GAIN Working Paper Series 19 - Nourishing heroinas in Mozambique: understanding, designing with, and tailoring nutritional interventions to adolescent girls
- 19/04/2021
Adolescence is a time of rapid physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development that sets the foundation for health and provides an opportunity to improve life chances. Mozambique has a large and growing population of young people, but their health and social indicators are poor, especially for girls.
GAIN Briefing Paper Series 4 - Nutrient shortfalls in young children's diets and the role of affordability
- 23/03/2021
For millions of children in Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia, current diets do not contain enough nutrients for proper growth and development. This is a tragedy. New evidence has recently been published that sheds light on the nutrient gaps experienced by young children in 14 countries in these regions and examines which foods might be affordably used to fill them. This briefing paper highlights the key findings from this research.
GAIN at GHTechX 2021
Online Webinar, Global
Good nutrition is critical for achieving and maintaining a healthy life. For infants and young children, high-quality diets serve as the foundation for growth, physical and mental development, and protection from disease.
GAIN Working Paper Series 18 - Raising the profile of adolescent nutrition in Pakistan - Learnings on the journey from policy to action
- 10/03/2021
Pakistan’s adolescent population (circa. 40 million people) is experiencing a double burden of malnutrition, with 21% of boys and 12% of girls underweight and 18% of boys and 17% of girls overweight or obese. This merits a call to action to prioritise public funding and programming to address the determinants of adolescent malnutrition.
Unaffordability drives hidden hunger with lasting impact
GAIN in partnership with UNICEF is releasing a journal supplement in Nutrition Reviews, titled "Assessing nutrient gaps and affordability of complementary foods." Additionally, 18 accompanying country briefs will be published, half of which will focus on nutrient gaps and the other half on affordability.
Affordability of nutritious foods for complementary feeding
- 09/03/2021
These briefs are part of a series on affordability of nutritious foods for complementary feeding by GAIN and UNICEF conducted in selected countries in Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia as part of the UNICEF-BMGF Regional Initiatives for Sustained Improvements in Nutrition and Growth (RISING).
Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment (CONGA): Micronutrient gaps during the complementary feeding period
- 09/03/2021
These briefs are part of a series on complementary feeding gaps by GAIN and UNICEF conducted in selected countries in Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia as part of the UNICEF-BMGF Regional Initiatives for Sustained Improvements in Nutrition and Growth (RISING).
Policy brief - integrating adolescent nutrition within the national development strategy "nourishing our present and future"
- 20/05/2019
Adolescence is defined as the period of 10-19 years. In 2017, almost one out of five Indonesians was an adolescent (44.93 million adolescents). Nutrition is one of the cornerstones for adolescent health. Adolescence is a life stage for physical growth and an opportunity for developing healthy dietary practices.
Investing in the future of Bangladesh - Cost effective interventions to improve adolescents nutrition
- 19/05/2019
Bangladesh’s ambitions for middle-income status require the energy and creativity of the next generation. Investments in the nutrition of adolescents will enable this potential by realizing the demographic dividend.