Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Presentation 2022

Global Alliance for
Improved Nutrition
Ambika Thapa
Overview of Organisation
 The organization is a private, not-for-profit agency
which deals with the area of improving nutrition in
people around the world.
 They have global presence with headquarters in
Geneva, Switzerland. It has offices in USA, Europe,
Indonesia, India, Africa and Canada with projects all
over the world.
 The organization GAIN visualizes the countries to
be free of malnutrition. It organizes partnerships
with public and private companies to promote the
well-being of the population. This partnership helps
in proper delivery of nutritious goods to the large
masses of population.
 The primary focus of the organization is on the
project, “Improving children’s diet” in the continent
of Africa. It plans on reducing the rate of stunting
that has been observed in the children in Africa. A
similar kind of project is implemented in Haiti,
Rwanda, Kazakhstan and Mali. In addition to this,
GAIN also provides support to the working people
with proper education on the benefits of including a
balance diet
 In addition to this, there is another project titled,
“Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)”, which determines the
importance of the investment done in nutrition by
the people in the developing countries (Lie, 2019).
Contribution to the Common Good
The organization has contributed in enhancing the diet of
the children in the world by doing a common good and
placing nutrition as a integral part of the global health.
Their program, Improving children’s diet, focuses on
advocacy to incorporate necessary nutrients in the diet of
the children to improve their overall nutrition ("Improving
Children’s Diets - Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition",
2019).
It provides education to the population on the importance
of micronutrients and balanced diet for a proper bone and
brain development. It also exercises enhanced efforts for
advocacy of these programs worldwide for raising
substantial funds for the project.
The institutional meals will provide the children with the
necessary nutritious food for a better muscle and nutrition
development.
GAIN puts effort in acknowledging the requirement of
specific nutrients that have been missing from the diets of
the children. This gap in nutrient delivery is met by
creating a demand for nutrient-dense foods and products
by sustainable delivery channels.
GAIN has recently been granted a US$20 million grant from
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to initiate a Nutrition
Program in the developing countries. It will address the
problem of poor nutrition to the people of the developing
countries by making them available to the global market of
fortified foods.
Health care professionals, nurses, financial advisors and
advocates are recruited by the foundation to promote the
well-being of the population and gather funds for the
programmes.
My Professional Contribution
 As a nurse, I will be providing assistance to GAIN
in educating the children and their parents on the
importance of nutrition in physical development.
 I can be a part of the community health centres
that are organised by GAIN to promote nutrition
by creating presentations. These presentations
will help the people grasp the information quicker
and make them interested in incorporating them
in their daily lifestyles.
 During the bachelor of nursing, I have been a part
of many philanthropic events and charities whose
main focus was to provide the people with the
awareness of many diseases.
 Because of my experience in associating with a
number of charities, it is easier to contact them
and arrange for funds to organize events for
GAIN.
 Assessment of the current nutrition status of the
family will help in analysing the nutrition
demands of the individual and providing a
nutritional health education programme.
 Creating awareness among the public by making
them understand the importance of the nutrition
in proper brain and body development of an
individual.
References
• Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, (2019). Retrieved
16 August 2019, from https://www.gainhealth.org/
• Improving Children’s Diets - Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition. (2019). Retrieved 16 August 2019, from
https://www.gainhealth.org/programs/improving-childrens-
diets/
• Lie, A. L. (2019). Power in Global Nutrition Governance: A
Critical Analysis of the Establishment of the Scaling Up
Nutrition (SUN) Partnership.
Global Governance: A Review
of Multilateralism and International Organizations,
25(2),
277-303.
Introduction
 This poster will be focusing on how I and
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
will promote the importance of healthier food
choices globally (Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition, 2019).
 GAIN was launched in the year 2002 at the UN
to tackle malnutrition.
 The focus areas of GAIN is to make the public
aware of the impact of stunting, diversity of
the diet and the deficiency of the
micronutrients in children and their parents.
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2019