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August 2013
Every year, Uganda joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). This year, the WBW celebration coincided with the launch of the Partnership for HIV Free Survival (PHFS), a global initiative to eliminate new HIV infections ...
August 2013
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...
July 2013
The International Health Economics Association was formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and assist young researchers at the sta...
July 2013
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...
July 2013
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...
July 2013
After facilitating three regional workshops held in Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean, SPRING recently completed its fourth and final Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning Exchange Event (AgN-GLEE) in Washington, D.C.Close to 600 sta...
June 2013
On June 18, 2013, SPRING signed an updated memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) in Bangladesh to achieve the mutual goal of improving the nutritional status of Bangladeshi women and children. This M...
June 2013
In this post on Feed the Future’s blog, Aaron Buchsbaum, Knowledge Management Coordinator for JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc./SPRING, tells a story of a Senegalese farmer, and how Feed the Future’s efforts linking agriculture and nutrition ha...
June 2013
Writing in USAID’s IMPACT Blog, Amanda Pomeroy, Research & Evaluation Advisor for JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., describes how SPRING’s work around nutrition-related non-communicable diseases can help program planners and policy makers bett...
April 2013
SPRING/Bangladesh recently organized a high-profile seminar highlighting its approach to mainstreaming nutrition and hygiene across agriculture and health partners. The seminar had over 90 technical and strategic leads from nutrition, agriculture, an...
April 2013
SPRING is collaborating with the United States Peace Corps’ Office of Program and Training Support, the West Africa Food Security Partnership (WAFSP), and selected Peace Corps countries to implement nutrition interventions in the West Africa sub-regi...
February 2013
SPRING, in collaboration with the European Union, USAID, UNICEF, and Community Connector is supporting the Uganda government’s launch of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) on February 23, 2013. The launch aims to highlight initial success in scaling up high-...
January 2013
Drawing on the multi-sectoral expertise of its diverse partners, SPRING is providing technical leadership in bringing agriculture and nutrition experts together to improve health outcomes in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the ...
December 2012
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...
December 2012
Although global trends indicate a gradual decline in rates of stunting, Nigeria’s rates are increasing. Nigeria has an alarming number of stunted children (41% of Nigerian children under five years of age) and one of the highest rates of stunting in ...
September 2012
On August 8, 2012, SPRING and the WorldFish Center signed a letter of collaboration to improve the health and nutritional status of women and children in Bangladesh. Working together, the organizations will promote the sale and consumption of high-nu...
June 2012
From May 23-24, 2012, the SPRING Project led a nutrition advocacy workshop in Barisal, Bangladesh. Government officials and representatives from local organizations gathered to assess strategies aimed at improving maternal and child nutrition service...
June 2012
In May 2012, The World Bank Group launched the SecureNutrition Platform to bridge operational knowledge gaps between agriculture, food security, and nutrition, while focusing on the following themes:Measurement: How can food security and nutrition be...
June 2012
On May 11, 2012 The SPRING Project began to fill out its timeline…its Facebook timeline, to be precise. Stay up-to-date on current, global nutrition news, events, research & activities by liking our page today!...