The Uganda Nutrition Action Plan 2011–2016 (UNAP) provides a unique opportunity to understand how nutrition policy is translated into action. SPRING’s two-year (2014-2016) Pathways to Better Nutrition case study draws on qualitative and quantitative data to provide a 360-degree view of the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAP) process, including the policy, enabling processes and drivers, prioritization, and funding for nutrition described below.
SPRING is collecting data prospectively in two countries—Uganda and Nepal—to document the decision‐making process for prioritizing and funding nutrition‐relevant activities within the context of their national nutrition action plans (NNAP). We began work in Uganda in November 2013.
Levi Jean Kabatabarukye, the Quality Control Manager at BIDCO, shares the company's rationale for selling fortified oil in small sachets.
Levi Jean Kabatabarukye, the Quality Control Manager at BIDCO, describes the USAID-funded SPRING project's efforts to support industrial fortification in Uganda.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, May 2016
This infographic shows SPRING/Uganda's continued growth in reach and impact during the first half of project year 5 (FY 2016).
On April 16, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Alexis D’Agostino presented on SPRING’s nutrition budget analysis work at Unite for Sight’s Global Health & Innovation Conference (GHIC) in New Haven, Connecticut. Bringing together 2,200 professionals and students from all across the United States and more than 55 countries, the conference is the largest global health and social enterprise conference in the world.
When caregivers add micronutrient powders (MNPs) to young children’s food, they are helping to reduce malnutrition and anemia in their communities.
SPRING attended the East Africa Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (MSN-GLEE) in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania from March 8-10, 2016. The East Africa MSN-GLEE is one of four planned MSN-GLEEs through which USAID is rolling out and implementing their 2014–2025 Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy, with support from SPRING and FANTA.