Multi-sector

Working in Partnership to End Anemia

Reducing anemia on a global scale is an urgent priority among many governments. Innovative approaches to end anemia are central to SPRING’s efforts against undernutrition. As part of these efforts, SPRING’s nutrition experts are participating in USAID’s working group on anemia. SPRING is also working with the Maternal & Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) and the nutrition subgroup of the CORE Group to strengthen these partners’ efforts to address anemia.

How Can We Reduce Anemia?

To reduce anemia, governments and communities must work together to implement effective interventions based upon the best information available.

Applying Systems Thinking for Nutrition

Practitioners working in nutrition must start thinking about the effect food, health, and education systems have on nutrition practices and outcomes.

SPRING’s Community Video Resource Page

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.

Assessing the Application of Systems Thinking for Nutrition

The Case for Systems Thinking

Figure 1. The SPRING Framework for Applying Systems Thinking to Nutrition

Today, the world faces a double burden of malnutrition, with almost three billion people suffering from either undernutrition or overweight (FAO 2013). No country is untouched by this crisis.

Building a Shared Vision for Good Nutrition, Growth, and Development in the Community

Introduction

Poor nutrition is one of the most important challenges to the development and growth of nations and communities. In its recent Global Nutrition Coordination Plan 2016–2021, the U.S. Government committed to “improving nutrition throughout the world in order to enhance health, productivity, and human potential” (USAID 2016).

SPRING Catalyzed Launch of Sierra Leone Multi-Sectoral Strategy to Prevent and Control Anemia

Since 2015, SPRING supported the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) in Sierra Leone to build a multi-sectoral coordination platform to address anemia. Efforts began with a Landscape Analysis of Anemia and Anemia-related Programming, revealing that although anemia is a severe public health problem, iron deficiency, typically a main contributor, is surprisingly low.

SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University Hold a Workshop on Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

On April 5-6, the USAID-funded SPRING project conducted a workshop together with the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University on understanding the linkages between agriculture and nutrition in the Kyrgyz Republic. Faculty from the Kyrgyz State Agrarian University and other nutrition and agriculture stakeholders – including representatives from World Food Programme, Food & Agriculture Organization, the Agriculture Productivity and Nutrition Improvement Project, and USAID’s Agro Horizon Project – attended the workshop.

Exploring Multi-Sector Programming at the Sub-National Level in Senegal, Nepal and Kenya

ENN Field Exchange, March 2018.

World Health Organization Consolidates Recommendations to Improve Adolescent Nutrition

The SPRING project worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) Evidence and Programme Guidance Unit, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, to develop Guideline: Implementing Effective Actions for Improving Adolescent Nutrition.