Site Archive

The SPRING Project ended in September 2018. This website provides an archive of SPRING's publications, tools, news, and other materials.

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SPRING Highlights

Adolescent Nutrition CALL TO ACTION: Better Data Now to Drive Better Policies and Programs in the Future

Participants call on the international community to continue to raise awareness, encourage a coordinated and collective response, and prioritize specific actions that will generate the knowledge and data needed to improve adolescent nutrition.

SPRING community volunteers sing a song about the importance of mothers.
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SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic Shares Four Years of Lessons and Accomplishments

On June 22, 2018, the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Kyrgyz Republic hosted an event in Bishkek to share important lessons and accomplishments of the project from 2014 to 2018. 

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SPRING Shares Experiences with Hemoglobin Measurement and Engaging Men for Nutrition at CORE Group

SPRING participated in the CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference, delivering a presentation on engaging men for improved nutrition, and sharing research on hemoglobin measurement through song.

Group photo of the SPRING team at the event.
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SPRING Connects at the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit

SPRING staff traveled to Nusa Dua, Indonesia to present on SPRING’s work in nutrition social and behavior change and to build skills among practitioners at the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit.

Evidence-based. Country-led. Results-driven. Improving lives through better nutrition.

Country Highlights

SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic

SPRING’s work in the Kyrgyz Republic aims to reduce stunting through evidence-based interventions with a clear pathway to national scale-up. This will be achieved by improving nutrition-related behaviors at the household level while also building capacity at the national level in support of...

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Resource Review

A selection of materials to help you keep on top of developments from across SPRING’s technical areas.

Healthy Meals in Schools: Policy Innovations Linking Agriculture, Food Systems and Nutrition
Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, November 2015
Livelihoods at the Limit: Evidence from the Consolidated Household Economy Analysis Database
Save the Children (2013)
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SPRING Activities

SPRING plans, implements, and evaluates activities across a range of global nutrition topics. Selected activities from our programs are highlighted below.
Filming a group of women practicing healthy food preparation
Collaborating and Planning with UPAVAN in India
The SPRING/Ghana 1,000 Day Household Approach
The SPRING/Ghana 1,000 Day Household Approach
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Featured Publications

Use SPRING's publications to learn about evidence, best practices, and policies for improving nutrition.
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Job Aids and Tools | June 2017
The Strategic Agenda for At-Scale Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication
Woman in a radio station. Courtest of Development Media International
Reports | September 2014
SBCC in the Sahel
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