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Our publications curate evidence, best practices, and policies to help improve nutrition through health, agriculture, and economic development programs.

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Reports | September 2018

Endline Nutrition Survey in the Kyrgyz Republic

Photo of an older woman holding holding a baby to be spoon-fed by a younger woman.
Reports | September 2018

Kyrgyz Republic: Final Country Report

SPRING-trained mediators
Reports | August 2018

The Value-Add of Community Video in Changing Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors: Evidence from a Comparative Study in Senegal

Photo of three women working and writing at a screen during a workshop
Reports | August 2018

Tools for Anemia Programming: An Immersion Workshop

Photo of three mothers, standing outside, each holding her child while looking at the camera.
Reports | August 2018

Trends in Homestead Food Production and Nutrition Outcomes in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence, Bangladesh

Photo of three men and two women working on making a video
Reports | August 2018

Guinea Final Country Report

Photo of a man and woman posing outside with their infant child
Reports | August 2018

Sierra Leone Final Country Report

Cover photo: A mother and father with their child, sitting outside on a bench consulting with a health worker. Photo: Abdoul Khalighi Diallo for SPRING.
Reports | July 2018

Guinea: Formative Assessment of Household Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition and Hygiene Practices

Photo of a group of smiling women wearing SPRING projects shirts.
Reports | July 2018

Senegal: Final Country Report

Figure 3: Nutrition, Growth, and Development in the Community. "The illustration in figure 3 depicts an ideal community that has all of the ingredients for good nutrition, growth, and development."
Reports | July 2018

Building a Shared Vision for Good Nutrition, Growth, and Development in the Community

Cover photo: four teenage girls in their school uniforms, dancing and jumping as they pose for the camera.
Reports | June 2018

The Potential to Improve Nutrition through the Use of Fortified Maize Flour in Schools in Uganda

Cover photo: a young mother holding her smiling child in a clinic
Reports | June 2018

Uganda Final Country Report

Photo of a man pouring flour into a machine
Reports | April 2018

The State of Maize Flour Fortification in Uganda

Photo of a mother holding her child wrapped in a blanket on her back.
Reports | April 2018

Ghana: Final Country Report

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Reports | March 2018

Diet and Eating Practices among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Cover image featuring a film crew making a community video.
Reports | March 2018

Community Media for Social and Behavior Change

Photo of about a dozen women and men sitting at a table during a workshop/conference. Credit: Josh Yosphyn
Reports | February 2018

Piloting and Implementing the District Assessment Tool for Anemia in Uganda

Photo of a gathering of women sitting in a circle with counseling materials sitting on the grass in the foreground
Reports | February 2018

The Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Photo of A woman and her daughter outside a building. Caption: “Mother and daughter share a laugh during the household survey in Cross River State”
Reports | February 2018

Assessing Drivers of Malnutrition in Nigeria

Photograph of a group of women in India using instructional cards
Reports | February 2018

Using Farming Families’ Perspectives to Inform Recommended Priority Practices

Photo of a woman giving a presentation in front of a group of people in a conference room. Caption: "Sarah Ngalombi, Senior Nutritionist with the Ministry of Health, speaks before the National Anemia Working Group."
Reports | February 2018

Multi-Sectoral Anemia Efforts at the National Level in Uganda

Photo of about 50-60 women and men standing, facing the camers, on a wide stairway. Caption: "Sierra Leone National Strategy to Prevent and Control Anemia Validation Meeting"
Reports | January 2018

Multi-Sectoral Anemia Efforts at the National Level in Sierra Leone

Cover photo: a woman holding her child sits on a bench talking with a man holding a pen and paper.
Reports | January 2018

Sierra Leone: Barrier Analysis Survey on Fish and Pumpkin

Cover photo: a mother in Sierra Leone bending down, carrying her infant child on her back as she uses a tippy-tap to wash her hands
Reports | January 2018

Shifting Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors in Sierra Leone Utilizing Trials of Improved Practices

Cover photo: a group of several mothers and their children gathered outside by a tree. Photo by Souleymane Ouattara, Jade Video Production.
Reports | January 2018

The SPRING Community Video Program in East Region, Burkina Faso

Photo of three men, six women, one girl, and three infants. They are standing outside a brick building, smiling at the camera. Caption: "Proud Mawa beneficiares"
Reports | January 2018

Zambia: Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in Practice

Front page of document. Strip of artist renderings of adolescent women from different countries across top. Title of document below.
Reports | December 2017

Report of the Stakeholders Consultation on Adolescent Girls’ Nutrition

A group of people at a table sort through different chili peppers.
Reports | October 2017

Sierra Leone: Entry Points for Nutrition in Feed the Future Value Chains

A woman crouching with a hajol.
Reports | September 2017

Spillover Effect of SPRING/Bangladesh Farmer Nutrition Schools among Non-Project Beneficiaries

A Bangladeshi woman sits on a blanket with her two young children. There is a plate of food on the blanket and she is holding out her hand with food in it to feed the younger child.
Reports | August 2017

Bangladesh: Farmer Nutrition School Cohort Study

Maize mill employee Haruna Ssemakula carries a sack of maize flour to a waiting truck.
Reports | August 2017

Uganda: Mapping of Maize Millers

A mother holds her baby up in the air. Both look happy. The mother smiles at the baby. The baby smiles at the camera.
Reports | August 2017

Bangladesh: Final Country Report

Man and child sit on a mat in Niger
Reports | May 2017

The Father Factor

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Reports | April 2017

Opportunities for Integrating Nutrition into Agricultural Information Systems in Northern Ghana

A woman smiles at the camera while holding her baby.
Reports | April 2017

Assessment of SPRING-supported Implementation of Infant and Young Child Feeding in Nigeria

A woman sits in her garden
Reports | April 2017

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Results from SPRING/Bangladesh’s Farmer Nutrition Schools

Saidi Abdullai and her 10-month old baby, Basharia. Saidi is a member of the Rahama mother-to-mother support group in Ningi village in Bauchi, Nigeria.
Reports | March 2017

Nigeria: Final Country Report 2012-2016

Young girls listen to an interview with a newly married woman who regularly attends CIYCF support group meetings.
Reports | December 2016

Evaluation of Nigeria’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package - Progress Report #4

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Reports | December 2016

Evaluation of the Nigeria Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package: Baseline Report

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Reports | November 2016

Evaluation of Nigeria’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package - Progress Report #3

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Reports | November 2016

Evaluation of Nigeria’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package - Progress Report #2

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Reports | November 2016

Evaluation of Nigeria’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package - Progress Report #1

Women attend a C-IYCF support group meeting in Nigeria. Sascha Lamstein, SPRING.
Reports | November 2016

Evaluation of Nigeria’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package: Report of a Mid-Process Assessment

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Reports | November 2016

A Qualitative Review of Micronutrient Powder Distribution in Namutumba District, Uganda

Participants at the second meeting of the Technical Consultation Series on Nutrition Financial Analysis.
Reports | November 2016

Meeting Report: Technical Consultation on Nutrition Financial Analysis

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Reports | September 2016

Ghana: Field Testing of the District Assessment Tool for Anemia (DATA)

Woman spoon feeding a baby.
Reports | September 2016

Spring/Digital Green Collaboration and Feasibility Study

Seated woman holding a baby sits next to a man who is speaking and holding a pad of paper and a pencil
Reports | September 2016

Ghana: Landscape Analysis of Anemia and Anemia Programming

Mahmud Hambali from Digital Green shows the process of storyboarding (with Save the Children SBCC advisor, Aboubacar Sale)
Reports | September 2016

SPRING/Digital Green Collaboration Progress Report

Group of women sitting outside
Reports | September 2016

Informing Video Topics and Content on Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition and Handwashing