From Pilot to Practice: Community Video in the Sahel
From Pilot to Practice: Using community-led video to improve nutrition in the African Sahel
From Pilot to Practice: Using community-led video to improve nutrition in the African Sahel
SPRING has been working to develop evidence-based, scalable change in SBCC programs for nutrition globally.
The community video approach for nutrition and health behavior change blends innovative, low-cost, accessible technology with the strength of human-mediated interpersonal communication techniques.
On June 22, 2018, the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Kyrgyz Republic hosted an event in Bishkek to share important lessons and accomplishments of the project from 2014 to 2018.
On June 22, 2018, the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Kyrgyz Republic hosted an event in Bishkek to share important lessons and accomplishments of the project from 2014 to 2018.
The CORE Group’s annual Global Health Practitioner Conference was held June 4th – 7th, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland. This year, the conference was centered on the theme “Community Health Action for the Humanitarian-Development Nexus.” Three SPRING staff members attended the conference, with two of them delivering presentations on SPRING’s work and lessons learned.
In April 2018, over 1,000 social and behavior change communications (SBCC) experts gathered in Nusa Dua, Indonesia for the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit. Even before the summit began, SPRING had been highly engaged – supporting summit planning by leading the multimedia showcase subcommittee. For the conference itself, eight SPRING staff members traveled to Indonesia in order to showcase SPRING and USAID’s work in advancing high-impact SBCC interventions for nutrition.
This video series is available in Russian language with Kyrgyz subtitles.
The USAID-funded SPRING project works to improve the nutrition of women and children in the Kyrgyz Republic, focusing on the 1,000 day window of opportunity. This is the time from a woman’s pregnancy until a child’s second birthday when proper nutrition plays a key role in the physical and mental development of a child as well as the ability to achieve his or her full potential.
The SPRING project began work in Ghana in 2014 in response to a request from USAID/Ghana for support to reduce stunting in the Feed the Future zone of influence in the Northern and Upper East Regions of the country.
This year, two SPRING videos received honorable mentions in the 2018 Pulitzer Global Health Video competition for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference in New York. “Districts Assess Anemia with DATA” was honored in the videos for global health advocacy category, and “Basanti’s Story” was honored in the category of innovations in global health. Gwyneth Cotes, SPRING’s director of global initiatives, will attend the conference and accept the awards on SPRING’s behalf.