A primary aspect of SPRING’s work in Senegal focuses on making agricultural interventions more nutrition-sensitive. Over the course of the first workshop, SPRING/Senegal staff completed a seasonal calendar, identified nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices, and prioritized nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions among partner programs. This first workshop laid the foundation for the second workshop, which was conducted with local implementing partners, Caritas and FEPROMAS.
SPRING/Senegal Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Workshop
 Participants from the first workshop, which included all SPRING/Senegal technical staff. |
 Groups worked diligently to identify micronutrients and macronutrients within local foods. |
 Groups worked together to determine whether images depicting local practices were nutrition-specific or nutrition-sensitive. |
 Workshop participants passionately debated local practices along the production pathway, and how to make aspects along the pathway more nutrition-sensitive. |
 Tom van Mourik of HKI/Senegal presented the seasonal calendar template to workshop participants. |
 Groups worked together to complete a seasonal calendar identifying practices within their given agroecological zone. |
 SPRING/Senegal Deputy Chief of Party, Elisabeth Benga-De, presents her group’s seasonal calendar. |
 Albert Yéra Boubane, Mass Media Officer, presents his group's seasonal calendar. |
 At the end of the workshop, participants discussed key practices among partner programs that could facilitate future SPRING/Senegal programming. |
 Agriculture experts, Aliou Babou, Madeleine Smith, and Tom van Mourik were excellent workshop facilitators! |
 Grace Ezan, ENA/EHA Advisor, provides a background of the nutrition environment within the SPRING/Senegal program zone of influence. |
 Mamadou Ba, Marketing Officer, presents the macronutrient and micronutrient contents of local foods. |
 Aliou Babou, Agriculture Advisor, guides workshop participants through the identification of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive practices. |
 Mamadou Ba, Marketing Officer, records workshop participants’ responses to questions regarding seasonal activities throughout the year. |
 The SPRING/Senegal and partner organization, FEPROMAS, workshop team! |
