Building National Platforms: Africa

Most of GAIN’s work is currently in Africa, where one in four Africans is undernourished according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.Sixty-seven percent of GAIN’s beneficiaries are in Africa.

GAIN’s highlights in Africa include:

• Supporting the passing of national legislation in Ethiopia mandating that all salt for edible consumption be iodized;
• Helping make available an easy-to-use, inexpensive and rapid tool to monitor the quality of vegetable oil fortified with vitamin A;
• Scaling up nutrition projects in Kenya.

Building National Platforms in Africa. PDF.