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Photo of the three SPRING team members posing together.
June 2018
The CORE Group’s annual Global Health Practitioner Conference was held June 4th – 7th, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland. This year, the conference was centered on the theme “Community Health Action for the Humanitarian-Development Nexus.” Three SPRING staf...
Photo of a group filming a community video.
February 2018
SPRING’s community-led video approach to improve nutrition in Niger and Burkina Faso received over 6,000 votes in Zilient’s 2017 Resilience Awards, earning it a third place finish among over 40 submissions.SPRING worked with key populations in the Af...
MSN-GLEE banner
January 2016
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 ...
Man demonstrates how to wash a child's hands
October 2015
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...
Group watching a video projected on the wall
April 2015
Building on its successful collaboration with Digital Green in Odisha, India, SPRING is integrating nutrition into community videos produced and screened in 20 villages in the Maradi Region of Niger. Since January 2015, SPRING and Digital Green have ...
Local Voices for Change: Community Radio to Improve Nutrition in Burkina Faso
February 2015
In recent years, droughts and other shocks in Africa's Sahel region have drawn attention to the urgent need to strengthen the ability of communities to cope in challenging and changing natural environments. However, despite decades of programming exp...