WELCOME | INNOVATION | HIGHLIGHTS 2007 | HIGHLIGHTS 2006 | 01 FIGHTING
MALNUTRITION | MEASURING OUR PERFORMANCE | 02 BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS |
NEW PARTNERS AND INNOVATIONS | 03 ENABLING INNOVATION | 04 IMPROVE NUTRITION
| FORTIFICATION PROGRAMS | 05 FINANCIAL STATEMENT | INCOME STATEMENT AS
AT 06.30.07 | BALANCE SHEET AS AT 06.30.07 | GAIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
GAIN MANAGEMENT
GAIN builds partnerships, and especially engages the private sector, to the benefit of all involved.
GAIN, itself an alliance of different sectors, believes that partnerships are essential in the fight against malnutrition. Therefore, we build and stimulate connections between stakeholders at the national and international level.
With governments, the private sector and civil society, for instance, we change legal frameworks to allow salt iodization, supply specific nutrients to schoolchildren and people living with HIV/AIDS, develop new social businesses that meet the needs of low-income consumers, and find ways to deliver public goods through private channels.
Our specific strength is mobilizing the private sector to encourage contributions to our common fight to end vitamin and mineral deficiencies through innovations, new products, distribution mechanisms and marketing methods. Good business also thrives from delivering healthy foods to those in need.
Our partnerships are diverse and include :
Improving emergency rations
As the number of refugees and displaced people grows every day, we are investigating the distribution of food aid and options to fortify emergency rations together with the World Food Programme. Food aid all too often consists of basic packages, so that fortifying emergency food or providing vitamin and mineral powders have a huge potential to improve the health of an already vulnerable group.
Stimulating healthy growth
We worked with private and public partners on a new program to improve the health of infants and young children. It resulted in a new partnership program, which aims to promote exclusive breastfeeding up until six months of age, and to promote the use of low cost, high quality fortified complementary foods and supplements for children older than six months.
Fortifying local growth
We are working with Grameen Danone Foods Ltd. on a novel business model in Bangladesh. Local producers supply milk for a small-scale factory, which turns it into a yoghurt with essential nutrients - Shoktidoi. Women vendors earn a living by selling it at an affordable price. GAIN works with the Johns Hopkins University to study the impact on the health of children.
Iodizing salt
Salt iodization still does not reach everyone. In partnership with UNICEF, GAIN aims to increase salt iodization in 13 priority countries to bring the percentage of households that use iodized salt globally from 70 to 85%. This means protecting an additional 790 million people, including 20 million infants, from iodine deficiency.
Reaching consumers
GAIN is working with leading multinational Cargill since November 2006. Cargill is making some of its expertise and know-how available to GAIN to make access to quality premix easier for the fortification of products in developing countries.
Establishing sectoral collaboration
GAIN has set up a nutrition network of international partners in China, including UNICEF, the Asian Development Bank, the United States Centers for Disease Control, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The group met for the first time in 2007 and is now working to help China more effectively address
malnutrition.
While we make money, we can also do good. That is what social busi-
ness is all about, and you can use your creative energies to get involved
in social business that improves nutrition. GAIN can help in that effort.
Prof. Mohammad Yunus - Nobel Laureate
