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To reduce anemia, governments and communities must work together to implement effective interventions based upon the best information available.
SPRING Promotes Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment during Producer Organization Training Series
On January 18, 2017, SPRING/Senegal facilitated a one-day workshop on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the region of Kaolack.
UPDATE- December 11, 2013: All ten community-led nutrition videos produced and disseminated in Keonjhar, Odisha State, India as part of the SPRING/Digital Green collaboration have been officially launched on the Digital Green website.
During a community day in the village of Thiokomaty, Senegal, SPRING/Senegal and staff from local partner organization UPCL taught hygiene and handwashing at the local primary school.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic hosted an event on Friday, February 10, 2017, entitled “Strengthening Linkages between Agriculture and Nutrition.” SPRING presented on nutrition-sensitive agriculture, an approach wherein agriculture initiatives and
The multidisciplinary and multisectoral capacity to tackle hunger and malnutrition problems remains a major stumbling block in setting the nutrition policy agenda, analyzing policy options, designing intervention programs, implementing interventions, monitoring and evaluation of the programs’ cos
The key recommendations for action on Health in All Policies are summarized and then followed by an outline of concrete actions that should be taken in the Latin American region, the expected time frame for action, and identification of the entities responsible for ensuring that the actions are c
Policymakers, researchers, and capacity building experts can all use this framework as a practical resource to understand how the context at the level of government institutions affects the use of knowledge in policy.
Organizations that link the public and private sectors can benefit individual patients and health systems. These "intermediary" organizations have the ability to perform key health systems functions that individual private providers typically cannot do on their own.
Policy actions and effective governance are necessary for good nutrition in low-income countries.
School feeding programs are politically popular interventions yet it is difficult to assess their effectiveness since their impact is partially on education and partially on school health. They are a means to augment consumption by vulnerable populations.
Currently, no universal synthesis exists on how to implement sustainable healthy consumption and production eating patterns.
Photo credit: SPRING/Kyrgyz RepublicThis module is
From ages six to nine months, children need a nutritious and varied diet. During this important time, mothers also need the support of their entire family. Ndèye is a young mother in Koungheul, Senegal. She counts on her mother-in-law’s advice and the support of her husband.
SPRING/Senegal recognizes the importance of hygiene in households, schools, and health centers as a key element of its multi-sectoral approach to improving the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of two.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic has produced a guidebook on food storage and preservation to facilitate year-round consumption of diverse foods.
A national nutrition action plan or strategy is a clear signal of a country’s political commitment to nutrition. But SPRING has found that increased commitment does not always translate into better support for nutrition activities.
Thiane DraméThiane Dramé of Senala Keur Abdou village in Senegal's Thiaré
Feed the Future highlights an INGENAES training on integrating gender within agricultural value chain and agro-enterprise initiatives held December 7-9, 2016 at Mukono Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MUZARDI) in Mukono, Uganda.
Secure Nutrition and the World Bank Group hosted author and IFPRI Senior Researcher Dr. Harold Alderman to outline the logic for prioritizing nutrition-sensitive programs in the current development landscape. Dr.