- 09/10/2019
This factsheet highlights the vastly different levels of egg supply seen across African regions, selected African countries, and selected high-income countries. It discusses why eggs remain scarce and expensive in many low-income settings, including across much of Western, Eastern, and Middle Africa.
- 20/11/2012
This study evaluated the sustainability of market-based community distribution of micronutrient powders (Sprinkles®, Hexagon Nutrition, Mumbai, India) among pre-school children in Kenya.
- 01/01/2018
This project is part of a wider initiative at GAIN on Innovative Finance and aims at assessing and sizing the financial needs of enterprises working along food value chains that could produce nutritious foods in Kenya and Tanzania with a particular focus on SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) and food systems after the farm gate.
- 15/01/2014
In 2012, GAIN joined forces with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, to increase the production and distribution of micronutrient powder sachets. This case study describes the approach taken and highlights the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned.
- 06/03/2015
In Kenya, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is implementing a project to reduce anaemia, iron deficiency and vitamin A deficiency through improved infant and young child feeding practices and MNP intake by integrating distribution of MNP in different existing platforms including: government health facilities and commercial distribution.
- 01/11/2017
This report presents the results of that assessment and proposes a Consumption Monitoring and Surveillance Framework consisting of the various processes, phases, components, and domains that provide an enabling environment for this to happen.
- 01/05/2016
This monograph is devoted to presentation of the results from ethnographic studies of infant and young child feeding that were undertaken in five counties in Kenya – Vihiga, Kitui, Isiolo, Marsabit and Turkana – as part of a large project aimed at improving nutrition in these communities.