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World Children’s Day 2025 – 20th Nov My Day, My Rights GAIN strengthens school meals, supports local SMEs, and boosts access to nutrient-rich foods. We empower children and youth as changemakers to build healthier, stronger communities.Billions of people worldwide are malnourished. Food systems transformation is essential to address this challenge, yet it is not happening fast enough. The cost of a healthy diet and food insecurity are instead heading in the wrong direction. Without significant intervention, billions of people will remain unable to access healthy diets and continue to be malnourished. GAIN is dedicated to improving this situation and experienced in designing and delivering high-quality programming, but we often run into challenges that limit our impact. For example, identifying promising areas or populations to target for maximum impact; making decisions with incomplete or low-quality data; localising interventions or content to different populations and contexts; understanding complex food supply chains; or verifying the compliance of partners with fortification standards or other guidelines.
This strategy is intended to demonstrate how the Global Alliance forImproved Nutrition (GAIN) can harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate impact across our programmes. It offers a practical high-level view for leaders and staff across the organisation to understand where and how AI can add value to our mission of ensuring healthy diets for all, especially the most vulnerable. By clarifying opportunities and limitations, the strategy provides a common framework for experimentation, learning, and responsible adoption of AI.
This strategy sets out how we will integrate AI into our programmes to better achieve our mission: ensuring all people, especially the most vulnerable, have access to healthy diets. Our approach focuses on using AI to design more impactful programmes, deliver them more efficiently, and scale them more rapidly. We will integrate general AI best practices across programmes while adopting specific tools and technologies where they add value.
Our objective is to cultivate an organisational culture where AI is not a technological add-on but a strategic enabler of greater nutrition impact. We also see an opportunity to play a leading role in shaping how AI is applied in food and nutrition programming, contributing thought leadership and demonstrating models that others can adopt and adapt.
Billions of people are still affected by #malnutrition, and despite global efforts, progress remains too slow. #AI offers a powerful opportunity to change that.
From identifying high-impact intervention areas, improving #data quality, and understanding complex #supplychain , to localising programmes across diverse contexts—AI is reshaping the way we design and deliver #nutrition solutions.
In this video, Ty Beal highlights how GAIN is strategically applying #artificialintelligence to strengthen programmes, boost efficiency, and accelerate impact for healthier diets worldwide.
Billions of people worldwide are malnourished. Despite our best efforts, the cost of a healthy diet and food insecurity continue heading in the wrong direction. Without significant intervention, this crisis will persist—but we believe artificial intelligence (AI) represents a powerful new tool to help change that trajectory.
At GAIN, we're no strangers to the challenges that limit our impact: identifying the right populations to target, making decisions with incomplete data, localising interventions across diverse contexts, understanding complex supply chains, and verifying compliance with fortification standards. These obstacles slow our progress toward a world where everyone can access healthy diets.
Meanwhile, AI adoption has surged from niche experimentation to mainstream deployment. Today, 78% of companies use AI in at least one business function—up from 55% just a year earlier. The development sector has seen transformative technologies before: mobile money and text messaging revolutionised how we deliver resources and information to remote populations. AI represents the next wave of innovation—one we must harness thoughtfully and strategically.
Director, Knowledge Leadership
Senior Technical Specialist
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The 30th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) will take place in Belém, Brazil, from Monday 10 to Friday 21 November 2025. The COPs are an annual opportunity for Parties and non-Party stakeholders to meet and shape our international response to climate change.
- 22/10/2025
As Pakistan advances its URAAN Plan and National Food Systems Transformation Pathway, meaningful youth engagement will determine how inclusive that progress becomes. Despite strong national frameworks and growing youth-led innovation, young people remain largely outside formal decision-making. This policy brief sets out practical actions to institutionalise youth participation across governance structures—embedding the Scaling Up Nutrition Youth Network (SYN) within national and provincial coordination bodies, assigning youth advisory roles and quotas, and establishing a Youth in Food Systems Working Group to align mandates and financing. It further calls for building leadership pipelines through a Youth Food Policy Fellowship, integrating national programmes like Kamyab Jawan with food system priorities, and introducing digital accountability tools such as a Youth Engagement Scorecard. By embedding youth as architects of transformation, Pakistan can turn its demographic strength into a lasting engine for innovation, accountability, and resilient food systems.
- 21/10/2025
Bangladesh is redefining its path toward a more equitable, climate-resilient, and nutrition-secure future—and young people are at the centre of that journey. As the country advances major national strategies like the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy, this policy brief highlights how youth can move from community action to shaping national decision-making. It proposes creating formal youth roles in bodies such as the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC) and District Nutrition Coordination Committees and strengthening cross-ministerial collaboration through a Youth in Food Systems Working Group. The brief also calls for expanding Department of Youth Development (DYD) programmes to include policy and governance, integrating food systems into university curricula, and building leadership pipelines through fellowships, mentorships, and digital participation tools. By positioning young people as active partners in governance, Bangladesh can cultivate a generation of leaders driving food systems transformation in line with the country’s long-term development agenda.