High-quality visual images are an essential component of nutrition and health social and behavior change (SBC) programming but can be difficult to find or produce. In 2010, UNICEF and partners developed an integrated nutrition SBC package known as the Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) Counselling Package – investing in high-quality graphic illustrations for low-literacy contexts.
As part of SPRING/Senegal’s multi-sectoral nutrition strategy, hygiene monitoring teams known as dynaset-setal groups conduct regular home visits to ensure that households meet basic hygiene standards. Dynaset-setal is a Wolof phrase meaning “I commit to a clean environment” that emphasizes each group member’s role as a resource person and positive example of good hygiene practices in their community.
On August 9, 2017, SPRING/Senegal and partner radio station Niombato FM organized a promotional hike in Toubacouta Village. Over 100 hikers marched a total of 5 miles, wearing t-shirts bearing messages on nutrition, agriculture, gender, and hygiene. Participants passed through three villages and shared information with villagers. The messages were also recorded and broadcast on all of six of SPRING’s partner radio stations.
SPRING/Sierra Leone created of a set of counselling cards to address key complementary feeding and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors for the Sierra Leonean context.
This tutorial demonstrates the steps of the technical process, from reference photography to line drawing, color, volume, patterns, and a final image for layout. The video is intended as a visual companion to the Photo-to-Illustration Guide. Both program managers and illustrators alike can use the video to understand the process and begin to create their own high-quality images.
Identifying a need for better hygiene in Yiziidug, in 2016, SPRING introduced community-led total sanitation (CLTS) to Yiziidug.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic works with media partners to develop and share videos on key nutrition messages across the country. This animated video shares the importance of properly washing and handling food to prevent contamination or worm infection.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic works with media partners to develop and share videos on key nutrition messages across the country. This animated video shares the importance of properly washing and handling food to prevent contamination or worm infection.
Reducing undernutrition requires collaboration and coordination from actors across sectors, but this multi-sectoral coordination remains difficult to implem
Ya Ngoné is a fish vendor and lactating mother who lives and works in Djilor, a village not far from the sea in Senegal. She is very careful about hand hygiene and is supported in these good pratices by her mother, Daba. Daba is always encouraging women to build tippy-taps (a simple hand-washing system) by their homes and to always wash their hands at the five critical moments: before eating, before feeding the baby, before preparing food, after using the toilet, and after cleaning the baby.