencies
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A child in Indonesia
GPF Launch
The GAIN Premix Facility (GPF) was launched to tackle the challenges that many companies and organizations involved in food fortification face in accessing reliable sources of quality, affordable micronutrient premix, a commercially prepared blend of vitamins and minerals used to fortify staple foods. An estimated 60 million consumers are being provided with higher quality nutrition through GPF. GAIN received funding from the Khalifa Bin Zayed al Nahyan Foundation in the United Arab Emirates to deliver complementary nutrition interventions that will benefit more than 15 million people in Afghanistan
AIM Launch
At the 2009 GAIN Business Alliance Global Forum in the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Initiative on Malnutrition (AIM) is launched by GAIN, the Government of the Netherlands, Unilever, DSM, AkzoNobel and Wageningen University. The initiative aims to eliminate malnutrition for 100 million people in Africa by 2015 and will grow through public private partnerships.
GAIN's new legal status
The Swiss government granted a special legal status to GAIN as an international organization under the Swiss Federal Act on Privileges, Immunities, Facilities and Financial Aid. The agreement was co-signed in Bern on behalf of the Federal Council of Switzerland by Ambassador Valentin Zellweger, Director of the International Law Department of the Swiss Foreign Affairs Ministry, and by GAIN’s Executive Director Marc Van Ameringen.
GAIN's Marketplace for Nutritious Foods
Initiated an Agriculture and Nutrition Program, which began work on the Marketplace for Nutritious Foods in Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania. The "Marketplace" aimed to improve the nutritional quality, affordability, and variety of food in the diets of the malnourished. It does this by investing in local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with innovative ideas that, once realized, will improve the way food is grown, stored, processed, and consumed.
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One of the Marketplace business
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Crates of tomatoes in Nigeria
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Assessing one of the Marketplace projects in Africa
New Offices
Opened new offices in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia and Singapore.
Ten years: half a billion lives changed
GAIN’s goal is to improve the lives of vulnerable populations around the world through access to affordable, better quality, nutritious foods.
We aim to reach one billion people. After ten years, our programs are already reaching more than 530 million including 250 million women and children and demonstrating public health impact:
- 30% reduction in anemia among women of child bearing age in sentinel sites in China
- 30% reduction in neural tube defects in new borns in South Africa
- 14% reduction in micronutrient deficiencies in young children in Kenya
We work to reduce malnutrition by mobilising public private partnerships that implement innovative and sustainable market-based solutions at scale.
Launch of ATNI
In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, GAIN launched the Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI), a new global initiative that evaluates food and beverage manufacturers on their policies, practices and performance related to obesity and undernutrition.
GPF success
Five years after the start of the GAIN Premix facility it reached more than 150 million people with quality premix for fortification of staple foods.
Twenty blenders, 40 micronutrient suppliers and five micronutrient powder producers supplied more than USD47 million in premix to 41 countries.
Launch of FACT
Launch of the first Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT) in Senegal in order to understand better how large scale food fortification programs impact public health.
Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT) Survey in Senegal
GAIN Nordic Partnership
Established in 2014 by the five founding partners: Arla Foods Ingredients, Tetra Pak, Danchurch Aid, the Confederation of Danish Industry and GAIN. It is a multi-sector platform with an ambition to facilitate scalable and inclusive business models that enhance the nutritional value of food in developing countries. The platform brings together Nordic companies, civil society, academia and the public sector in a forum for collaboration, action and knowledge sharing.
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GAIN Better Dairy event together with WFP
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Charlotte Pedersen, Head of GAIN Nordic, speaking at an event
Global Summit on Food Fortification
Together with The Government of Tanzania and other development partners (African Union, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, UNICEF, USAID and the World Food Programme) convened the first Global Summit on Food Fortification in September 2015. The three day event, part of international efforts to reinvigorate interest, awareness and investment in food fortification, was attended by 30 governments from countries suffering the highest levels of micronutrient malnutrition. It offered the opportunity to assess lessons learned and to forge a shared strategy to highlight the role of food fortification in food security and within the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Summit culminated in the Arusha Statement on Food Fortification.
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Marc Van Ameringen speaking at the Food Fortification Summit in 2015
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Jay Naidoo, Chairman of the GAIN Board of Directors, speaking at the Summit
The POSHAN project
Started two new maternal, infant and young child nutrition projects in India, addressing both chronic and acute malnutrition. Firstly, in collaboration with the World Bank and the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, we support women groups producing nutritious supplementary foods for 40,000 children in the State of Karnataka.
With the second project, together with UNICEF and ACF, we supported the Rajasthan Nutrition and Health Mission in a large-scale pilot of community-based treatment of 9,000 severely acutely malnourished children in 13 districts in the State of Rajasthan.
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Kids enrolled in the POSHAN project
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One of the families enrolled in the POSHAN project
The UNICEF-GAIN Partnership Project
Successfully closed the Gates-funded GAIN-UNICEF Universal Salt Iodization project in December 2015 which helped protect an additional 466 million people against iodine deficiency, including 113 million children.
Universal Salt Iodization, which has been implemented around the world, helped decrease the number of countries classified as iodine deficient from 54 in 2003 to 25 in 2015.
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Woman packing salt in a market
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Man holding salt in his hands
Lawrence Haddad
Lawrence Haddad appointed new Executive Director of GAIN.
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Lawrence Haddad chosen as the new Executive Director for GAIN
The fortification Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
Following the first ever global summit on food fortification in Tanzania in September 2015, we led over 20 partners as part of a fortification Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to consolidate the event's ground-breaking findings and map a way forward for partners.
A report published on the Future Fortified summit drew attention to the potential of food fortification to cost effectively reach billions of people with essential micronutrients. It emphasized the need for investment, better standards and regulation, and improved evidence gathering to make programs even more effective.
GAIN turns 15!
In 2017 GAIN celebrated its 15th Anniversary.
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Panel discussion at GAIN 15 anniversary
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Cakes at GAIN 15 Anniversary
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Lawrence Haddad speaking at GAIN 15 Anniversary
Launch of GAIN New strategy
During the reporting period (1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017), the GAIN Board conducted a wide-ranging consultation and adopted a new five-year strategy (2017–2022). This strategy confirmed GAIN’s purpose to advance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. In particular, we aimed to improve the consumption of safe and nutritious foods for – at a minimum – one billion people over the next five years and target major improvements to the food system, delivering more diverse and healthier diets for vulnerable citizens in countries where we work.
Published the FACT Manual and practical tools and templates
Published the FACT Manual and tools, which enables provides step-by-step guidance on how to decide, design, and conduct a FACT survey. Information generated by a FACT survey can be used by decision makers to improve fortification programmes by documenting successes and identifying gaps
Launch of Making Markets Work (MMW)
Making Markets Work (MMW) supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands; the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (BMZ); Irish Aid; the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; the International Development Research Center (Canada); and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) developed Nutrition Connect (a resource hub for what works for nutrition in the public-private space, www.nutritionconnect.org) and a Food Systems Dashboard: a new tool to bring together public and private data on different components of the food system to assess where it needs most attention to strengthen nutrition outcomes.
Executive Course - Together for Nutrition
Developed the first ever Executive Course, in partnership with Unilever, on public-private engagement in nutrition, which was positively assessed by its 25 participants from public and private sectors globally.
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The participants of the Executive Course
The GAIN Paper Series
Launched a new series of papers to disseminate the learning from GAIN’s programmes to diverse stakeholders in tailored formats.
The launch of the Commercialisation of biofortified crops (CBC)
GAIN launched a major new partnership with HarvestPlus, to work to expand the reach of their nutritious varieties of staple crops through commercialisation.
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GAIN and HarvestPlus celebrate new partnerships
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GAIN and HarvestPlus announce a new partnership
New partnerships
Signed several new MOUs in the year, including with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) (to link our SME work better with smallholder farmers); Euromonitor (to access retail sales data); the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) (on our urban and SME programmes), and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) (workforce).
GAIN invited to be a core partner of two important influencing initiatives, the Food Systems Dialogues, and the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU).
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Lawrence Haddad signs a MoU with Agnes Kalibata
EatSafe launched
EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food, is a USAID-funded, five-year multi-country programme aiming to enable lasting improvements in the safety of nutritious foods in traditional markets by focusing on consumer demand. EatSafe is unique in its design, highlighting the intersection of nutrition, health, and food safety and how this intersection affects local economies, food systems, and consumer behaviour
Keeping Food Markets Working and Response to the pandemic
As a response to COVID-19, in 2020 and 2021, GAIN provided $16m to maintain food supplies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan. We provided emergency financial support to over 160 food SMEs providing an additional 50 million servings of nutritious foods (fruits, vegetables, animal-source foods (ASFs), biofortified and fortified foods, etc.). We supported 38,402 key food workers (54% female) via vouchers or take-home family food rations.
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a factory worker with a mask pouring beans into a tray
The UN Food Systems Summit
Active influencing and participation in the UN Food Systems Summit and The Nutrition for Growth summit. GAIN enhanced her reputation during the Summit processes going by the different quotes and comments from leading organizations and international thought leaders.
GAIN led and supported two major new initiatives: the Act4FoodAct4Change and the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge.
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Maureen Muketha speaking live at UNFSS
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Lawrence Haddad speaking at UNFSS
Lancet Adolescent Nutrition Series
Continued our contribution to a Lancet series on adolescent health which was launched at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in December 2021.
Welcome to 20!
GAIN Turns 20!
On the 9th May 2002, GAIN was founded with the aim of tackling human suffering caused by malnutrition.
Over the past 20 years, we have been working with governments, businesses and civil society to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious foods for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
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The official GAIN20 logo
Benin - GAIN opens an office in the country to strengthen the fight against malnutrition
On Thursday 14 September 2023, GAIN signed a memorandum of understanding with Benin's Ministry of Agriculture to implement its activities.
GAIN is thus inaugurating its official presence in the country.
Benin - GAIN opens an office in the country to strengthen the fight against malnutrition
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Françoise Sayi, Country Director GAIN Benin (left) together with the Benin's Ministry of Agriculture (left)
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Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods - Cross-Subsidisation and Segmenting by Quality
In a cross-subsidisation model, one product is sold with a larger margin, with the excess profit used to subsidise another product sold at a smaller margin (e.g., by covering all or most company fixed costs with the higher-margin channel). BMR’s systematic review found several examples of companies using this strategy with the same product sold in different forms or settings to different groups of consumers.![Africa Can Feed the World](/sites/default/files/styles/thumb/public/news/thumbnail/A-man-picking-ripe-bananas-from-a-stalk-thumb.jpg?itok=tuIBRkZx)
Africa Can Feed the World
Delegates numbering more than 5,000 and representing over 90 countries converged to explore strategies to harness Africa's vast potential in expediting the development of regional, national and sub national food systems that would not only benefit the continent but also the entire world.![Africa Climate Week: An Inflection Point for Sustainable Development, Food Systems, and Nutrition](/sites/default/files/styles/thumb/public/news/thumbnail/Woman-watching-boys-boating-thumb.jpg?itok=Z5vsHquI)
Africa Climate Week: An Inflection Point for Sustainable Development, Food Systems, and Nutrition
[We, the African Heads of State and Government, commit to] redoubling our efforts to boost agricultural yields through sustainable agricultural practices, to enhance food security while minimizing negative environmental impacts. But perhaps there's more cause for optimism here than first meets the eye.![Benin - GAIN opens an office in the country to strengthen the fight against malnutrition](/sites/default/files/styles/thumb/public/news/thumbnail/Two-children-in-colorful-clothes-smiling-to-the-camera-thumb.jpg?itok=rwBQzXt9)
Benin - GAIN opens an office in the country to strengthen the fight against malnutrition
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss foundation launched by the United Nations, which has been working to reduce human suffering caused by malnutrition since 2002, will sign a memorandum of understanding with Benin's Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday 14 September 2023 to implement its activities. GAIN is thus inaugurating its official presence in the country.EatSafe
Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food
Feed The Future's EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food is a USAID-funded, five-year programme aiming to enable lasting improvements in the safety of nutritious foods in traditional markets by focusing on behavior change.
EatSafe’s objectives
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EatSafe’s formative research aimed to aggregate the existing evidence on the interplay between foodborne disease (FBD), traditional markets, and behavior change in LMICs.
EatSafe generated knowledge across topics including the relationship between food safety, nutrition, and health; consumers’ and vendors’ perspectives on food safety; and the importance of traditional markets to food security.
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EatSafe developed localised, market-based interventions to improve knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) related to food safety and the enabling environment in the countries where EatSafe operates.
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Interventions are assessed to understand their impact on consumers' and vendors' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) related to food safety. They are also tested for effectiveness, feasibility, and sustainability in traditional market settings.
In-country implementation
UNLOCKING TRADITIONAL MARKETS
EatSafe conducts rapid market assessments to understand consumer characteristics, vendor practices, gender dynamics, commodity supply, food safety risks, and the enabling environment.
EVIDENCE-BASED FOOD SAFETY INTERVENTIONS
Drawing from the market assessments, EatSafe co-designs interventions with key stakeholders. They are tested for effectiveness, feasibility, and sustainability, with a focus on behavior change among market actors.
EatSafe’s Resources
To find our more about EatSafe's work, browse our materials below. For additional information, please contact EatSafe@gainhealth.org.
Traditional markets provide access to highly nutritious but perishable foods. Foodborne illness can jeopardize it all.
Top Resources
Check out EatSafe's most-read resources.
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EatSafe Reports & Publications
Dive deep into EatSafe's comprehensive collection of reports and insightful publications. Crafted by experts in nutrition, food safety, and public health, each document offers valuable insights into the core areas of the program. EatSafe's portfolio of work includes groundbreaking research, insightful analyses, and innovative interventions for food safety in traditional markets.
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EatSafe Blogs
Discover EatSafe's latest explore thought-provoking articles, stories, and reflections in EatSafe's blogs. Penned by EatSafe staff and guest contributors, these pieces provide a deeper dive into the nuances of the EatSafe program. It's more than just updates—it's a space for reflection, learning, and dialogue about the broader context in which our program operates.
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EatSafe News
Stay updated with the latest developments and happenings around the EatSafe program. The news section offers a curated blend of announcements, features, and important updates—offering information on what's new and noteworthy.
EatSafe on Agrilinks
Check out EatSafe's Activity Page on Agrilinks for even more updates, resources and blogs. Agrilinks is a knowledge sharing hub and is part of the U.S. Government's Feed the Future initiative.
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Richard Pluke
Lead, Food Safety, and Chief of Party, EatSafe