UNCC300 Assignment 1: Poster on GAIN and Global Health Initiatives

This poster assignment focuses on the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a non-profit organization working to improve nutrition worldwide. The assignment, completed for the UNCC300 course, details GAIN's mission, which involves partnerships with public and private entities to deliver nutritious goods, particularly focusing on improving children's diets and reducing stunting in Africa and other developing countries. The poster highlights GAIN's contribution to the common good through advocacy, education, and providing nutritious food, with a recent grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to address malnutrition. The assignment also includes the student's professional contribution as a nurse, offering to educate families on nutrition through community health centers and leveraging past philanthropic experience to secure funds for GAIN's projects. The references include GAIN's website and a relevant academic article, providing context to GAIN's global impact and approach to addressing nutritional challenges.

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