World Breastfeeding Week 2025
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World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is a global campaign to raise awareness and galvanise action on themes related to breastfeeding.
Micro Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME)Day 2025
- Virtual, Global
The United Nations General Assembly declared 27 June as Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day, to raise public awareness of their contribution to sustainable development and the global economy. Policymakers must move beyond recovery and consider ways in which to lower and eliminate barriers faced by MSMEs, improve the business environment and access to finance, markets and technology in these fragile times. It is critical that countries and their development partners continue to support and empower MSMEs and unlock their full potential through inspiring innovation, creativity and decent work for all.
GAIN Green Week 2025: Celebrating Earth Day & Sustainability
- Virtual, Global
At GAIN, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. This year, we're marking Earth Day (April 22) as part of Green Week 2025, a dedicated time for reflection, action, and engagement on environmental sustainability across our global offices.
World Health Day
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Healthy beginnings, Hopeful futures World Health Day, celebrated on 7 April 2025, will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being. WHO and partners will also share useful information to support healthy pregnancies and births, and better postnatal health. Stay tuned for GAIN’s contributions to World Health Day 2025.
78th World Health Assembly (WHA)
- Geneva, Global
The 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from Monday, May 19, 2025 to Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Watch out for GAIN’s participation at WHA 78 as we push for stronger food systems and healthier communities.
The Road to N4G: The Role of Enterprise Support Organisations (ESOs) in the Fight Against Malnutrition Webinar
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Join us for an engaging discussion on how Enterprise Support Organisations (ESOs) can drive real change in the fight against malnutrition. ESOs are key drivers in strengthening food systems, supporting agri-businesses, and fostering innovation to combat malnutrition. But how can they be better leveraged for impact? Let's find out.
United Nations embraces a healthy diet indicator towards zero hunger and malnutrition
In a significant step towards addressing malnutrition, the United Nations adopted Minimum Dietary Diversity as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator. Globally, almost 3 billion people are unable to access and afford a healthy diet. Micronutrient deficiencies, caused in large part by inadequate diets is one of the leading factors in malnutrition globally. Poor diets also account for a global rise in non-communicable diseases and contribute significantly to premature mortality, worldwide. Despite the central importance of healthy diets, until recently, global efforts towards addressing malnutrition lacked standardised metrics to effectively track diet quality. The adoption of Minimum Dietary Diversity in the SDG framework will now give governments, policy makers and international organisations a key tool to formulate evidence-based strategies that can improve diets and help reduce malnutrition.
GAIN Working Paper n°48-Improving Affordability of Nutritious Foods Through Packaging Innovations
- 10/03/2025
Packaging can keep foods safe; help make them appealing, convenient, and long-lasting; and convey key information about them to consumers. At the same time, packaging is an important contributor to food system waste and a major driver of certain foods’ prices in LMICs. As such, it is a sector ripe for creative disruption as part of food system transformation – to ensure safe, nutritious foods can reach the consumers who need them, in affordable forms and with limited negative environmental impact. This paper has considered in detail three packaging innovations that could be used to make nutritious foods more accessible to lower-income consumers: single-serve packaging, reusable packaging, and selling products in bulk without individual packaging.
CASCADE Result Brief- Benin
- 06/03/2025
Project Description CASCADE Benin works to support and strengthen national nutrition policies in 20 communes in six of the country’s 12 departments. Implemented by CARE and GAIN in partnership with nine local organizations, the project aligns with the priorities identified in Benin’s National Food and Nutrition Policy (Politique Nationale de l’Alimentation et de la Nutrition (PNAN).
CASCADE Result Brief- Ethiopia
- 06/03/2025
The CAtalyzing Strengthened policy aCtion for heAlthy Diets and resiliencE (CASCADE) focuses on improving nutrition and food security by promoting healthier diets through multisectoral collaboration and evidencebased food and nutrition-related policies.