GNIP

WHAT’S GNIP?
GNIPとは

Ghana Nutrition Improvement Project、略してGNIP。
ガーナ共和国では、2－3歳児の約3割が、発育阻害の問題を抱えています。このプロジェクトは、最初の1000日（胎児から2歳の誕生日まで）に十分な栄養を摂れないことによる失われた成長は、その後取り戻せないという課題の解決を目指して、取り組んでいます。財団単独では解決できない複雑な課題に対し、ガーナ、日本を中心とした産官学民連携による持続可能なソーシャルビジネスの確立により、栄養改善を実現するモデルの構築を進めています。

Ghana Nutrition Improvement Project, or GNIP for short. In the Republic of Ghana, approximately 30% of 2-3 years old children suffer from stunting problems. This project is working to solve the problem of lost growth due to inadequate nutrition in the first 1000 days (from the pregnancy of mevidence to the second birthday), which cannot be reversed afterwards.
In response to this complex issue, which cannot be solved by our foundation alone, we are building a model to improve nutrition by establishing a sustainable social business through collaboration among industry, government, academia, and the private sector, mainly in Ghana and Japan.

3分でわかるGNIP、KOKO Plus®について
Introduction of GNIP & “KOKO PlusⓇ” in 3 minutes

KOKO Plus Foundation

現地事業の詳しい情報については、こちらをご覧ください。

HISTORYプロジェクトの歩み

ガーナ栄養改善プロジェクト(GNIP)の背景と歴史および官民連携の経緯をご紹介しています。

Project Background and History

EVIDENCEGNIP関連エビデンス

離乳食に混ぜて摂取できる栄養サプリメント「KOKO PlusⓇ」。その栄養効果のみならず、受益者の栄養知識と行動変容、官民連携パートナーシップに至るまで、活動を通して幅広く構築され、論文化された知見を公開しています。

KOKO PlusⓇ , a nutritional supplement that can be mixed with complementary food. Various knowledge through the project, not only its nutritional efficacy, but also the behavior change of the beneficiaries, as well as public-private partnerships, have been extensively developed and published through our activities. Here are the lists of the publicatons.

「KOKO PlusⓇ」栄養効果
  1. Improving complementary feeding in Ghana: reaching the vulnerable through innovative business – the case of KOKO Plus (2014)
  2. Optimization of the nutrient content and protein quality of cereal–legume blends for use as complementary foods in Ghana (2014)
  3. Role of Protein and Amino Acids in Infant and Young Child Nutrition: Considerations for the Development and Delivery of High Quality Complementary Food Supplements (2015)
  4. Effect of a macro and micronutrient fortified complementary food supplement (KOKO Plus) on linear growth of children 18 months of age in Ghana (2016)
  5. A macro- and micro-nutrient fortified complementary food supplement reduced acute infection, improved hemoglobin and showed a dose response effect in improving linear growth: a 12 month cluster randomized trial (2019)
  6. Development and Sensory Shelf-Life Testing of KOKO Plus: A Food Supplement for Improving the Nutritional Profiles of Traditional Complementary Foods (2019)
栄養効果関連論文
  1. Effect of lysine supplementation on health and morbidity in subjects belonging to poor peri-urban households in Accra, Ghana (2010)
  2. Fostering reflective trust between mothers and community health nurses to improve the effectiveness of health and nutrition efforts: An ethnographic study in Ghana, West Africa (2016)
  3. Effect of the provision of a macro- and micro-nutrient fortified complementary food supplement on nutritional status of Ghanaian infants (2017)
  4. Changes of Plasma Amino Acid Profiles in Infants With a Nutrient-Fortified Complementary Food Supplement: Evidence From a 12-Month Single-Blind Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial (2021)
  1. Assessing Program Coverage of Two Approaches to Distributing a Complementary Feeding Supplement to Infants and Young Children in Ghana (2016)
  2. Satoru Okonogi, Takeshi Sakurai, and Reginald Adjetey Annan (2020) Improving Infant Nutrition through the Market: Experimental Evidence in Ghana, Working Paper No. 20-F-01, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Tokyo.(2020)
パートナーシップ
  1. Benhayoune, S., and Y. Toride (2022) “Ghana Nutrition Improvement Project: Co-designing a P.ACT to Tackle Infant Malnutrition.”
ソーシャルビジネスの持続化
  1. 横山恵子（2019）「BOP事業とコーポレート・ソーシャル・アントレプレナーシップ─ソーシャルビジネスと正当化行動の視座」『組織科学』53(2)：57-70。
  2. Hitotsubashi Business Review 2012　2号　ビジネスケース『味の素 - ～栄養改善をめざしたBOP市場への参入』
  3. Hitotsubashi Business Review 2023 Spr　味の素ファンデーション　ソーシャルビジネスで挑む子どもの栄養改善