Malnutrition is a leading cause of many health problems across the globe, yet current funding is insufficient to address the problem. Securing adequate funding requires understanding how much funding has already been allocated to nutrition and how much and where the funding gaps are.
Since 2014, USAID’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, SPRING, has worked in 15 districts in the Upper East and Northern Regions of Ghana, which are part of the Feed the Future zone of influence (figure 1).
High-quality images have become an essential component of social and behavior change. They are especially critical in the print materials we develop for use in low-literacy or multi-language settings where written words are often barriers to communication.
The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) defines global standards of optimal care for appropriate breastfeeding and mother-child bonding. Participating hospitals undergo a process of planning, training, and organizational and policy changes to achieve 10 steps.
USAID, Ministry of Health, and oblast government representatives attended the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) award ceremony for three facilities in Jalalabad on January 31, 2018. On the same day, MOH and oblast administration officials in Naryn awarded BFHI certificates to three facilities.
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In 2014, the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the SPRING project embarked on a two-year evaluation of the Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) Counselling Package when adapted for the local context and implemented at scale in one local government area (LGA) in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The baseline evaluation was completed in 2015.
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.
In 2014, the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project embarked on a two-year evaluation of the Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) Counselling Package when adapted for the local context and implemented at scale in one local government area (LGA) in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
In 2015, the USAID-funded SPRING project began working with the MOH to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and anemia counseling for patients in health facilities in Naryn and Jalal-Abad oblasts. To ensure the quality of these sessions, SPRING developed checklists and guidelines for line supervisors to assess health workers’ on-the-job performance following clinical trainings. These new tools were designed to provide ongoing support for skill retention and quality of services.
