Global Diet Quality Project

Direct beneficiaries: national policy- and decision makers, UN organisations and nutrition community

End beneficiaries: consumers all over the world 

The main outcomes are the following:

Outcome 1: Nutritional or related surveys capture valid diet quality data with minimal cost and effort

Outcome 2: Nutrition, health, and agricultural policies and programmes are informed by diet quality data.

Resultados previstos:  

1) Diet quality questionnaires (DQ-Q) for 92 countries

2) Nationally-representative diet quality data in 40 countries

3) 5 country briefings to disseminate findings in 5 countries

4) a user-friendly web portal

Resultados de las fases anteriores:   Key results of the entry phase include the convening of a highly competent global Technical Advisory Group (TAG) including world-leading nutrition researchers and representatives from U.N. organizations, governmental and non-governmental agencies for identifying the potential to develop an internationally standardized, easy-to-implement survey instrument. Key dimensions of diets that need to be measured (i.e. nutrient adequacy and diets that protect health against non-communicable diseases) were determined and new indicators to measure health-protective diets were developed. A diet quality survey module was developed, pre-tested and piloted. First data was collected in Brazil, Ghana and Tanzania as part of the Gallup World Poll 2018 and 2019 and first results from Ghana and Tanzania has been published in the latest SOFI report 2020.

Project partners: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Gallup Organization Ldt.

Other projects and partners:

GAIN’s Making Markets Work for Nutrition Programme

FAO; WHO; World Committee on Food Security;

SDC’s bilateral programmes to prevent and control non-communicable diseases

Fase 1 01.08.2017 - 31.12.2022   (Completed)