Our impacts and achievements
Since the creation of the adolescent nutrition ‘interest group’ in 2017, and the more recent evolution into the GANN in 2022, we have:
- Helped bring the neglected issue of adolescent nutrition to the attention of national and international policymakers, programmers, and researchers
- Spotlighted the work of individual governments, researchers, and programs, at national level
- Helped author the 2022 Lancet Series on adolescent nutrition as well as other important academic research articles
- Identified research gaps and created a ‘research road map’ for the next 10 years
- Supported important advances in the sector such as the addition of weekly iron and folic acid supplements (WIFAS) to the WHO essential medicines list, the creation of new indicators for adolescent health by the WHO GAMA, and amendments to Demographic and Health surveys (DHS) to better capture data on adolescent nutritional status
- Co-created a special issue of FEX with the support of Youth Advisors from Act4Food
For more details on what we and our network achieved in 2023, see our end of year ‘wrap up’.
Interventions
Effective multisectoral interventions that support nutrition are implemented nationally and regionally to optimise the nutritional status of children and adolescents from 5 to 19 years of age.
Targets
Global targets with indicators are set for nutrition during middle childhood and adolescence, and are monitored through global and national surveys.
Policies
National government policies are strengthened to support optimal nutrition during middle childhood and adolescence.
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GANN
The vision of the Global Adolescent Nutrition Network (GANN) is that every adolescent from 10 to 19 years of age is nutritionally supported and afforded opportunities for optimal health and nutrition despite past nutritional challenges.
