GAIN Working Paper Series 31 - creating "moments with mothers"
This working paper describes the application of the Behaviour Centred Design (BCD) framework to develop the 'Moments with Mothers' campaign, an intervention to improve IYCF practices supporting pregnant women, mothers, and other caregivers in Nacala Porto and Mossuril, Nampula province.
Facilitating an enabling environment for food fortification in Pakistan
Food fortification is a safe and cost-effective strategy for improving diets and preventing or correcting micronutrient deficiencies. But industries delivering fortified foods are subjected to very high (around 60%) rates of import duties and taxes in Pakistan.
Empowering Adolescents for Healthy Eating in Bangladesh
In 2018 GAIN Bangladesh began implementing an adolescent nutrition programme titled ‘Nourishing Dreams’. This was designed in partnership with adolescents themselves, and has at its core making a pledge to eat better and work towards improving availability of healthier food in their surroundings.
Fortification Standard for yoghurt in Ethiopia
Despite having more than 10 million dairy cows in Ethiopia, milk productivity and consumption is very low, on average below 2 litres per cow. In 2017, the GAIN Access to Better Dairy partnership was established and supported by Danida. Partners committed to help improve diets of children and mothers, as well as the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, by developing affordable, safe, and nutritious dairy solutions that appeal to children.
GAIN and Act4Food Act4Change @ World Food Forum
- Rome, Global
World Food Forum is youth led movement network to transform our agricultural food systems. To inspire wide-spread discussion and action around this urgent topic, the World Food Forum (WFF) – a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems – is rallying around the 2022 theme: "Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet."
Adjustments to Indonesia's "Healthier choice logo" food labelling scheme could promote healthier choices
Adolescents in Indonesia face multiple nutritional challenges, including undernutrition and anaemia, as well as a growing prevalence of overweight and obesity. To promote understanding of the Healthier Choice Logo among adolescents as well as to learn more about adolescent food choices, GAIN supported a programme called Pelajar Peduli Gizi (Students for Nutrition).
Nutrition Olympiad: Let the youth Lead in Nutrition
Online Webinar, Bangladesh
Since the Tokyo Nutrition for growth (N4G) Summit is going to be organized by the end of 2021, will be the biggest platform to bring all relevant stakeholders of nutrition with the agenda to highlight nutrition as the priority investment area in development agenda. This will be an unique opportunity for the adolescents & youth, the future leaders to heard their voice, network & share expectations to the global leaders.
Now Launched: Tanzania’s First National School Feeding Guideline
In Tanzania, GAIN is supporting the implementation of the national mandate for the provision of fortified school meals through the SUN POOLED Fund project.
Launch of the Lancet series on adolescent growth and nutrition
Online Webinar, Global
This Series outlines the role of nutrition in adolescent growth, the drivers of adolescent food choice, and evidence on what works in policy and programming. At this global launch, lead authors* and panel members will discuss the key findings and recommendations to achieve better nutrition for this generation. The panel discussion will be followed by Q&A from the audience.