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The SecureNutrition Platform Harvesting Nutrition Contest award ceremony on February 19, 2015, showcased three agriculture-nutrition projects that demonstrated outstanding innovation, potential for impa
For International Women's Day 2015, SPRING's Director of Global Initiatives, Anu Narayan, celebrates women's achievements and comments on SPRING's efforts to help women improve their lives and communities.
The first session in this series, Using Demographic and Health Survey Data to Monitor and Evaluate Nutrition Programs, was jointly hosted with The Demographic Health Survey (DHS) Program and focused on the collection and use of DHS data to monitor and evaluate nutrition programs.
The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) highlighted SPRING in the recent edition of their Field Exchange publication.
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Good eating practices among adolescent girls and young women are a critical component of good nutrition in the First 1,000 Days.
A&T implements multi-component programs that make strategic use of data to plan, assess, and evaluate program impact to improve child feeding practices. The aim is to disseminate the models and the learnings widely, encouraging adaptation or replication of at-scale implementation in other…
The intervention uses mass media, including television commercials, and community mobilization through social activities centered on women’s groups.
Between 2005 and 2010, Food for the Hungry (FH) applied the Care Group (CG) model in Sofala, Mozambique, with the aim of reaching more than 1 million pregnant women and women with children 0–23 months to decrease malnutrition in children in this age group. The program focused on nine key behaviors…
Poor farmers in low and middle income countries are often risk-averse and reluctant to adopt new methods of farming, since crop failure could potentially lead to extreme hardship. Digital Green works with local farmers to create community-led videos disseminated through local social networks to…
Development Media International (DMI) implemented a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Burkina Faso to measure the impact of mass media on child mortality.
Prospera, formerly known as Progresa or Oportunidades, is a national conditional cash transfer program. EsIAN is a pilot program within Prospera that aims to strengthen Prospera’s health and nutrition component by addressing the nutritional transition in Mexico and improving the health and…
In Nepal, four in 10 children are stunted; one in three women and five in 10 children are anemic, and one in 10 children is wasted. Suaahara (“Good Nutrition”) is implementing a multisectoral, multiplatform approach to reducing these problems by promoting better practices at the community and…
Mumbai’s suburban railroads serve over 7 million daily commuters; with 2,000 train lines spread over 465,000 km. Besides serving as rail service infrastructure, the railroad tracks are often the shortest pedestrian route between common destinations. With few effective physical barriers and over 1,…
OverviewThis report presents a strategic agenda for nutrition Social and Behavior Change Com
This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on optimal timing of umbilical cord clamping as a public health intervention for the purpose of improving maternal and infant health and nutrition outcomes. Delayed cord clamping (waiting to clamp for two to three minut
Anna Herforth, a lead author of the World Bank's SecureNutrition paper, presented an overview and unveiled a new ‘digital timeline’ online, letting audiences access the information in an interactive format.
Technical Meeting on the Diet and Eating Practices of Adolescent Girls and Women of Reproductive Age
On March 16-17, 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), SPRING, and the USAID-funded Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA), co-hosted a technical meeting of more than 40 global leaders in the field…
On March 19, 2015, the U.S. Agency for International Development officially launched SPRING in the Kyrgyz Republic.