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On September 14-15, three SPRING staff presented at the Catholic Relief Services' 2015 Integrated Nutrition Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, contributing to the international dialogue around integrated strategies to improve nutritional outcomes. This co...

In August, The Acting Administrator for USAID, Mr. Alfonso E. Lenhardt, visited a SPRING/Bangladesh Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) in Mulghar Union of Fakirhat Upazila in Bagerhat District. He was accompanied by the USAID/Bangladesh Mission Director, ...

In Nigeria, the USAID-funded SPRING project is collaborating with PEPFAR-funded implementing partners who are Nigerian NGOs and CSOs that work with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and Nigerian federal and state governments to help prepare the c...

In Uganda, SPRING joined other nutrition stakeholders in the country to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) from 1st -7th August 2015. The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) started WBW in 1992 with the vision of a world where breast...

During a World Population Day event on July 11, the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) recognized SPRING/Bangladesh’s exceptional efforts in Banaripara upazila of Barisal district. The GOB celebrated World Population Day by organizing multiple events acr...

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...

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), coordinated by World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), is celebrated every year from 1-7 August in more than 120 countries. With the vision of a world where breastfeeding is the cultural norm, WABA observed the...

SPRING will present its work on nutrition financing at two major international conferences in July 2015. For the last several years, SPRING has worked to develop more accurate estimates of national and sub-national multisectoral nutrition funding com...

Through a “seeds hand-over” ceremony on Sunday, May 24, 2015, the USAID-funded SPRING and SHIKHA projects formalized their letter of collaboration (LOC) committing them to work together to ensure that important information on dietary diversity reache...

On April 5, 2015, SPRING welcomed a USAID delegation—led by Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator of USAID, and Michael Green, Mission Director, and including representatives from USAID’s Country Office and offices of Economic Development, Health...

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 ...

SPRING/Ghana’s activities aim to accelerate reductions in stunting and anemia in Northern Ghana. One critical aspect of SPRING’s intervention areas is to improve delivery of high-impact nutrition services. Service delivery and confidence in those ser...

“Collaborating for Results” is the name of a recent agricultural meeting that brought together project and thought leaders to foster dialogue on innovative ways to effectively collaborate toward greater results and to facilitate the achievement of th...

The Kyrgyz Republic has recognized that anemia rates in the country are too high, and is committed to improving anemia especially among pregnant and lactating women and children under two years of age. To support this endeavor, a meeting of the Clini...

"Addressing anemia often requires an integrated approach to effectively combat it," remarked Dr. Acheng Jane Ruth, the Director General of Health Services during her opening remarks at the Multisectoral Anemia Stakeholders' Meeting in Kampala. The me...

On March 19, 2015, the U.S. Agency for International Development officially launched SPRING in the Kyrgyz Republic. The launch was attended by the Ministries of Health, Agriculture, and Education, and national health organizations, members of parliam...

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...

The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) highlighted SPRING in the recent edition of their Field Exchange publication. The article opened with an overview of the SPRING project and then continued with a description of SPRING’s main areas of work.ENN ask...

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 ...

Last week, SPRING/Bangladesh had the privilege of participating in the 14th World Congress on Public Health in Kolkata, India. SPRING/Bangladesh's divisional manager for Khulna, Mr. Md. Nazmul Huda, presented as part of a concurrent panel discussion ...

SPRING and the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) organized a multisectoral training workshop from February 9-11 at Bonita Training Center in Wakiso District, Uganda. The purpose of the workshop was to strengthen the Uganda Nutrition Action...

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...

On December 18, 2014, in the capital Bishkek, key members of the Kyrgyz nutrition community discussed ways to promote positive nutrition messages in the country. Participants included attendees from the Republican Center for Health Promotion (RCHP), ...

SPRING/Uganda recently launched an innovative campaign called “Great Mothers, Healthy Children” in the Kisoro and Ntungamo districts of Southwest Uganda. The campaign contains video testimonials designed to influence the nutrition practices of mother...

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...

SPRING/Bangladesh is committed to advocating the importance of handwashing. As a central component of its work, SPRING works hand in hand with the Government of Bangladesh and with rural communities to ensure that handwashing is prioritized, that its...

Each year, World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated all over the world with diverse activities to sensitize the general public and promote breastfeeding.SPRING/Nigeria celebrated the event in Abuja, traveling to various markets around the city and dist...

Every year during World Breastfeeding Week, SPRING/Bangladesh supports national and regional efforts to raise awareness about breastfeeding.This year’s festivities received additional attention compared to previous years, as the Honorable Prime Minis...

SPRING has just completed a series of baseline national level interviews for the "Pathways to Better Nutrition" (PBN) longitudinal case study in Nepal, which kicks off field work for this two-year study. SPRING is interested in finding out how the Ne...

SPRING/Nigeria is implementing a training cascade of the national Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Training Package, which focuses on three levels of expertise and ends with the formation of community support groups. The second trainin...

SPRING/Nigeria organized a five-day facility infant and young child feeding (F-IYCF) training to strengthen the capacity of health workers in secondary and tertiary health facilities in Otukpo, Benue State. The F-IYCF training, formally launched in A...

In late May of 2014, international leaders from the public health and private sectors gathered for the first ever Feed the Future Global Forum. Cambodian agricultural officials shared space with Feed the Future project implementers from Tajikistan, a...

On May 22, 2014, USAID released the 2014-2025 Multi-sectoral Nutrition Strategy, a defining moment for the global nutrition community. Recognizing an urgent need to address the direct and underlying causes of malnutrition, USAID developed this strate...

In 2013, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) of Nigeria led a process to produce training materials on community infant and young child feeding (CIYCF). The CIYCF package—which included counseling cards, a key message booklet, participant ...

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...

On February 18, 2014, the Ministry of Health (MOH) Nutrition Directorate in Haiti, with support from SPRING/Haiti, held a one-day meeting with 42 nutrition partners from 17 partner institutions, including USAID, to develop a multisectoral strategy to...

Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCES)—a collective term for multi-purpose household surveys—are a valuable resource for understanding food consumption patterns and nutrient intakes and identifying communities where nutrition interventi...

How better to show SPRING’s ongoing work in Bangladesh than to ask the US Ambassador and the USAID Mission Director to participate in a refresher homestead food production course for local women?Surrounded by close to 40 individuals – project leaders...

Nutrition is a key focus area for Peace Corps/Guinea’s Feed the Future program, making a collaboration between Peace Corps/Guinea and SPRING a natural fit. SPRING provided support to implement and monitor nutrition and nutrition-sensitive interventio...

The first ever Bushenyi Nutrition Marathon took place on Saturday, November 30th, 2013, with enthusiasm and hope for Uganda’s future from start to finish.Initiated by the Honorable Mary Karooro Okurut, Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Developmen...

Uganda, like many other countries, is facing competing demands for time, human resources, and funding within the realm of nutrition programming. In order to address the diverse priorities named by the international agreements to which Uganda is a sig...

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...

“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” - UnknownUniversal Children’s Day was first proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on November 20th, 1954, stipulating that “the obligations of the United Nations to succeeding g...

“Addressing anemia really is a multisectoral challenge,” remarked BethAnne Moskov, Deputy Director of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition in USAID’s Global Health Bureau in her opening speech to the participants of the Multisecto...

Although national vitamin A campaigns have resulted in over 80% coverage of vitamin A distribution throughout Bangladesh, pregnant and lactating women, infants, and young children still consume diets that are not sufficient in vitamin A, with serious...

Over three days in August 2013, a group of 27 Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), Regional Nutrition Coordinators, and Peace Corps (PC) country office staff gathered at the Paradise Hotel in Banjul, The Gambia for training in essential nutrition actions a...

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is celebrated annually in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding to improve babies’ health and help prevent death among children under five. Although the World Health Organization recommends that all infants...

Although substantial progress has been made against anemia in Uganda, it still exists as a sizable public health problem, especially amongst women of reproductive age and children under 5. To reinvigorate efforts to reduce anemia, SPRING facilitated ...

Some of the best and brightest nutrition minds gathered from across the world, convening in Granada, Spain, over six days in September for the 20th International Congress on Nutrition (ICN). In addition to 12 original research posters or presentation...