title: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN): a decade of partnerships to increase access to and affordability of nutritious foods for the poor.
abstract: The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) was established in 2002 with a mandate to galvanize efforts by the public and private sectors to end malnutrition. GAIN launched its first large-scale fortification program in 2003, and in less than a decade has scaled its operations to reach more than 600 million people with nutritionally enhanced food. GAIN has evolved considerably as an organization, expanding beyond large-scale food fortification into new program areas, focusing on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and improvements in agricultural practices to enhance nutrition. This paper describes GAIN's evolution from a large-scale food fortification program focus to a broader nutrition program portfolio directed toward improving access and affordability of nutritious foods for the poor. As GAIN enters its second decade, it continues to respond to the challenges of a changing nutrition landscape by introducing new programs and novel partnerships and by refining its innovative program delivery models.
authors: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), P.O. Box 55, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. rmoenchpfanner@gainhealth.org
authors: Regina
authors: R
authors: Moench-Pfanner
authors: Marc
authors: M
authors: Van Ameringen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003906:Developing Countries; D005523:Food Supply; D005527:Food, Fortified; D006078:Government Programs / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011203:Poverty; D016730:Program Development; D055818:Public-Private Sector Partnerships