Strategic Partnerships

GAIN works with international organizations (IOs) to advance the nutrition agenda and develop national nutrition policies. Partnerships serve as a platform to advocate for improved nutrition and disseminate best practices in nutrition interventions.

Partners include:

International Finance Corporation

GAIN has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to launch a fund, the IFC-GAIN Nutrition Trust, which encourages local businesses to develop new products, distribution channels and marketing approaches. These products are aimed at improving the nutrition of infants and young children in low-income families.

Scaling up Nutrition

GAIN is part of an initiative that brings together more than eighty partners, including international organizations, civil society, the private sector, research groups, governments, and regional bodies, in an effort to define priority actions and advocate for increased investments in nutrition across different sectors. In March 2010, the group published “Scaling up Nutrition”. The group continues to work together to advance the nutrition-sensitive approaches to development and the nutrition-specific interventions described in the Scaling up Nutrition framework.

United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Council

GAIN obtained consultative status with the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOC) in July 2008. With this status, GAIN has a platform on which it can put forward its position during UN conferences. GAIN can attend UN meetings along with other non-profit organizations, circulate statements at ECOSOC meetings and speak at ECOSOC subsidiary bodies’ meetings.

United Nations High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis

GAIN is an active participant in consultation processes led by the Coordinator of the United Nations High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis. Participation is one means of enabling GAIN to remain linked to global issues related to food and nutrition security.