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 impact improved diet quality (in terms of diet diversity) through increased supply of nutritious, safe foods (NSF) (availability, affordability and market functioning); increased demand for NSF (desirability, motivation and knowledge), enhanced governance of the food system to support NSF consumption and strengthened coordination and linkages across the portfolio of investments.
The programme works through four broad activity areas across the 6 countries, bringing these together in an integrated value chain approach in each country, leveraging all actions to maximize 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.
Prioritise, empower, protect those in situations of vulnerability: in line with several drivers within food systems to address gender, the special dietary needs of women, youth and children, and the low purchasing power of BoP consumers.
Generate and use evidence for programme improvement, to inform policymaking, and to influence the approaches and priorities of others.
Collaborate, share, disseminate, learn, and strengthen impact potential
The programme will be delivered with national and local governments, and 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 EUR80m to transform food systems leading to lasting changes that favour improved diet quality and ultimately, nutrition outcomes, with a 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 assessment of impacts against internationally recognised measures of diet quality (principally diet diversity metrics), achieved through increased supply of nutritious, safe foods (NSF) (availability, affordability and market functioning); increased demand for NSF (desirability, motivation and knowledge), enhanced governance of the food system to support NSF consumption and strengthened coordination and linkages across the portfolio of investments. The programme will be delivered with national and local governments, and 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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Impact >
Diet
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of people with a more diverse adequate diet (diet diversity - HDD/MDD-W and others) |
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| Baseline | tbd | 2023 |
| Target | 3,000,000 people | December 2026 |
Progress
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