GAIN Interview Cruncher - Nourishing Our Future: Addressing Malnutrition Through Breastfeeding
This Interview Cruncher aims to shed light on the critical role of maternal nutrition, in promoting successful breastfeeding and optimal infant nourishment. And to do so, we have three prominent speakers joining us today.
GAIN Working Paper Series 35 - Assessment of the Scale Up of Emotional Demonstrations in Indonesia
- 05/07/2023
The objective of this paper is to describe the initial scaling-up phase of the 'Baduta' programme (Baduta 2), which aimed to support national stunting-reduction efforts in Indonesia through emotional demonstrations (‘emo demos’), reflecting on the challenges faced and ensuing lessons learned, following the promising results of the 2017 evaluation of the programme.
GAIN @ WHA76: Joining Forces to Improve Adolescent Nutrition
Geneva, Switzerland
GAIN and partners are organising the World Health Assembly, WHA76 side event "Joining Forces to Improve Adolescent Nutrition" which calls for greater investment in adolescent nutrition and support to WHO member states to develop policies and programmes that support healthy diets and lifestyles.
The story of Joana, a vegetable seller in Mozambique
"After losing my husband, and with a family to look after, I had to wipe my tears and battle to provide for my family. It was from there that I realised that I needed to be the breadwinner of the family, and I became a vendor at the Munhava Market in Beira city". Joana Celestina, a female vendor at the central market in Mozambique.
GAIN Working Paper Series 31 - creating "moments with mothers"
- 01/12/2022
This working paper describes the application of the Behaviour Centred Design (BCD) framework to develop the 'Moments with Mothers' campaign, an intervention to improve IYCF practices supporting pregnant women, mothers, and other caregivers in Nacala Porto and Mossuril, Nampula province.
Increasing the consumption of nutrient-dense foods through schools in Tanzania
- 17/10/2022
The launch of the National School Feeding Guideline offers a strong lifeline to scale the provision of nutrient-dense fortified foods in schools.
Fortification Standard for yoghurt in Ethiopia
- 14/10/2022
Despite having more than 10 million dairy cows in Ethiopia, milk productivity and consumption is very low, on average below 2 litres per cow. In 2017, the GAIN Access to Better Dairy partnership was established and supported by Danida. Partners committed to help improve diets of children and mothers, as well as the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, by developing affordable, safe, and nutritious dairy solutions that appeal to children.
New global estimates of micronutrient deficiencies
Online Webinar, Global
Join this panel discussion on Monday, 17 October 2022 to learn about the magnitude of micronutrient malnutrition worldwide and ways to accelerate progress through cost-effective and scalable actions.
Market based home fortification - the Bangladesh micronutrient powder programme
- 10/10/2022
GAIN, BRAC, SMC, Renata, a Bangladeshi pharmaceuticals company, icddr,b and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), set out to evaluate whether such a programme could reach those who are vulnerable, whether they were impactful and whether they were good value for money compared to other routes to improved nutrition outcomes.