Improve access to fortified foods for 1.2 billion people through improved fortification policies and protocols
Description
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) will increase access to fortified foods by:
• Supporting new countries or governments in establishing new food fortification programmes, including new food vehicles.
• Strengthening or improving compliance within existing fortification programmes through technical assistance to industry (including digital QA/QC), support to government to improve monitoring and enforcement, and civil society engagement to push duty bearers to uphold their responsibilities.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Better nutrition through fortification
Description
Supported by the Gates Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, GAIN will work with national governments to increase access to fortified foods across six geographies through 2022–2025: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Uganda. Through our programming, technical assistance will be provided to governments, food producers and civil society.
Also, a global alliance for food fortification will be strengthened by improving coordination and communication across key development partner organisations through the Global Fortification Technical Advisory Group, and GAIN will support the establishment of food fortification digital monitoring tools in at least three countries.
Altogether, this will ensure that at least 1.2 billion people will have access to fortified staple foods and that at least three governments will establish new food fortification mandates or significantly strengthen existing programmes by 2025.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Food supply chain
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of fortification policies or protocols with specific improvements |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0 Policies or protocols | 2021 |
| Target | 3 Policies or protocols | November 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 4 policies | November 2023 |
Reached by end date
The target had been reached on or before the end date.
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