How Do Social Protection Programs Address Nutrition Behavior Change? A Look at Interventions and Delivery Channels in World Bank Programming
SecureNutrition Platform, February 2016
Social and behavior change communication
Integration of Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support into Routine Health Service Delivery
Background
SPRING is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the goals of reducing undernutrition, preventing stunting, and reducing anemia in women and children. To achieve this, SPRING/Uganda provides technical support to the government of Uganda to deliver high-impact nutrition interventions primarily targeting women of childbearing age and children under two years of age.
Integrated Nutrition and Agriculture Needs Assessment for Sierra Leone
Prior to the recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, Sierra Leone faced nutritional challenges, with 76 percent of its children anemic and 29 percent stunted (SLMN 2013; SMART Survey 2014).
SPRING Conducts Nutrition Assessment in Post-Ebola Guinea
SPRING recently conducted a nutrition assessment in Guinea to contribute to post Ebola virus disease (EVD) response efforts. Before the Ebola outbreak, Guinea faced chronically high levels of undernutrition and food insecurity. About 26 percent of children 0-59 months are chronically malnourished in Guinea, and about one-third of the population is food insecure.
SPRING Conducts Nutrition Assessment in Post-Ebola Guinea
In response to the Guinea Ebola outbreak, SPRING conducted a nutrition assessment to provide insights into nutrition status.
Formative Research Sheds Light on Agriculture's Potential Impact on Nutrition in Guatemala
SPRING’s formative research to understand factors affecting household-level food purchase and production decisions in Guatemala’s Western Highlands provides insight into how agricultural investments in Guatemala can improve nutrition. To stress the agriculture and nutrition connection, we have introduced conceptual pathways providing a summary of the current state of knowledge for leveraging agriculture to improve nutrition.
Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rural Kyrgyzstan: One Mother’s Journey to Success
SPRING provided training in infant and young child feeding to an existing network of local community activists to address a knowledge gap in Kyrgyzstan about the importance of exclusive breastfeeding.
Seeing Is Believing: Using Community Video to Improve Agriculture and Nutrition Practices
Community Video for Nutrition Guide Highlights Experience Using an Innovative Community-led Video Approach from Digital Green and the SPRING Project
Seeds, Stems, and Vines: Incorporating Biofortification into a Project
SPRING Project, October 2015
Contributing to a National Advocacy and Communication Strategy in Uganda
In Uganda, we worked with the Ugandan government, UN agencies, and USAID implementing partners to develop the National Advocacy and Communication Strategy in support of the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan, under the auspices of the UNAP Secretariat in the Office of the Prime Minister. Because this is a national strategy, different partners have taken responsibility for implementing different parts of the strategy based on their relative capacities.