To reduce malnutrition by achieving positive changes in diet quality for 3 million consumers at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Benin and Uganda by December 2026.
Description
The programme ultimately seeks to improve diet quality, specifically diet diversity, by: increasing the supply of nutritious, safe foods (NSF) through improved availability, affordability, and market functioning; increasing demand for NSF by enhancing desirability, motivation, and knowledge; improving food system governance to support NSF consumption; and strengthening coordination and linkages across the portfolio of investments.
The programme works through four broad activity areas across the six countries, bringing these together in an integrated value chain approach in each country, leveraging all actions to maximise impact potential:
• Strengthening nutritious food value chains from production to consumption: addressing the policies, incentives, and many aspects of food systems and food environment configuration that do not favour production, sale, and consumption of nutritious, safe food. This includes working with SMEs and businesses in nutritious food value chains, as well as policymakers and other stakeholders, to strengthen supply chains to improve availability, accessibility and affordability, promote demand and provide conducive policies and regulation, for nutritious safe foods, including investment and innovation.
• Prioritising, empowering, and protecting those in situations of vulnerability: inline with several drivers within food systems, addressing gender, the special dietary needs of women, youth and children, and the low purchasing power of BoP consumers.
• Generating and using evidence for programme improvement, to inform policymaking, and to influence the approaches and priorities of others.
• Collaborating, sharing, disseminating, learning, and strengthening impact potential.
The programme will be delivered in partnership with national and local governments, civil society and private-sector partners.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Market-based solutions for diet quality
Description
In partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) will reduce malnutrition by achieving positive changes in diet quality for 3 million consumers at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Benin and Uganda by December 2026.
The programme will invest €80 million to transform food systems, leading to lasting changes that favour improved diet quality and, ultimately, nutrition outcomes. It will focus on BoP consumers earning less than $3.2 per day as the beneficiaries, starting with their nutritional and wider context and working back throughout the food system.
The programme will report using independent assessments of impacts against internationally recognised measures of diet quality, principally diet diversity metrics. This will be achieved through:
• Increasing the supply of nutritious, safe foods (NSF) by improving availability, affordability and market functioning.
• Increasing demand for NSF by enhancing desirability, motivation and knowledge.
• Enhancing governance of the food system to support NSF consumption.
• Strengthening coordination and linkages across the portfolio of investments.
The programme will be delivered with national and local governments, civil society and private-sector partners.
GNR assessment
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Verified
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| SMARTness index |
Lower moderate
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Details
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
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Diet
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of people with a more diverse and adequate diet (measured diet diversity metrics such as the Household Dietary Diversity Score [HDDS] or the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women [MDD-W], and others) |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | tbd | 2023 |
| Target | 3,000,000 People | December 2026 |
Progress
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Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator’s updated (latest) level or status.
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