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.
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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.

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Country Highlights

SPRING/Uganda

SPRING/Uganda directly supports and implements activities and policies related to large-scale food fortification to address stunting and micronutrient deficiencies, anemia reduction through multi-sectoral coordination, the introduction of a micronutrient powder (MNP) program in Namutumba District,...

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Resource Review

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

Balancing the Systems: Making Food & Market Systems Work for Nutrition
ACDI/VOCA, February 2018.
Climate Change through a Gendered Lens: Examining Livestock Holder Food Security
McKune, S., Borrensen, E., Young, A., Auria Ryley, T., Russo, S., Diao Camara, A., Coleman, M., and Ryan, E. Global Food Security (November 2015) Vol. 6 pp. 1-8.
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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.
One NRVCC studied in Bangladesh was the orange-flesh sweet potato, which were introduced as a nutritious food source by a Feed the Future project.
Researching a New Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture Indicator: NRVCC Fieldwork
SPRING/Bangladesh staff collecting coordinates
Mapping Nutrition in SPRING's Working Upazilas
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Featured Publications

Use SPRING's publications to learn about evidence, best practices, and policies for improving nutrition.
Two men sit together, one behind the other. The man in front holds a video camera and looks at it intensely. The man behind looks wears headphones and has a laptop in his lap. He looks over the first man's shoulder at the camera.
Job Aids and Tools | June 2017
The Strategic Agenda for At-Scale Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication
Front cover [title] Photo-to-Illustration Guide A Resource for the Development of Health Communication Visual Materials [cover illustration] Foreground: a collage of nine illustrations of mothers with their children or by themselves. "USAID." SPRING logo”
Job Aids and Tools | February 2018
Photo-to-Illustration Guide
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