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Nearly 100 people attended SPRING/Uganda’s close out and legacy event to celebrate the project’s five-year journey to achieve results in nutrition. Participants included representatives from the USAID/Uganda Mission, officials from different ministri...

SPRING/Uganda presented on the current status of maize milling nationwide and the way forward for millers who would like to fortify during a dialogue and dissemination event attended by more than 40 stakeholders. During this one-day meeting, millers ...

For the last two years, SPRING/Uganda chaired the inspection and enforcement working group of the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC). To ensure the sustainability of the working group, SPRING transitioned this role to the Uga...

The Health Tutors’ College of Mulago (HTCM) developed and integrated a module on anemia prevention and control interventions into their three-year Bachelor of Medical Education degree program, with SPRING/Uganda’s support. Starting in the 2018/2019 a...

From July 7-11, 2017, over 1,500 health economists and public health practitioners gathered in Boston to discuss new ideas for the economics of global health systems. Topics discussed included latest methods and debates on cost effectiveness analysis...

The Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Nutrition, the first of its kind, was launched on June 20, 2017 with the support of SPRING/Uganda and other USAID-funded partners. USAID implementing partners SPRING, FANTA, Advocacy for Better Health, and Communicat...

SPRING/Uganda conducted key informant interviews with 12 members of Uganda’s National Anemia Working Group (NAWG) on their experiences with cross-sector collaboration and anemia prevention at the national and district levels. The working group member...

Office of the Prime Minister, members of the tenth Parliament of Uganda, and partners are organizing an inaugural Parliamentary Forum on Nutrition to educate lawmakers on the state of nutrition in Uganda. USAID implementing partners SPRING, FANTA, Ad...

SPRING/Uganda exhibited and presented at the inaugural International Symposium on Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Kampala. The theme for this year’s symposium was “the contribution of community health workers towards attainment of Sustainable Deve...

SPRING/Uganda and Feed the Future’s Commodity Production and Marketing (CPM) activity trained representatives from 22 large- and medium-scale maize millers in the country on good manufacturing practices (GMPs) and how to fortify their maize flour.Dur...

SPRING/Uganda partnered with another USAID-funded project, Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Southwest (RHITES/SW), to strengthen efforts to reduce stunting and anemia in the southwestern region of Uganda.In Uganda, anemia affects mo...

Micronutrient powder (MNP) distribution is a promising intervention for reducing anemia in young children, but successful implementation requires a better understanding of effective programming. In Uganda, the Ministry of Health is interested in prov...

In partnership with the Private Sector Foundation of Uganda (PSFU), SPRING/Uganda supported representatives from the National Working Group on Food Fortification as well as small- and medium-scale maize millers to travel to Tanzania for a learning ex...

In Uganda, before fortified foods are approved to enter the market, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) tests them for quality. As more manufacturers get interested in food fortification, the number of fortified samples to test also increa...

On November 5th and 6th, SPRING/Uganda exhibited at the Baby and Kids Expo – East Africa. Many parents and expectant mothers flocked to SPRING’s booth to learn about the benefits of consuming fortified foods. Fortification involves boosting certain f...

In August 2016, SPRING’s Nancy Adero (Technical Advisor of Anemia and Micronutrients) and Danya Sarkar (Nutrition Specialist) conducted district-level workshops to support Uganda’s National Anemia Working Group (NAWG) in piloting the District Assessm...

Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) started WBW in 1992 with the vision of a world where breastfeeding is the cultural norm.This year’s theme—“Breastfeeding: Key to Sustainable Development”—was a reminder to the commitment Uganda made towards co...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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&...

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...

In Uganda, SPRING joined other nutrition stakeholders in the country to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) from 1st -7th August 2015. The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) started WBW in 1992 with the vision of a world where breast...

SPRING will present its work on nutrition financing at two major international conferences in July 2015. For the last several years, SPRING has worked to develop more accurate estimates of national and sub-national multisectoral nutrition funding com...

"Addressing anemia often requires an integrated approach to effectively combat it," remarked Dr. Acheng Jane Ruth, the Director General of Health Services during her opening remarks at the Multisectoral Anemia Stakeholders' Meeting in Kampala. The me...

SPRING and the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) organized a multisectoral training workshop from February 9-11 at Bonita Training Center in Wakiso District, Uganda. The purpose of the workshop was to strengthen the Uganda Nutrition Action...

SPRING/Uganda recently launched an innovative campaign called “Great Mothers, Healthy Children” in the Kisoro and Ntungamo districts of Southwest Uganda. The campaign contains video testimonials designed to influence the nutrition practices of mother...

Translating academic learning into practice is a challenge. So SPRING/Uganda created a “Nutrition Trainee” (internship) program that combines class and field work, helping students develop the knowledge and skills needed to produce meaningful results...

The first ever Bushenyi Nutrition Marathon took place on Saturday, November 30th, 2013, with enthusiasm and hope for Uganda’s future from start to finish.Initiated by the Honorable Mary Karooro Okurut, Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Developmen...

Uganda, like many other countries, is facing competing demands for time, human resources, and funding within the realm of nutrition programming. In order to address the diverse priorities named by the international agreements to which Uganda is a sig...

Although substantial progress has been made against anemia in Uganda, it still exists as a sizable public health problem, especially amongst women of reproductive age and children under 5. To reinvigorate efforts to reduce anemia, SPRING facilitated ...

Every year, Uganda joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). This year, the WBW celebration coincided with the launch of the Partnership for HIV Free Survival (PHFS), a global initiative to eliminate new HIV infections ...

SPRING, in collaboration with the European Union, USAID, UNICEF, and Community Connector is supporting the Uganda government’s launch of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) on February 23, 2013. The launch aims to highlight initial success in scaling up high-...