Some two billion people around the world consume a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives. The world community is reacting with increasing urgency, focusing especially on addressing global undernutrition among pregnant women and children under two years of age.
Some two billion people around the world consume a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives. The world community is reacting with increasing urgency, focusing especially on addressing global undernutrition among pregnant women and children under two years of age.
Some two billion people around the world consume a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives. The world community is reacting with increasing urgency, focusing especially on addressing global undernutrition among pregnant women and children under two years of age.
Some two billion people around the world consume a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives. The world community is reacting with increasing urgency, focusing especially on addressing global undernutrition among pregnant women and children under two years of age.
Around the world, some two billion people live on a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live healthy and productive lives, and more than 200 million children under the age of five suffer from chronic undernutrition as manifest by stunting, wasting,1 and severe wasting.
SPRING builds on international experiences in several sectors to design Bangladesh-specific interventions and innovations by targeting health and agricultural workers within the GOB and among nongovernmental organizations to reach communities and individuals (especially pregnant women and new mothers) with carefully targeted information on breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and other ENAs.
The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework delivers a set of evidence-based interventions to improve nutritional status during the critical 1,000 days between conception and two years of age.
Promoting Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) and Essential Hygiene Actions (EHA) has been a major component of SPRING’s work in Bangladesh. During the first two years of implementation, SPRING/Bangladesh achieved this by training health and agriculture workers on ENA and EHA.