Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - 08/05/2020
These document series summarise some rapid assessments undertaken by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to understand early impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on food systems in a set of low- and middle-income countries where GAIN works (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Nigeria).
Kathrin M. Demmler - 17/04/2020
Fighting malnutrition in all its forms is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Addressing it will require an agricultural transformation. Within Africa, this must include a focus on small and medium-size farms, which provide about 80% of total calories in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as other small actors along the value chain.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - 09/10/2019
GAIN works on supply and demand, as well as on changing incentives, rules and regulations to encourage production and consumption of nutritious and safe foods. We seek to understand and tackle barriers faced by small enterprises working to boost availability, affordability, desirability, and convenience of nutritious foods like eggs, especially for people on low-incomes.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - 09/10/2019
This factsheet highlights the vastly different levels of egg supply seen across African regions, selected African countries, and selected high-income countries. It discusses why eggs remain scarce and expensive in many low-income settings, including across much of Western, Eastern, and Middle Africa.
Alison Tumilowicz, Marieke Vossenaar, Kirstine Kjaer, Julia Vettersand, Edna Possolo, Gretel H. Pelto, Maria Elena Jefferds, Augusto Norte, Katia dos Santos Dias, Nadia Osman, Wendy Gonzalez, Alia Poonawala, Lynnette M. Neufeld - 10/01/2018
Micronutrient powders (MNP) are recommended by the World Health Organization as an effective intervention to address anaemia in children. A formative process evaluation was conducted to assess the viability of a model using free vouchers in two districts of Mozambique to deliver MNP and motivate adherence to recommendations regarding its use.
Ministry of Health of Mozambique, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Cornell University, COWI Mozambique - 01/06/2017
GAIN and its partnerships implemented a project aimed at improving the nutrient adequacy of infant and young child diets in three districts of Sofala Province, Mozambique. The results presented in this report are based on focused ethnographic study interviews with caregivers who participated in the program.
Ministry of Health of Mozambique, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), COWI Mozambique - 01/06/2017
GAIN aimed at improving the nutrient adequacy of infant and young child diets in three districts of Sofala Province, Mozambique, through the delivery of micronutrient powder, called “VitaMais”, to children 6–23 months old and behaviour change interventions.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Ministry of Health of Mozambique, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COWI Mozambique - 01/03/2017
GAIN and its partnerships supported MISAU in the implementation of a home fortification project, which aimed to improve complementary feeding practices through the delivery of micronutrient powder and behaviour change communication activities to children in three districts of Sofala Province, Mozambique.
Breinscope Consultants Limited, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - 01/11/2017
This report presents the results of that assessment and proposes a Consumption Monitoring and Surveillance Framework consisting of the various processes, phases, components, and domains that provide an enabling environment for this to happen.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) - 01/12/2017
The following report provides a consolidation of the findings, their implications for the achievements of the Marketplace program to date, and a series of recommendations to strengthen the design and potential for impact of the Marketplace moving forward.