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SPRING/Senegal Celebrates End of 18 Months of Implementation with Close-out Ceremonies in Kaolack and Dakar

The ceremony in Kaolack took place on October 11, 2017 and honored SPRING staff, partners, and community members and showcased the project’s success in an interactive manner. The ceremony in Dakar took place on October 17th and was attended by USAID Senegal mission director, Lisa Franchett and national coordinator of the Unit for the Fight against Malnutrition, Abdoulaye Ka. Guests at both ceremonies visited different stands to learn about SPRING’s achievements in nutrition-sensitive agriculture, SBCC, gender and WASH.

Collaborating across Borders: SPRING/Sierra Leone Staff Visit SPRING/Guinea for Learning Exchange

In May 2017, SPRING organized a trip for staff from the Feed the Future-funded Entrepreneurial Agriculture for Improved Nutrition (EAIN) activity and SPRING/Sierra Leone to visit the SPRING/Guinea project in Faranah, Guinea to learn about the community media approaches used to promote improved maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices, especially in households with pregnant women and young children.

USAID and SPRING/Senegal Staff Visit Community Partners’ Projects

A group of USAID/Senegal and SPRING/Senegal staff observed a few of the activities initiated with SPRING’s support during a three-day field visit from September 19-21, 2017. The group visited six communities and saw nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social and behavior change activities including a micro-garden and a community video dissemination and discussion session.

Sierra Leone: Entry Points for Nutrition in Feed the Future Value Chains

Executive Summary

The Entrepreneurial Agriculture for Improved Nutrition (EAIN) activity works to improve agricultural productivity and food security in the Tonkolili district of Sierra Leone. Funded the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), this Feed the Future activity integrates market-led agriculture and nutrition interventions to achieve two intermediate results (IR):

As Easy as ABC: Accelerating Behavior Change in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture E-Learning Course Now Available

While there are many opportunities to make agriculture more nutrition-sensitive, understanding how to influence behavior to address the indirect causes of malnutrition can be a challenge. USAID’s multi-sectoral nutrition project, SPRING, has developed an online training course for professionals who design and implement agriculture projects. The course builds knowledge and skills so participants can make agriculture projects more nutrition-sensitive by more effectively leveraging agriculture’s potential to contribute to specified nutrition outcomes.