Coordinating National And Sub-National Action For Food Systems Transformation
As countries develop their National Pathways for food systems transformation, one emerging need is to ensure policies land at different levels. A truly effective ‘national’ policy must span all sub-national areas.GAIN celebrates International
Women's Day 2024
#InspireInclusion
What is International Women's Day?
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8th every year.
IWD is a global event dedicated to recognising the achievements of women across various fields, promoting gender equality, and raising awareness about the challenges women continue to face worldwide.
It has been consistently celebrated by numerous organisations, governments, and communities around the globe, including GAIN.
It serves as a celebration of achievements but also a call for action, IWD encourages individuals, organisations, and governments to take concrete steps towards addressing these gender disparity issues.
This year's theme "Invest in women: Accelerate progress #InspireInclusion" means not only empowering women to break through barriers but also to accelerate progress for all, creating a world of inclusive growth, shared success, and equity.
Explore some of GAIN's past International Women's Day
GAIN Interview Cruncher: Tackling Equity in our Food Systems
In this Interview Cruncher, we address the specific challenges faced by women and girls within food systems, exploring how these imbalances contribute to health inequities, unhealthy diets, and malnutrition risks. We'll examine the urgency of addressing these issues in light of missed SDG targets and the role of human rights in fostering equality.
Discussion covers the magnitude of the problem, including global trends and policy implications for equity. We explore the holistic solutions from a human rights perspective, focusing on support strategies for women and girls, the importance of data and behavioral change, and strategies for transforming food systems to enhance economic opportunities, food security, and equitable access to healthy diets globally.
EmpowerHer: Conversations with Women Entrepreneurs
Strengthening and equipping women-led businesses and entrepreneurs is a cornerstone of GAIN's gender work. Ensuring support, technical work and empowerment at at the centre of our work, below we present profiles of successful women who have been part of the work of the SUN Business Network.
View business as more than just profit-making; it's a journey of continuous learning and growth. Invest in upgrading your products, and services and expanding your network.
Seize every opportunity to talk about your work and its impact on the community. Remain consistent in what you are doing and do it to your very best by learning and unlearning till your brand speaks for itself.
Women entrepreneurs should emphasise their business narrative, engage in mentorship, collaborate with similar organizations, and showcase women's unique strengths.
SBN's trainings are very impactful, and I've taken part in all of them. It's hard for me to single one out because they are all interconnected and, in my view, they complement each other and have helped me to have a much broader vision of my business.
CASCADE is Inspiring Inclusion
CAtalyzing Strengthened policy aCtion for heAlthy Diets and ResiliencE (CASCADE) is a Dutch-funded project whose goal is to improve food security and contribute to the reduction of malnutrition of at least 5 million women of reproductive age and children under five in Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. Leads of CASCADE share how the programme is empowering women.
The Story of Joana, a Vegetable Seller in Mozambique
Joana Celestina is a vendor at the central market in Mozambique: "After losing my husband, and with a family to look after, I had to wipe away my tears and battle to provide for my family. I realised I needed to be the breadwinner of the family, and I became a vendor at the Munhava Market in Beira city".
Kenya needs urgent action to improve complementary feeding for young children, new research reveals
Complementary feeding, the practice of providing infants and young children with a variety of nutritious and safe foods while continuing to breastfeed, is essential for their health and development. However, Kenya, despite being a fast-growing economy with a constitutional right to nutrition and health for every child, has made little progress on this front.
Mini Cruncher: EatSafe - Protecting Nutrition through Food Safety
Feed The Future's EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food is a USAID-funded programme aiming to enable lasting improvements in the safety of nutritious foods in traditional markets by focusing on behaviour change. Sadia Kaenzig, Head of Communications and Caroline DeWaal, Deputy Director at EatSafe speak about the importance and impact of food safety.
GAIN celebrates innovative MRS award for our Global Diet Quality Project
GAIN announce that the Global Diet Quality Project (GDQP) has been honored with the prestigious Best International Research Award 2023 by the UK's Market Research Society.
We must address the interconnected challenges of climate change and nutrition
Launching today are two reports outlining both the pathways through which nutrition and climate are connected and the current state of action on addressing these two issues. The reports will be launched at a side event co-hosted with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement, along with an official reception hosted by Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
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.
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.