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Executive SummarySPRING officially launched activities in Haiti in April 2012, collaborati
Needing to increase the number of health facilities served from 12 to 17 in FY15 had the SPRING/Haiti project asking an important question: How was the project's small technical staff going to reach 17 health facilities located in 9 departments to strengthen the nutrition assessment, counseling,…
SPRING released findings from the multi-sectoral Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) Case Study during a national event in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 20th, 2016. The National Planning Commission (NPC) chaired the event.
As part of our work to improve the nutritional status of women of reproductive age, pregnant and lactating women, and chil
Join SPRING and UNICEF in this webinar to learn about the experience of scaling up the UNICEF C-IYCF counseling package and lessons learned from an evaluation of community infant and young child feeding (C-IYCF) counselling package in Nigeria.
SPRING held three district- and one national-level d
Soy milk and soy yogurt have the potential to contribute to improved nutrition for thousands of people while generating economic opportunities. This webinar focused on developing sustainable and successful soy dairy processing enterprises around the world.
The 2013 Lancet nutrition series argues that in order to achieve global targets for reducing undernutrition, there needs to be a multi-sectoral approach to include scaled-up, proven nutrition-specific interventions, as well as nutrition-sensitive interventions such as from the agriculture sector.
Nearly 200 performance and impact evaluations of Feed the Future programs were reviewed using the lens of the Feed the Future Learning Agenda to produce this report.
The Voices of the Hungry project (VoH) aims to estimate prevalence of food insecurity consistently across national populations. These estimates are based on conditions and behaviors reported by adults through the Food Insecurity Experience Scale Survey Module (FIES-SM).
The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator acts as a tool for assessment, target-setting, and advocacy. MDD-W is a dichotomous indicator of whether or not women 15-49 years of age have consumed at least five out of ten defined food groups the previous day or night.
The Diagnostic Tool can assist program planners in identifying and mapping the scope and nature of linkages between agriculture and social protection interventions in their countries, including supportive and constraining factors.
In his new book, journalist Roger Thurow tells stories of mothers and babies worldwide to explore the effort to end childhood malnutrition.
Reducing stunting in South Asia requires the coordination of nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions, especially measures that lead to improved nutritional status for mothers.
In response to persistently poor maternal, newborn and child health indicators in low income countries, governments, non-governmental organizations and international donors have intensified the call for multi-sectoral interventions.
The concept of “nutrition-sensitive agriculture” designates a role for agriculture in providing food security – access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food for all people at all times.
Despite strides made to reduce global hunger, vulnerable people on a global scale are still hungry. The availability of cheap cereal foods has coincided with a reduction in dietary diversity.
How do traditional market development activities orient their investments to not just improve sales or market share, but also encourage consumption of nutrient-rich commodities? And how can these efforts and their hoped-for eventual impact on nutrition be measured? SPRING and Land O’Lakes…
SPRING’s Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) case study provided analysis of Nepal’s financing for nutrition to the Nepali Delegation for the Public Finance
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), and local NGOs.