US Ambassador Sheila Gwaltney visited the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Naryn Oblast of Kyrgyz Republic on June 8th and 9th.
On June 8th, Ambassador Gwaltney toured a SPRING-supported district hospital that provides maternal and child nutrition services to 68 thousand people, and met with new mothers receiving important counseling regarding the nutrition of their babies.
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. The workshop aimed to inform SPRING partners’ behavior change and agricultural extension work related to nutrition-sensitive agriculture. The workshop covered the agriculture-to-nutrition pathways and principles and other key concepts, such as criteria for selecting crops that address nutrient gaps in local diets.
| Acronym List | |
|---|---|
| CDO | community development officer |
| CLTS | community led total sanitation |
| DWST | district water and sanitation team |
| GES | Ghana Education Service |
| EHO | environmental health officer |
| SBCC | social behav |
Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), April 2016
When caregivers add micronutrient powders (MNPs) to young children’s food, they are helping to reduce malnutrition and anemia in their communities.
In West Africa, understanding the local context is an important first step towards building more resilient communities to mitigate the impact of the Ebola emergency on food security and nutrition.
The second annual Safollo Gatha, an event organized to celebrate the best practices of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) in health, population, and nutrition programs, was held on Thursday, March 27 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Nutrition-related social and behavior change communication (SBCC) can help improve the nutritional status of children during the first 1,000 days. In Southwest (SW) Uganda, the USAID-funded SPRING project designed and implemented a SBCC campaign called Great Mothers, Healthy Children.
In tandem with the Kyrgyz Association of Village Health Committees, SPRING works through an existing network of “Community Activists,” the primary infrastructure in many communities for awareness raising and the dissemination of social messages. SPRING orients the Activists on a different nutrition-related theme (e.g.
