Appendix Table 1.

Projects in the GAAP2 portfolio

Project acronym	Project name	Implementer and evaluator	Project modality/goal	Project objective	Project approach
South Asia/Bangladesh
ANGeL	Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages	Ministry of Agriculture (Bangladesh) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)	Crops/Nutrition	To pilot alternative approaches to integrating agriculture, nutrition, and women's empowerment, the most effective of which will be scaled up.	Provide training on three approaches in different combinations: facilitating production of nutrient-rich food, conducting high-quality behavior change communication (BCC), and undertaking gender sensitization activities. All trainings delivered to husbands and wives jointly
AVC	Impact Evaluation of the Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chains Program	Development Alternatives International (DAI) and IFPRI	Crops/Income and nutrition	To increase agricultural output and income, and improve food and nutrition security through strengthened agricultural value chains	Conduct trainings to build farmers' capacity in using improved seed varieties and cultivation practices along with basic training on gender and nutrition issues and provision of promotional discounts on fertilizer and seeds to incentivize adoption
FAARM	Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition	Helen Keller International (HKI) and University of Heidelberg	Crops and livestock/Nutrition	To reduce undernutrition among women and young children through a food-based dietary diversification strategy and to increase the status of women within the household	Intervention based on HKI's enhanced homestead food production model involves training rural women's groups in vegetable gardening, fruit tree production, and poultry rearing, along with nutrition and hygiene
TRAIN	Targeting and Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition	BRAC and IFPRI	Crops and livestock/Nutrition	To increase the dietary diversity of poor rural producers by 1) increasing the diversity of crops grown and income generated; 2) improving child feeding, health, and sanitation practices using BCC; and 3) empowering women by facilitating greater control over agricultural income and its allocation toward health and nutrition as well as sensitizing husbands to support wives in productive and reproductive tasks.	Using a randomized controlled trial, assess the impact of incorporating agricultural interventions to promote production, production diversity and income-generation into a strong state-of-the-art maternal and child health and nutrition BCC platform
South Asia/India
WINGS	Women Improving Nutrition through Group-Based Strategies	Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), Public Health Resource Society (PHRS), and IFPRI	Crops and livestock/Nutrition	To improve women's and children's diets and nutrition outcomes through increasing own consumption and income Existing SHG platform has women's empowerment objectives	Uses existing women's self-help groups to deliver BCC and training on nutrition-sensitive agricultural planning, and works with the community and public systems/institutions to ensure that services of public health and nutrition programs are available and accessible in the project area
South Asia/Nepal
Heifer	Empowerment, Resilience, and Livestock Transfers	Heifer International and Montana State University	Livestock/Income and nutrition	To increase income, food security and nutrition, and women's empowerment, and improve aspirations, hope, and economic resilience among the chronically poor by building physical, human, and social capital	Provides women with livestock transfers and training related to nutrition, home gardening, and livestock management; forms self-help groups through which women receive empowerment training
West Africa/Burkina Faso
Grameen Foundation	Building Resilience of Vulnerable Communities in Burkina Faso	Grameen Foundation and Brigham Young University	Crops and livestock/Income and nutrition	To increase the resilience of vulnerable communities in disaster-affected regions by building women's economic empowerment, and to strengthen women's capacity to make decisions about children's nutrition	Uses community-based women's savings groups as a sustainable platform for improving livelihoods through training, education on agriculture as a business, linkages to agricultural services, financing for common agricultural activities, nutrition education, and gender dialogues
SELEVER	Soutenir l’Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l’Elevage des Volailles et Valoriser l’Economie Rural (Women's Poultry Program to Improve Income and Nutrition)	Agribusiness Systems International, AfricSanté, and IFPRI	Livestock/Nutrition and income	To increase poultry production and improve the nutritional status of women and children in the Centre-Ouest, Hauts-Bassins and Boucle de Mouhoun regions of Burkina Faso	Uses an integrated market-facilitation approach combining revenue generation, women's empowerment, and nutritional behavior change interventions
West Africa/Ghana
iDE	Small-Scale Irrigation and Women's Empowerment in Northern Ghana	iDE and IFPRI	Crops/Income and nutrition	To expand production of food during the lean season and reduce production risks during rainy seasons through small-scale irrigation, which will increase income, food security, nutrition, and health	Provides women access to motor pumps along with training, access to credit, and other agricultural inputs
West Africa/Mali
WorldVeg	Integrated home garden project	World Vegetable Center	Crops/Income and nutrition	To improve nutritional status and dietary diversity by increasing vegetable production and consumption	Integrated home garden project—combining training in gardening with nutrition behavior change communication and training in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
East Africa/Ethiopia
JP-RWEE	UN Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in Ethiopia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)	Crops and livestock/Income and nutrition	To reduce gender inequalities in pastoralist communities related to access to resources, credit, and financial services to improve household food security, women's decision making within the household, and women's participation in the community	Interventions include strengthening associations and cooperatives to offer financial products to women farmers, providing credit to women farmers, and giving women financial literacy and entrepreneurship training
East Africa/Kenya
MoreMilk	MoreMilk: Making the most of milk	International Livestock Research Institute	Livestock/Income and nutrition	To enhance milk safety and child nutrition in peri-urban Nairobi	Training milk traders to improve their milk handling and business practices
East Africa/Tanzania
Maisha Bora	Evaluation of Women's Food Security Program for Impoverished Maasai Households	Savannas Forever and University of Minnesota	Livestock/Income and nutrition	To increase food security of semi pastoralist communities through a more diversified and secure income from improvements in livestock	Builds capacity of pastoralists' organizations to provide entrepreneurship training, business skills training, and advocacy for women; forms savings and credit groups and women-only farms; provides training on household budgeting and gender awareness