Every year, one hundred million people fall below the poverty line due to illness. Malnutrition is responsible for half of infant mortality and generates negative impacts for one out of every two children through to adulthood. It is both the cause and the consequence of poverty and under-development.
In order to break the vicious circle of malnutrition-illness-poverty, GRET works to improve the health of vulnerable populations by focusing on six pillars: provision of quality local fortified food products in partnership with the local private sector; awareness-raising on appropriate feeding, maternal & child health and family planning practices; improvement of the quality of health services via strengthening of community health systems; development of social health protection schemes; support for the definition and implementation of national public policies on nutrition, community health and social health protection; and support for the implementation of nutrition-sensitive activities.
GRET has been working in the health sector for 25 years, more specifically in maternal and child health. With the Nutridev programme, developed with IRD since 1994, GRET works on long-term prevention of malnutrition by improving feeding, hygiene and healthcare practices, mainly with women of childbearing age and children under the age of two.
Since 1997, it has also been deploying social health protection systems to protect people with low incomes against the risk of expenditure on healthcare, which is a real poverty trap. In contributing to universal healthcare coverage policies, the objective is to facilitate and extend social health protection to populations not covered by the traditional systems and to vulnerable populations in the formal sector.
GRET conducts actions in the field, in particular facilitating the link between the community and basic healthcare structures.
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Enhancing livelihood, income generation and resilience of the vulnerable population in South Chin and North Rakhine (Myanmar)
Myanmar | 01/10/2016 - 30/09/2020Chin and Rakhine States are identified as very vulnerable States in Myanmar, weakened by frequent disasters and confronted to major local challenges. GRET and its partners are implementing an integrated and connected project in 3 Townships of Union ...
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Résanut |
Améliorer la résilience des populations vulnérables en matière de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle
Mauritania | 01/04/2014 - 31/03/2017Dans le Guidimakha, en Mauritanie, les crises alimentaires et nutritionnelles sont récurrentes. Malgré de fortes potentialités agricoles, la zone peine à couvrir ses besoins alimentaires de base et la vulnérabilité de la population face aux chocs climatiques, aux ...
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Nutrikhmer |
Project to Improve Infant Nutrition in Cambodia
Cambodia | 01/01/2011 - 02/03/2014In Cambodia, infant malnutrition affects more than 44% of children under the age of five. Growth retardation and anaemia are closely linked to food quality. Nutrikhmer (a component of the Nutridev programme) contains diverse activities that take advantage ...
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PDL-SLS |
Local Development in Saint-Louis du Sud, Haïti (en)
Haiti | 08/07/2010 - 30/06/2015Saint-Louis du Sud, a semi-rural commune with a population of 75,000, suffers from failing essential services and a lack of infrastructures for its economic development. In the field of drinking water and sanitation, GRET strengthened the Saint- Louis ...
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SHSP TA |
Technical Assistance to Support to Health Sector Project in Lao PDR
Laos | 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2012This technical assistance is running since september 2008 in partnership with the Swiss Red Cross and the Lao Consulting Group with the objective of supporting the Ministry of Health in the implementation of a support to health sector ...
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Nutrifaso |
Malnutrition Reduction Programme in Burkina Faso, a Component of the GRET/IRD Nutridev Programme
Burkina Faso | 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2017The Nutrifaso programme’s objective is to sustainably fight infant malnutrition. Its intervention strategy is based on two priority lines of work: raise the awareness of and train populations in proper food practices, and support the production and sale ...
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Nutrimad-Androy |
Support Programme to Reduce Food Insecurity in South Madagascar’s Androy Region
Madagascar | 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2008The Androy region is particularly subject to food insecurity. The inhabitants are very dependent on climactic events. The Nutrimad-Androy project aims to improve living conditions in this region in order to reduce malnutrition among the most vulnerable po ...
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UNFPA Health |
Strengthening Access to Health Care in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Haiti | 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2007GRET is in charge of one component of a health care program financed by the European Union and implemented by the UNFPA. This component consists of improving health care access conditions, notably when it comes to reducing maternal ...
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Improving complementary food for children 6-23 months in the Community-Based Nutrition Project
Madagascar | 01/01/1999 - 31/12/2006This action-research intervention aims to strengthen the activities undertaken in the framework of UNICEF’s community-based nutrition project in various rural areas of Madagascar. It aims to improve complementary food for children from 6 months to 24 months, a crucial period ...
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Nutrimad - volet urbain |
Improving Household Practices and Infant Nutrition in the Urban Municipality of Antananarivo, a Component of the GRET/IRD Nutridev Programme
Madagascar | 01/01/1997 - 31/12/2006Improving young children's nutrition during the weaning period seems to be the key element in the struggle against infant malnutrition which chronically affects more than 50% of young children in Antananarivo. This is why the project undertook a ...
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Les organisations paysannes et la nutrition
Retour d’expériences du projet Sara en Moyenne-Guinée et en Guinée forestière
| Éditions du Gret | 2021 | Cahier Projet
La Guinée dispose d’importantes ressources naturelles et potentialités en termes de surfaces cultivables, de réserves hydriques et de richesses minières. En dépit de cela, la pauvreté reste importante et l’économie du pays demeure fragile. Les systèmes de production ...
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Renforcer la consommation d’aliments fortifiés pour lutter contre la malnutrition
Retour d’expériences du Programme de fortification alimentaire pour les populations vulnérables à Madagascar (2017-2021)
| Éditions du Gret | 2021 | Cahier Projet
À Madagascar, la malnutrition demeure largement répandue, en particulier chez les femmes et les enfants. Associée notamment à un risque de retard de croissance et de développement cognitif chez l’enfant, la malnutrition chronique, moins visible et plus oubliée ...
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Pratiques d’alimentation et de soins des femmes enceintes et des jeunes enfants à Nevers
Etude des quartiers Baratte-Coulis et Bords de Loire
| Éditions du Gret | 2018/07 | Comprendre, agir et partager | 02
Réalisée dans le cadre d’une expertise confiée au Gret par la Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso, et menée en collaboration avec l’association Les Acteurs solidaires en marche (Asem), cette étude sociologique s’intéresse aux pratiques d’alimentation et de soins ...
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Technical assistance to support the first steps of a social business
| Gret | 2018/05 | Cahier Projet
Chronic malnutrition affects 50 % of Malagasy children1 aged between 6 and 24 months, i.e. 900,000 children. Less visible than acute malnutrition, it causes developmental delays (size, cognitive development) and undermines health. The sequels are irreversible after the ...
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Se nourrir et être enfant au Burkina Faso
A la croisée de savoirs anthropologiques et nutritionnels dans la boucle du Mouhoun
| Éditions du Gret | 2018 | Comprendre, agir et partager | 03
Réalisée à l’occasion d’un master en sciences sociales appliquées à l’alimentation, cette étude croise les approches nutritionnelles avec celles de la socio-anthropologie de l’alimentation et s’intéresse aux pratiques alimentaires du jeune enfant burkinabè en zone rurale. Menée dans ...
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Cambodia : Health protection for workers
| International Labour Organisation - Social protection floors in action brief series | 2018
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Adding amylase to fortified blended foods can improve energy density, and increase child's energy and nutrient intake. The efficacy of this strategy is unknown for the World Food Programme's Super Cereal Plus (SC+) and ...
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L’élevage occupe une place fondamentale dans les pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, avec un effectif régional de bovins estimé à plus de 65 millions de têtes, plus de 200 millions d’ovins et caprins, et 2,6 millions de camelins. Faisant ...
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Pour un soutien ambitieux à la filière « lait local » en Afrique de l’Ouest
| Gret | 2016/11 | Politiques et Pratiques de développement
Le lait et les produits laitiers font l’objet d’une consommation croissante en Afrique de l’Ouest, avec une demande soutenue par la croissance démographique et une évolution des habitudes alimentaires (même si le niveau de consommation est encore bas ...
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Améliorer la prise en compte de la nutrition dans les projets de développement rural et de santé
| AFD | 2016/02 | Notes techniques | 13
La lutte contre la malnutrition constitue un enjeu majeur de développement, longtemps négligé. C’est pourquoi la France, aux côtés de nombreux autres bailleurs, a pris des engagements internationaux pour lutter contre lamalnutrition. Contrairement à certaines idées reçues, ...
Enseignement/recherche
Institut de médecine tropicale d’Anvers (IMT) (Belgique) ; Center of Evaluation for Global Action, Berkeley (Etats-Unis) ; Basis, Domrei Research and Consulting, (Cambodge) ; IRD, Iedes - Paris I (France) ; Institut national de santé publique et communautaire (INSPC), Institut Supérieur de technologie (IST), Université d’Antananarivo (Madagascar).
Institutions publiques et collectivités locales
Pam, Unicef, ministères de la Santé et institutions sanitaires des pays d’intervention, Direction de la nutrition (Burkina Faso), National Social Security Fund - NSSF et ministère du Travail et de la Formation Professionnelle (Cambodge) ;Conseil national de nutrition, Office national de Nutrition (Madagascar).
Opérateurs/ONG/Bureaux d’études
WHH (Allemagne) ; Association burkinabé des unités Misola (Abum) (Burkina Faso) ; CRS (Etats-Unis) ; ACF, CIDR, Solidarité Bretagne Cambodge (France) ; ONG Asos (Madagascar) ; ANED (Association nutrition et développement), ONG Au Secours (Mauritanie) ; Croix Rouge Suisse.
Organisations professionnelles, groupements, organisations paysannes
GMAC (Garment Manufacturer Association of Cambodia).
Collectifs et Réseaux
Réseau d’expert en micro-assurance du BIT, Groupes de travail du Microinsurance Network, Commission Santé et développement de Coordination SUD.
Entreprises
PPM (Cambodge), Taf (Madagascar), Gold power (Myanmar), Unités Misola (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger), 17 PME produisant des farines infantiles et autres aliments fortifiés (Burkina Faso)
