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Anemia in GhanaAnemia is a critical health problem in Ghana, affecting 66 percent of children under five and 42 percent of women of reproductive age (GSS, GHS, and ICF International 2014). It has significant adverse effects on the country’s health and economic development.
Empowered women and engaged men provide better nutrition for the whole familiy.
Background
Since 2015, SPRING has worked i
SPRING’s work in Ghana (2014–2017) aimed to improve the health of 1,000-day households with pregnant women and/or children under 2 years of age.
“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
SPRING is proud to participate in the International Congress of Nutrition taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from the 15th to the 20th October 2017. Below you will find a summary of the symposia and sessions where SPRING is involved.
This seven-minute video shows Zambia's double malnutrition burden: stunting and overweight. A major cause is the limited diversity of Zambia’s food production and consumption: 94 percent of agricultural produce is maize.
SPRING pioneered the farmer nutrition school approach in Bangladesh by innovatively combining the proven “farmer field school” and “essential nutrition actions” methods.
On September 19, the Word Food Programme hosted a webinar with SecureNutrition as part of the UN Network for SUN webinar series.
The Committee on Food Security (CFS) and the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) held an event on stunting to highlight the interconnectedness of the causes of childhood stunting and the need to act on them simultaneously while targeting actions within health, social protection, and food s
This webinar held on September 25, 2017, provided an overview of key considerations when designing, implementing, and evaluating integrated social and behavior change communication (SBCC) programs.
The latest High-Level Panel of Experts for Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) report analyses how food systems influence people’s dietary patterns and nutritional status.
This technical brief provides an overview of community SBCC and triggering on positive nutrition and hygiene behaviours.
This report discusses the broad scope and range of FANTA’s multisectoral nutrition programming activities in developing countries. The report includes the tools and methods the project developed to promote country-led, evidence-based, scalable multisectoral approaches to improved nutrition.
This guide reports on the learning that has emerged from the Transform Nutrition consortium's research examining the potential of the social protection and agriculture sectors in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to reduce chronic undernutrition.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World monitors progress towards both the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2). It includes thematic analyses of how food security and nutrition are related to progress on other SDG targets.
Thailand is experiencing an increasing burden of obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases. The Thai government has responded by developing a number of policies to protect and promote healthy eating.