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Our publications curate evidence, best practices, and policies to help improve nutrition through health, agriculture, and economic development programs.

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Photo of an older woman holding holding a baby to be spoon-fed by a younger woman.
Reports | September 2018
Kyrgyz Republic: Final Country Report
Photo of a group of women holding up SPRING nutrition counseling materials.
Success Stories | September 2018
Supportive Families Enable Healthy Mothers and Thriving Babies
SPRING-trained mediators
Reports | August 2018
The Value-Add of Community Video in Changing Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors: Evidence from a Comparative Study in Senegal
Photo of three men and two women working on making a video
Reports | August 2018
Guinea Final Country Report
Photo of a man and woman posing outside with their infant child
Reports | August 2018
Sierra Leone Final Country Report
Cover photo: A mother and father with their child, sitting outside on a bench consulting with a health worker. Photo: Abdoul Khalighi Diallo for SPRING.
Reports | July 2018
Guinea: Formative Assessment of Household Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition and Hygiene Practices
Photo of a group of smiling women wearing SPRING projects shirts.
Reports | July 2018
Senegal: Final Country Report
Photo of a mother and her child looking over materials and receiving counseling from two health professionals
Briefs | July 2018
Adapting Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions to Meet Audience and Partner Needs
Cover photo: a young mother holding her smiling child in a clinic
Reports | June 2018
Uganda Final Country Report
Photo of a group of adolescents smiling and huddling together to pose.
Briefs | June 2018
Engaging Adolescents to Accelerate Progress on the First 1,000 Days
Photo of a mother carrying her child on her back.
Briefs | June 2018
Moving Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Forward
Cover illustration: a woman giving a slide show/power point demonstration to a group of mothers and fathers with their children
Training Materials | May 2018
India Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Community Nutrition Training
Photo of a group of women meeting
Job Aids and Tools | May 2018
Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Strategy Library
Image of the poster - see PDF for details
Posters | May 2018
Combining Health and Agriculture Formative Research to Improve Dietary Diversity
Photo of a woman posing in front of a SPRING banner. Caption: "Firuza poses with a SPRING banner at a training for volunteer coordinators."
Success Stories | May 2018
Be the Change You Want to See
Photo of three women looking at the toolkit materials.
Training Materials | April 2018
Training Community Volunteers on Nutrition and Hygiene Module Toolkit
Photo of a mother holding her child wrapped in a blanket on her back.
Reports | April 2018
Ghana: Final Country Report
Photo of a child washing her hands with a tippy tap as several other children look on. Caption: "Children in the village of Touba Mourid have fun practicing proper hygiene by washing their hands at a special handwashing station or tippy tap."
Success Stories | March 2018
Hygiene Champions Improve Health in Senegal, One Village at a Time
Cover image featuring row of illustrated girls and page title.
Reports | March 2018
Diet and Eating Practices among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Cover image featuring a film crew making a community video.
Reports | March 2018
Community Media for Social and Behavior Change
Photo of a gathering of women sitting in a circle with counseling materials sitting on the grass in the foreground
Reports | February 2018
The Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package in Kaduna State, Nigeria
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
Photograph of a group of women in India using instructional cards
Reports | February 2018
Using Farming Families’ Perspectives to Inform Recommended Priority Practices
Page 1 [figure] Coat of arms for Sierra Leone [photos, in center and in upper right] Two different kinds of pumpkin [title] Best Agronomic Practices for Pumpkin [logos] USAID logo: "USAID: United States Agency [for] International Development. USAID. From the American People" SPRING logo: “SPRING. Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally”
Job Aids and Tools | January 2018
Counseling Cards: Best Agronomic Practices for Pumpkin - Sierra Leone
Photo of about a dozen women with their children and several facilitators sitting outside in chairs for a mother-to-mother support group meeting in Ghana
Training Materials | January 2018
Facilitator's Guide for Conducting Mother-to-Mother Support Group Monthly Meetings in Ghana
Photo of three women smiling as they work a pump to fill a tub with water, a white bull stands to the left.
Briefs | January 2018
Seeing is Believing in Niger: Fourth Round of Data Collection
Cover photo: a woman holding her child sits on a bench talking with a man holding a pen and paper.
Reports | January 2018
Sierra Leone: Barrier Analysis Survey on Fish and Pumpkin
Cover photo: a mother in Sierra Leone bending down, carrying her infant child on her back as she uses a tippy-tap to wash her hands
Reports | January 2018
Shifting Nutrition and Hygiene Behaviors in Sierra Leone Utilizing Trials of Improved Practices
Cover photo: a group of several mothers and their children gathered outside by a tree. Photo by Souleymane Ouattara, Jade Video Production.
Reports | January 2018
The SPRING Community Video Program in East Region, Burkina Faso
A man sits at a desk in a radio station. He is broadcasting.
Briefs | December 2017
The Impact of Radio on Nutrition-Related Knowledge Behaviors in Senegal
Front page of document. Strip of artist renderings of adolescent women from different countries across top. Title of document below.
Reports | December 2017
Report of the Stakeholders Consultation on Adolescent Girls’ Nutrition
Photograph of several women and men looking at notes posted on a large bulletin board and having a discussion. Caption: "CHAIN partners reflect on joint activities they developed during a November 2016 workshop."
Success Stories | December 2017
Finding a Shared Purpose: Strengthening Coordination and Collaboration for Improved Nutrition in Rwanda