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Bangladeshi television channel Desh TV airs a public health show called ‘Jiboner Golpo’ (Life’s Story) in partnership with USAID and Voice of America. SPRING/Bangladesh was recently invited to participate in the latest episode to discuss the importan...

Bangladesh has seen a surge in the number of Internet users, but for many people in the country, the use of Internet is limited to Facebook. With this in mind, SPRING/Bangladesh has launched its own Facebook page. This will further strengthen the pro...

UPDATE - February 12, 2015 All 10 of the community-led videos SPRING/Digital Green’s collaborative work produced in for Niger’s Maradi Region are now available here.Working with Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel-Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-E...

Sisimpur is the Bangladeshi version of the popular children’s television series Sesame Street. Funded by USAID and airing in Bangladesh since 2005, the series is in its ninth season. One of the few initiatives that focuses on preschool education, Sis...

The Revitalization of Community Health Care Initiatives in Bangladesh (RCHCIB), a project of the Government of Bangladesh, will expand the use of tippy taps and community nutrition champions throughout the country, both strategies introduced by SPRIN...

Building on its successful collaboration with Digital Green in Odisha, India, SPRING is integrating nutrition into community videos produced and screened in 20 villages in the Maradi Region of Niger. Since January 2015, SPRING and Digital Green have ...

Good eating practices among adolescent girls and young women are a critical component of good nutrition in the First 1,000 Days. Recognizing the importance of focusing on this key population, SPRING is partnering with nutrition leaders to push the ag...

As part of SPRING/Bangladesh's ongoing efforts to mobilize communities around improved nutrition, SPRING/Bangladesh regularly participates in government-organized agricultural fairs. Last week, SPRING/Bangladesh manned a booth and gave out important ...

In recent years, droughts and other shocks in Africa's Sahel region have drawn attention to the urgent need to strengthen the ability of communities to cope in challenging and changing natural environments. However, despite decades of programming exp...

Translating academic learning into practice is a challenge. So SPRING/Uganda created a “Nutrition Trainee” (internship) program that combines class and field work, helping students develop the knowledge and skills needed to produce meaningful results...

The Assistant Administrator for USAID/Asia, Ms. Anne Aarnes, and the USAID/Bangladesh Mission Director, Ms. Janina Jaruzelski, visited SPRING on Tuesday, October 28, as part of a short tour that this VIP group is making in Khulna Division this week.T...

Working with USAID and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), SPRING is mobilizing global thought leaders to identify and support the scale-up of effective policies and programs enabling families to make better nutrition decisions. On Apr...

UPDATE- December 11, 2013: All ten community-led nutrition videos produced and disseminated in Keonjhar, Odisha State, India as part of the SPRING/Digital Green collaboration have been officially launched on the Digital Green website. The full collec...

Coinciding with the arrival of World Breastfeeding Week, the Nigerian government launched an Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) campaign, which involved the release of the Nigeria Community and Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding Package. Thes...

On June 24-28, 2013, 22 health workers from six hospitals convened in Petit Goave, Haiti for a training of trainers (TOT) led by SPRING/Haiti and the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population (MSPP). The training was on a new infant and youn...

In September 2013, SPRING delegates will attend the IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition (ICN 2013)—one of the most prestigious international nutrition conferences that brings together more than 5,000 nutrition-related specialists—and highli...

UPDATE - August 30, 2013: The SPRING/Digital Green collaboration and feasibility study that was launched in November 2012 is progressing well and receiving encouraging initial feedback from stakeholders and local communities. The communities requeste...