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.
Market-based solutions for diet quality
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
| Verification status | Verified Find out more |
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| NAF SMARTness index | Lower moderate Find out more |
| Progress status | Progress not able to be assessed See progress details |
| Targeted location | Multi-country - 6 focus countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Benin and Uganda, as well as global. Targets differ per country: - Kenya: 9.5 million BoP consumers targetted; 1.2 million impacted with increased vegetable consumption - Mozambique: 6 million BoP consumer targetted; 1.5 … |
| Targeted population | Overall population (all ages, both sexes) |
| Population coverage | 6,000,000.0 |
| Duration | January, 2022 - December, 2026 |
Goal action plan
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.
Progress
Indicator
| Primary indicator | Number Of People With A More Diverse Adequate Diet (Diet Diversity - Hdd/Mdd-W And Others) |
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| Indicator monitor | To provide quantitative results at against this indicator, we will commission robust external impact evaluations in the 6 countries. The evaluations will be developed building on a clear pathway to impact to permit understanding of the process through which impacts are achieved, assess intermeidate progress and identify necessary modifications. On a periodic basis, we will conduct process evaluations, using a variety of methods (qualitative and quantitative) to assess a comprehensive range of predictors of diet quality. The project will also map and measure lower-level indicators with regular monitoring and assessment that allow us to identify and track progress towards outcomes. In the countries we will only assess the impact on diet quality once at the end of the period 2026. |
Reports
| Stage | Measurement Date | Value | Status |
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| Baseline | 2023 | tbd | |
| Progress report |
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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| Target | December, 2026 | 3 million BoP consumers with a more diverse adequate diet |
Nutrition Action Classification
Enabling
- Financial
- Operational
- Leadership and governance
- Research monitoring and data
Policy
- Food environment
- Food supply chain
- Consumer knowledge
- Nutrition care services
Impact
- Undernutrition
- Diet
- Obesity and diet-related NCDs
- Food and nutrition security
