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The photo-to-illustration (PTI) process allows graphic artists to use photographs from the community as a reference to develop high-quality illustrations which are technically accurate, culturally acceptable, and attractive to audiences. These illust...

“Using community video is like having a demonstration plot in every village.” This quote from one of SPRING’s partners in Guinea helped set the tone for a learning event that SPRING/Guinea held on July 17 in Conakry in collaboration with partners Dig...

At the ICTforAg 2017 conference, SPRING presented aspects of its social behavior change communication programming in Guinea. Phil Moses, SBCC Technical Advisor, shared how SPRING has developed video production units in Faranah and Mamou, Guinea that ...

In April 2017, SPRING/Guinea and Farm Radio International (FRI) led trainings in Mamou and Faranah for four local community radio stations on how to develop effective interactive radio programming to support the uptake of nutrition-sensitive agricult...

In April 2017, SPRING/Guinea tested and refined a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training package that will be integrated into a broader agro-preneur program curriculum for use by the Feed the Future-funded Strengthening Market-Led Agricultural Rese...

In February 2017, SPRING/Guinea and Farm Radio International (FRI) conducted a radio assessment in support of the USAID-funded Strengthening Market-Led Agriculture Research, Technology, and Education (SMARTE) program. The SPRING/FRI assessment identi...

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)...

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 ...

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...

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...

Nutrition is a key focus area for Peace Corps/Guinea’s Feed the Future program, making a collaboration between Peace Corps/Guinea and SPRING a natural fit. SPRING provided support to implement and monitor nutrition and nutrition-sensitive interventio...

SPRING is collaborating with the United States Peace Corps’ Office of Program and Training Support, the West Africa Food Security Partnership (WAFSP), and selected Peace Corps countries to implement nutrition interventions in the West Africa sub-regi...