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Water, sanitation, and hygiene

Finding a Shared Purpose: Strengthening Coordination and Collaboration for Improved Nutrition in Rwanda

SPRING worked with USAID | Rwanda to develop collaboration goals among CHAIN partners and prepared an analysis of the 11 partners’ existing work and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans. SPRING worked with the partners to map each of their interventions to the CHAIN Results Framework, complementing an existing map to help partners visualize opportunities for collaboration.

Celebrating 18 Months of Implementation: SPRING/Senegal Holds Close-out Ceremonies in Kaolack and Dakar

After 18 months of providing nutrition-focused assistance to communities in three regions of Senegal (Kaolack, Fatick and Kaffrine), the SPRING/Senegal project officially came to a close on September 30, 2017. To formally mark the end of the project and celebrate its success, SPRING organized two close-out ceremonies in Kaolack and in Dakar.

SPRING/Senegal Celebrates End of 18 Months of Implementation with Close-out Ceremonies in Kaolack and Dakar

The ceremony in Kaolack took place on October 11, 2017 and honored SPRING staff, partners, and community members and showcased the project’s success in an interactive manner. The ceremony in Dakar took place on October 17th and was attended by USAID Senegal mission director, Lisa Franchett and national coordinator of the Unit for the Fight against Malnutrition, Abdoulaye Ka. Guests at both ceremonies visited different stands to learn about SPRING’s achievements in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, SBCC, gender and WASH.

Community Video Spurs Collective Action to Improve Sanitation in Ghana

In rural Kpatia-Tengre, a 131-member community in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region of Ghana, a lack of latrines resulted in community members openly defecating around homes and in fields that are used for agriculture. But when members of the community joined members of the nearby Tualabare village to watch a video on improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in the first 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child’s second birthday, they began their journey to achieving open defecation-free (ODF) status.

Successes in Multi-Sectoral Nutrition: Sharing Lessons Learned from SPRING/Ghana

On September 7, 2017, SPRING/Ghana hosted an event to share important lessons learned and accomplishments in improving maternal and child nutrition outcomes in Ghana from 2014 to 2017. This event was chaired by the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service for the Northern Region, Naa Dr. Jacob Y. Mahama, and the guest of honor Regional Minister for the Northern Region, the Honorable Salifu Saeed.