Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) invited SPRING/Bangladesh to present on Farmer Nutrition Schools and its experience towards improved household nutrition at the Policies against Hunger XII conference. Hosted by BMEL, the conference took place from June 22-24, 2016, and brought together 350 high-level participants from across the globe to address key aspects of food security and nutrition.
Africa RISING Ethiopia, March 2016.
SPRING helps bring health care within reach for many families in Southern Bangladesh through partnerships with the USAID-DFID NHSDP.
SPRING has helped in bringing health care within reach for many families in Southern Bangladesh. Through its partnership with the USAID-DFID NGO Health Service Delivery Project (NHSDP), affectionately known as “Surjer Hashi”, SPRING is helping bring health care to the doorstep of remote rural communities. Through this partnership, health services that were previously inaccessible to these vulnerable rural communities have now been made accessible.
SPRING’s work in Mali aimed to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable women and children. The project promoted the growth and consumption of nutritious and diverse diets through community gardens convened by Farmer Field Schools, which combined training in nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices and the promotion of nutrition-specific behaviors. SPRING trained 5,500 famers and distributed 11,000 moringa, baobob, and papaya saplings.
The SPRING/Mali program closed out on March 31, 2016, after 15 months of work in-country improving nutritional status of women and children, with special emphasis on building resilience in Mali’s Mopti region by treating and preventing undernutrition.
The Agriculture Indicators Report illustrates SPRING/Mali’s achievements for our Feed the Future indicators. In January 2016, we sampled 127 of 5,500 Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) beneficiaries who had been trained in homestead food production.
SPRING/Mali’s goal is to improve the nutritional status of women of reproductive age, pregnant and lactating women, and children under age two in the Mopti region.