World Breastfeeding Week: How Emo Demos are raising awareness about breastfeeding in Mozambique
Through an innovative intervention called Emo Demos, about 12,680 women learned about the importance of breastfeeding. Meet Madalena, one of these women who learned to care for herself and her children during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Putting Nutrition on the Plate: A Call to Action for Child Lens Investors
In 2023, Criterion Institute and UNICEF partnered to develop child lens investing: an emerging field that intentionally integrates considerations of child rights and wellbeing into investment processes. Understanding is growing of the opportunity that exists for increasing economic, social, and environmental impact by considering children when making investments.
World Breastfeeding Week 2024
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World-over, the first week of August is observed as ‘Breastfeeding Week’. This global campaign aims to raise awareness about breastfeeding and its advantages. World Breastfeeding Week, coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), revolves around strengthening the capacity of actors that protect, promote and support breastfeeding across different levels of society.
GAIN Working Paper Series 39 - Impact of Gender Norms on Children’s Diets
To better understand the primary pathways through which gender norms impact children’s diets, this scoping review examines recent literature on gender issues related to child feeding in LMICs. It seeks to identify trends that occur within specific populations and cross-culturally. The findings will support increased gender sensitivity across GAIN programmes.
GAIN Interview Cruncher - Nourishing Our Future: Addressing Malnutrition Through Breastfeeding
This Interview Cruncher aims to shed light on the critical role of maternal nutrition, in promoting successful breastfeeding and optimal infant nourishment. And to do so, we have three prominent speakers joining us today.
GAIN Working Paper Series 35 - Assessment of the Scale Up of Emotional Demonstrations in Indonesia
The objective of this paper is to describe the initial scaling-up phase of the 'Baduta' programme (Baduta 2), which aimed to support national stunting-reduction efforts in Indonesia through emotional demonstrations (‘emo demos’), reflecting on the challenges faced and ensuing lessons learned, following the promising results of the 2017 evaluation of the programme.
GAIN @ WHA76: Joining Forces to Improve Adolescent Nutrition
Geneva, Switzerland
GAIN and partners are organising the World Health Assembly, WHA76 side event "Joining Forces to Improve Adolescent Nutrition" which calls for greater investment in adolescent nutrition and support to WHO member states to develop policies and programmes that support healthy diets and lifestyles.