Global Malnutrition Initiative

The Global Malnutrition Initiative (GMI) is Save the Children’s innovative approach to treating and preventing child wasting within fragile and conflicted affected countries where children are most at risk. We’re achieving this by empowering local communities to be able to prevent and manage malnutrition by increasing access to much-needed treatment closer to home, including the early detection and treatment of malnutrition by community health workers (CHWs). The initiative involves an important research element, generating evidence to address knowledge gaps and inform policy change at the national and global levels.