Strengthening Resilience Through Food Fortification

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), supported by the Gates Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, will work with governments, civil society organisations and the private sector to increase access to fortified foods across at least five geographies from 2025–2029: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Rwanda. Support will include technical assistance to governments, food producers and civil society. GAIN will support the scale-up of a digital monitoring tool to support fortification quality in three countries and introduction of the system to an additional country. A global alliance for food fortification, the Global Fortification Technical Advisory Group (GF TAG), will be strengthened through enhanced communication capacities to facilitate sharing research, learning and advocacy/communications/technical resources across geographies. GAIN will convene the GF TAG bimonthly (6 times/year) with at least 20 organisations regularly participating. GAIN will provide financial and staff support to the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Coordination Mechanism for Food Fortification, including support for creation and implementation of a regional roadmap for food fortification. Altogether, this will ensure that at least 1.5 billion people will have access to fortified staple foods. As a result of GAIN’s work, at least one geography will establish a new mandate for fortification of a local staple food, and nascent food fortification programmes in Ethiopia and Rwanda will be supported and strengthened to the point where fortified staples are accessible across all provinces (Rwanda) and regional states (Ethiopia).