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Working with a team of eight trained data collectors, SPRING staff in Uganda conducted a midline assessment through key informant interviews with MNP users and distributors to inform efforts to strengthen micronutrient powder (MNP) distribution. Care...

To commemorate World Breastfeeding Week 2016, SPRING staff in Kyrgyz Republic and community leaders in the town of Kara Kul, held a community gathering that connected local health workers and families to raise awareness around the multiple benefits o...

A delegation of U.S. congressional staffers visited SPRING/Senegal programs on Tuesday, August 2, 2016, as part of a week-long tour of health programs in Senegal arranged by USAID and World Vision.The visitors represented the offices of Senators Rob ...

Around the world, countries are outlining ambitious new strategies for tackling nutrition through a multi-sectoral approach, yet there has been little evidence that these plans actually translate into better nutrition for women and children. On July ...

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) invited SPRING/Bangladesh to present on Farmer Nutrition Schools and its experience towards improved household nutrition at the Policies against Hunger XII conference. Hosted by BMEL, the conf...

SPRING has helped in bringing health care within reach for many families in Southern Bangladesh. Through its partnership with the USAID-DFID NGO Health Service Delivery Project (NHSDP), affectionately known as “Surjer Hashi”, SPRING is helping bring ...

Experts from across several sectors are meeting this week in Bangkok at the Asia regional Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy Global Learning & Evidence Exchange (MSN-GLEE) hosted by SPRING in partnership with USAID. This diverse group of USAID Mission...

US Ambassador Sheila Gwaltney visited the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Naryn Oblast of Kyrgyz Republic on June 8th and 9th.On June 8th, Ambassador Gwaltney toured a SPRING-supported district hospital that provides maternal and child nutrition s...

The SPRING/Mali program closed out on March 31, 2016, after 15 months of work in-country improving nutritional status of women and children, with special emphasis on building resilience in Mali’s Mopti region by treating and preventing undernutrition...

SPRING’s Food Security and Nutrition Director, Heather Danton, and SBCC Advisor, Phil Moses, traveled to Guinea in April to facilitate a week-long participatory workshop with partners from Winrock, Institut Superieur Agronomique et Vétérinaire (ISAV)...

The Agriculture Indicators Report illustrates SPRING/Mali’s achievements for our Feed the Future indicators. In January 2016, we sampled 127 of 5,500 Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) beneficiaries who had been trained in homestead food production. An im...

SPRING’s Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) case study provided analysis of Nepal’s financing for nutrition to the Nepali Delegation for the Public Finance for Nutrition in Asia (PF4N) workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, April 2016. The workshop, which wa...

SPRING released findings from the multi-sectoral Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) Case Study during a national event in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 20th, 2016. The National Planning Commission (NPC) chaired the event. There were over 60 participants ...

On April 16, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Alexis D’Agostino presented on SPRING’s nutrition budget analysis work at Unite for Sight’s Global Health & Innovation Conference (GHIC) in New Haven, Connecticut. Bringing together 2,200 professional...

SPRING attended the Micronutrient Task Team (MTT) Meeting in Accra, Ghana on February 17, 2016. The MTT is a multi-stakeholder group spearheaded by the Nutrition Department of the Family Health Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Micronutrien...

The regions in the north of Ghana have a high prevalence of anemia among children under five, and pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Recognizing the limited anemia screening capacity at Ghana Health Service (GHS) facilities, USAID, ...

Between March 28 and April 2 a team of evaluators from the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), UNICEF, and SPRING traveled to Kajuru local government areas (LGA), Kaduna State and conducted a mid-process assessment of the Community Infant and...

SPRING held three district-level dissemination events in Nepal to present results from the “Pathways to Better Nutrition” (PBN) Case Study, which focused on Nepal’s implementation of a National Nutrition Action Plan: The Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan (...

SPRING attended the East Africa Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (MSN-GLEE) in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania from March 8-10, 2016. The East Africa MSN-GLEE is one of four planned MSN-GLEEs through which USAID is rolling out a...

The inaugural meeting of Sierra Leone’s national anemia working group (NAWG) on February 4, 2016 included government representatives, local and international NGOs, UN partners, and donor staff. This multi-sectoral platform will identify, prioritize, ...

The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, took an informative tour of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) compound in Kasuliyili of the Tolon District in the Northern Region on March 31, 2016. This was the Ambassador’s firs...

The second annual Safollo Gatha, an event organized to celebrate the best practices of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) in health, population, and nutrition programs, was held on Thursday, March 27 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.The Behavior Cha...

In 2015, SPRING/Mali set an objective to integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into agriculture and nutrition-focused activities, through the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in 100 villages in the Mopti region. Recognizing th...

Uganda, like many other developing countries, suffers from a significant burden of iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiencies. Additionally, iron deficiency anaemia affects almost 50 percent of children between 6 – 23 months of age and 30 percent of wome...

During her presentation “Building Nutrition Capacity of Health Workers” at the 15th annual Global Health Mini-University, Dr. Sascha Lamstein, Technical Advisor and Team Lead for SPRING, presented on the critical role of the health workforce in impro...

Happy International Women’s Day!This awareness day has been celebrated in different ways around the world for over 100 years. While we’ve made significant progress during that time, barriers to gender equality still exist in many areas. This year at ...

Ms. Melissa Jones, director of the Office of Population, Health, Nutrition, and Education at USAID Bangladesh, and other representatives from the Mission visited a community clinic in Abhaynagar upazila on Thursday, February 25.They observed nutritio...

Sight and Life, a humanitarian nutrition think tank with the mission of eradicating malnutrition in women of reproductive age and in their children, and improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable populations, recently published a blog co-writ...

In February 2016, SPRING/Mali distributed 11,000 moringa, 2,750 papaya, and 2,750 baobab tree saplings to Farmer Nutrition Schools (FNS) beneficiaries. Each FNS beneficiary received two moringa saplings, and one papaya or baobab sampling. The sapling...

Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister worked closely with the Ministry of Health (MOH), IBFAN Uganda, and other partners to host the 9th IFBAN Africa Regional Conference, which attracted approximately 283 participants from 14 African countries.With a...

During three dissemination events in Uganda, SPRING, USAID’s global nutrition project, presented findings from its Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) Study. This study, which took place from 2013 to 2015, provides a time-series view of changes in pla...

On January 13, 2016, SPRING/Bangladesh facilitated a day-long workshop to orient UNICEF Bangladesh to SPRING’s agriculture to nutrition pathways. The event focused both on the theoretical framework and the practical application of using the pathways ...

SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic hosted six gender-sensitive nutrition workshops in three regions of the country from November 25-30, 2015. Participants included 121 women and 37 men, 27 grandmothers, and 5 grandfathers among them.Designed to raise awareness a...

SPRING, USAID's Bureau for Food Security, and Bureau for Global Health hosted the Multi-sectoral Nutrition Strategy Global Learning & Evidence Exchange (MSN-GLEE), West Africa from January 19 to 21, 2016, in Accra, Ghana. Staff from the USAID Bureau ...

The Government of Sierra Leone disseminated its nationally-representative, comprehensive micronutrient survey (2013 SLMS (PDF, 3.6 MB)) on December 3, 2015 with approximately 50 government, partner, and donor staff participating. The survey was condu...

At the close of the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project’s fourth year of implementation, the project continued to reach a growing number of people with nutrition interventions in SPRING’s seven ...

Recently, Dr. Jane Aceng, the Director General Health Services, launched the home fortification program in Uganda at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala. The new program follows the National Infant and Young Child Feeding Guidelines by addressing mi...

SPRING recently conducted a nutrition assessment in Guinea to contribute to post Ebola virus disease (EVD) response efforts. Before the Ebola outbreak, Guinea faced chronically high levels of undernutrition and food insecurity. About 26 percent of ch...

USAID/Bangladesh and the Department of Environmental Science and Management of North South University organized a workshop on 18 November 2015 to celebrate GIS Day. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness about the significance of geographic ...

To contribute to post Ebola outbreak response efforts, SPRING recently accompanied ACDI/VOCA’s Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project team during its value chain analysis fieldwork in Guinea. Over the course of the assessment, SPRING provide...

Today, more people have access to mobile phones than to toilets, according to the WHO. While this may sound unbelievable, it is a daily reality for the 2.4 billion people without adequate sanitation. To highlight this lack, the SPRING project is part...

The Prime Minister of Uganda, Rt. Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, launched Uganda’s Nutrition Advocacy and Communication (NA&C) Strategy during the 6th edition of the Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security held at Munyonyo Resort Hotel in Kampala. The NA&...

The 2014 Global Nutrition Report emphasized the need for sufficient financial resources for nutrition and pointed out the importance of countries being able to track nutrition funding. One year after, 30 countries were able to report on the prelimina...

The SPRING/Haiti program closed out on October 13, 2015, after three years of nutrition programming work in-country. Participants at the closing ceremony in Port-au-Prince applauded the SPRING/Haiti team for its efforts, which were focused primarily ...

Bangladeshi television channel Desh TV airs a public health show called ‘Jiboner Golpo’ (Life’s Story) in partnership with USAID and Voice of America. SPRING/Bangladesh was recently invited to participate in the latest episode to discuss the importan...

Bangladesh has seen a surge in the number of Internet users, but for many people in the country, the use of Internet is limited to Facebook. With this in mind, SPRING/Bangladesh has launched its own Facebook page. This will further strengthen the pro...

Global Handwashing Day, celebrated every year on October 15th, is dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. A recent...

UPDATE - February 12, 2015 All 10 of the community-led videos SPRING/Digital Green’s collaborative work produced in for Niger’s Maradi Region are now available here.Working with Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel-Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-E...

Sisimpur is the Bangladeshi version of the popular children’s television series Sesame Street. Funded by USAID and airing in Bangladesh since 2005, the series is in its ninth season. One of the few initiatives that focuses on preschool education, Sis...

In July, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Uganda and SPRING/Uganda hosted a high-level delegation from Ethiopia to learn more about Uganda’s experience implementing mandatory food fortification. Uganda’s MOH with help from the National Working Group o...