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 delivers results: it makes people healthier, stronger and more productive.
GAIN is actively supporting 19 projects in 18 countries that bring fortified staple foods and condiments to people in need, and is involved in a range of other targeted partnership projects.
They are making a tangible difference to people’s lives around the globe. While not all monitoring and evaluation data is yet available, progress achieved to date on our targets and on our ultimate aim of improving the nutrition of one billion people is significant.
We continuously improve the tools at our disposal to measure and better our performance. Our partners now use a new semi-annual reporting tool and will receive training in how to better measure results with a peer-reviewed toolkit. All data are fed into an organization-wide results database.
On the ground, we continue to work with our partners to directly measure baseline and mid-term data from our projects in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, China and South Africa. Finally, looking to the future, we have undertaken a costing study to identify the countries and food vehicles where fortification can have the largest impact over the coming ten years.
The first results of our evidence-gathering are encouraging. We are on track to reach 612 million people when our projects are at full scale, 335 million of whom are in vulnerable groups such as women and children.
Here are a few examples of how we tangibly improve nutrition on a large scale and thereby enhance people’s lives on a daily basis.
Georgia
Georgia has adjusted maternal mortality rates that are nearly three times those of industrialized countries, and the probability of a child dying before the age of five is about eight times higher. GAIN supports the Georgian National Fortification Alliance and Georgian NGO ACTS to install micro-feeders and premix inclusion machines at 18 large and medium-sized flour mills. Millers are trained in production, quality control and assurance. The project aims to produce 280,000 metric tons of fortified wheat flour that will benefit some 2.3 million consumers, including 1 million of the most vulnerable women and children.
Ghana
In Ghana, 65% of pregnant women, 76% of preschoolers and 41% of women of child bearing age are anemic, and this contributes to 20% of maternal deaths. Our project supports the introduction of mandatory flour fortification with eight micronutrients and vegetable oil fortification with vitamin A, and upgrades quality control in the public and private sector. After three years, 100% of all commercially milled wheat flour, as well as manufactured and imported vegetable oil, will be fortified. This equates to 481,000 metric tons of wheat and 40,000 metric tons of vegetable oil per year. This initiative will cover 80% of the population, including the 4.4 million individuals most at risk.
China
Since December 2006, GAIN has been working on a nation-wide policy for wheat fortification. The National Standard for Fortified Wheat Flour has been approved by National Standards Standing Committee. Iron-fortified soy sauce now reaches an estimated 33 million people at risk of iron deficiency. Over the past year, four more large companies obtained accreditation to fortify soy sauce, bringing the total to 20 producers.
Through its convening power and innovative mindset, GAIN is helping
address hunger and undernutrition effectively and sustainably. GAIN
is creating a new partnership paradigm that combines the respective
strengths of the private and public sectors, producing both social and
economic value for all stakeholders and in particular the poor.
Paulus Verschuren - Unilever
Francophone West Africa
GAIN and others have supported the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa to organize a public-private dialogue on oil fortification with the governments of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Togo. In March 2007, the Union and other partners joined forces to promote the mandatory fortification of cooking oil with vitamin A for at least 70% of the population by 2010. These efforts build on GAINsupported oil fortification programs in Côte d’Ivoire and Mali.
India
Many children in the Indian state of Gujarat are nutrient-deficient. In September 2006, GAIN initiated a food fortification project where 10,000 metric tons of fortified blended food, procured by the government through the Integrated Child Development Services system, reaches 400,000 children aged between six and 36 months. This project brought in additional resources and is now being scaled up to reach a million children.
The Government of Gujarat revised its norms and will now only procure fortified blended food for the system.
