Learning Aims to Strengthen Global Nutrition Interventions for Higher Impact

On 9 October 2012, the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) launched a five-year partnership with local industry that will reach approximately 27 million Kenyans with nutritionally fortified wheat flour, vegetable oil and maize meal.

The effort, which supports Kenya’s 2030 Vision for development, will reduce widespread prevalence of vitamin and mineral deficiencies including among vulnerable groups such as children and mothers particularly among vulnerable groups such as children and mothers.

Project to Support Ministry of Public Health’s Nutrition Action Framework

The Uganda Food Consumption Survey was undertaken to provide the critical body of evidence that policy makers and program designers need to make informed decisions about effective investments to reduce deficiencies of vitamins and minerals in Uganda. Such decisions will result in substantial contributions to efforts being made to assist Ugandans in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

The survey itself was carried out in one urban and two rural regions of Uganda in 2008 to more fully characterize

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