Site Archive

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

Girls talking as they work.
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.
SPRING Highlights

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. 

Photo of the three SPRING team members posing together.
SPRING Highlights

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.
SPRING Highlights

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/Ghana

SPRING/Ghana aimed to reduce stunting by 20 percent in two regions—Northern Region and Upper East Region. Working in 15 districts within these two regions, SPRING/Ghana’s activities included anemia reduction, infant and young child nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; aflatoxin reduction;...

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Resource Review

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

A Different Strategy: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within the Zambia National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Strategy
INGENAES Project, June 2017.
Competency Framework for Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services
INGENEAS, August 2017.
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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.
PHFS Launch parade figures
Partnership for HIV-Free Survival
Members of a hygiene monitoring unit in Keur Socé, in Kaolack Department work on their action-plan to for how they will monitor hygiene in their communities.
Promoting Hygiene and Hand-Washing through Community Hygiene Monitoring Units
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Featured Publications

Use SPRING's publications to learn about evidence, best practices, and policies for improving nutrition.
A mother holds her baby up in the air. Both look happy. The mother smiles at the baby. The baby smiles at the camera.
Reports | August 2017
Bangladesh: Final Country Report
Saidi Abdullai and her 10-month old baby, Basharia. Saidi is a member of the Rahama mother-to-mother support group in Ningi village in Bauchi, Nigeria.
Reports | March 2017
Nigeria: Final Country Report 2012-2016
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