About GAIN

Investing in Partnerships to End Malnutrition

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. GAIN is a Swiss foundation that mobilizes public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition. It was created in 2002 at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children. The organization is delivering improved nutrition to an estimated 273 million people, half of whom are women and children, in more than 25 countries. Nutrition products are as varied as fortified cooking oil and flour in Africa, soy sauce in China and biscuits in India, as well as specialized products for infant and young child nutrition, and interventions to protect the most vulnerable affected by emergencies or chronic illness. GAIN’s Business Alliance unites food producers and is a global focal point for private sector strategies against undernutrition in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin American and the Caribbean. GAIN’s goal is to reach more than one billion people with fortified foods that have sustainable nutritional impact. GAIN is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and has Regional Offices in Cairo, Johannesburg, New Delhi and Washington D.C. that support programs.

GAIN has received funding from a number of public and private sector donors including: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Goldsmith Foundation, the Government of the Netherlands, the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nehayan Foundation (KBZF), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Wellcome Trust.