GAIN: Water analysis clarification note

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GAIN: Water analysis clarification note

10:41 CAT | 18 Jul 2017

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an international non-governmental organisation based in Switzerland and represented in Mozambique since 2011. GAIN conducts activities in Mozambique as one of the main partners in the nutrition sector, mobilising public-private partnerships and providing technical and financial assistance to improve access to safe and nutritious food, including fortified foods, for communities most vulnerable to malnutrition.

In less than a decade since its inception, GAIN has expanded its operations, working with governments and international agencies through projects involving more than 600 private companies and organisations in more than 30 countries around the world. GAIN’s activities reach over one billion people and provide access to safe and nutritious food, including fortified foods.

On July 13, 2017, an article was published on the quality of water consumed in Mozambique, where numerical data were presented referring to a study attributed to GAIN. This note serves to clarify that the evidence in this study does not belong to the organization, nor was the information collected or shared by GAIN National Director, Katia dos Santos Dias.

GAIN has never conducted or promoted a study relating to the quality of water consumed in Mozambique. The organisation’s main objective is specifically the area of nutrition and food quality and safety, and increased access to nutritious food.

The statement made by the National Director of GAIN was within the scope of the presentation of the capacity assessment report of the Waters and Foods of Maputo, Beira and Nampula, organised by the Ministry of Health and supported by GAIN.

As part of its action plan for food safety and quality, GAIN has supported the provision of training to laboratory technicians as a way of enhancing the role of laboratories in monitoring and controlling food safety, so combating chronic malnutrition in Mozambique.

Meetings and training have been organised in a specific framework for laboratory monitoring of food quality. In the context of the search for more nutritious food, periodic analysis of food, including fortified products, needs to be intensified.

Source: GAIN