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Guatemala

Capital city
Guatemala City
Latitude
14.62
Longitude
-90.53
Geo
POINT (-90.53 14.62)
Country Boundaries
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USAID Nutrition Profile
USAID Nutrition Profile

Sharing, Learning, and Refining: SPRING Holds Program Design for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Workshop in Guatemala

Over the past several years, SPRING has worked to create and refine guidance for the design of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs. In late January and early February of 2018, SPRING staff Heather Danton and Sarah McClung traveled to Guatemala to share this knowledge and conduct a two-day workshop with the USAID/Guatemala Fomenting Agriculture Incomes and Resilience (FAIR) Project. The SPRING team was accompanied by USAID/BFS Nutrition Advisor Meghan Anson, and a consultant with USAID/BFS’s Food Security Service Center, Dr. Jim Yazman.

Operationalizing Multi-sectoral Coordination and Collaboration for Improved Nutrition

Reducing undernutrition requires a commitment from multiple sectors, yet documentation on how to collaborate across sectors to reach global goals is scant. Through a three-country assessment and literature review, SPRING investigated approaches to multi-sectoral collaboration for nutrition. This paper highlights lessons that USAID and its implementing partners learned, and provides a series of recommendations to guide the designing, implementing, and monitoring of future collaboration.

Improving Nutrition Outcomes through the Western Highlands Integrated Program (WHIP)

In 2013, The Lancet released a series of papers that reviewed progress toward improving nutrition around the globe. In this series, the authors argued that to achieve global targets to reduce undernutrition, a multi-sectoral approach is required—scaling up proven nutrition-specific interventions, as well as strengthening nutrition-sensitive interventions, including agriculture. A need for cross-sector collaboration was further outlined in the document, USAID 2014-2015 Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy, which states, “Multi-sectoral coordination along with collaborative planning and programming across sectors at national, regional, and local levels are necessary to accelerate and sustain nutrition improvements” (USAID 2014).

Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Starts with Nutrition Sensitive Value Chains

SPRING is partnering with USAID’s Bureau for Food Security to understand how Feed the Future projects can achieve nutrition results from agricultural investments. To better understand how and where linkages to nutrition may be leveraged within agricultural value chain programming, we studied two USAID-funded value chain activities in Guatemala to explore ways in which the value chains could increase their relative nutrition-sensitivity.

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.