Bangladesh
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News
SPRING/Bangladesh celebrated World Breastfeeding Week from August 1-7, 2014 through a variety of community outreach activities, including rickshaw rallies, technical discussions, ‘miking’,...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dan Mozena, and USAID Mission Director, Janina Jaruzelski, visited a SPRING farmer field school to learn first-hand about nutrition efforts.
SPRING and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Bangladesh celebrated the National Vitamin A Plus Campaign as part of on-going, national efforts to raise awareness about diseases...
SPRING/Bangladesh joined with national and local partners during World Breastfeeding Week to promote exclusive breastfeeding.
Amanda Pomeroy, SPRING’s Research and Evaluation Officer/JSI, presents at the at the 9th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, July 6-10th, 2013 in Sydney,...
SPRING delegates will attend the IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition, one of the most prestigious international nutrition conferences.
SPRING signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) to improve nutritional status of Bangladeshi women and children.
SPRING/Bangladesh recently organized a high-profile seminar highlighting its approach to mainstreaming nutrition and hygiene across agriculture and health partners.
SPRING and the WorldFish Center signed a Letter of Collaboration to improve the nutritional status of women and children in Bangladesh...
From May 23-24, 2012, the SPRING Project led a nutrition advocacy workshop in Barisal...
Reports
A focus group discussion (FGD) approach was selected to investigate social norms and perceptions about men’s market behavior in rural Bangladesh. The purpose of the focus group was to...
This Phase I report describes a simulation model for early-life nutrition linkages to noncommunicable disease (ELN-NCD) that SPRING developed to yield a more complete understanding of the...
Case Studies
SPRING builds on international experiences in several sectors to design Bangladesh-specific interventions and innovations by targeting health and agricultural workers within the GOB and...
Training Materials
These training materials include a set of reference tools to be used at the community level to promote and support improved nutrition practices.
Posters
Understanding food consumption patterns and nutrient intakes is essential for informing evidence-based food and nutrition policies, yet the international food and nutrition community faces...
The findings of this study suggest that women in Bangladesh value food production skills training as the single most important motivating factor for homestead production.
Location: Bangladesh
Current knowledge suggests that including Essential Hygiene Actions in nutrition interventions has potential to contribute to better nutrition outcomes.
Galleries
SPRING/Bangladesh recently organized a high-profile seminar highlighting its approach to mainstreaming nutrition and hygiene across agriculture and health partners.
SPRING is highly committed to supporting the Government of Bangladesh and provides technical and logistical support for arranging national events like World Breastfeeding Week (WBW).
SPRING supported upazila health and family planning departments by providing outreach services to communities and helping with intensive community mobilization (including making public ser
Activities
SPRING is the first nutrition project to scale up tippy taps to rural communities in Bangladesh and is currently assessing the uptake of these practices and their likelihood to improve...
Promoting Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) and Essential Hygiene Actions (EHA) has been a major component of SPRING’s work in Bangladesh. During the first two years of implementation,...
SPRING uses its Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) model of group-based learning for resource-poor households to improve their production and consumption of diversified, micronutrient-rich foods...
Journal Articles
Vitamin A deficiency is a serious health problem in Bangladesh. In the absence of nationally-representative, individual dietary assessment data, the authors used household income and...
Job Aids and Tools
SPRING/Bangladesh is collaborating with the Government of Bangladesh to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition in Bangladesh. This poster provides practical examples of...
Handwashing with soap at critical times prevents families from getting diarrhea and other diseases. “Tippy taps” are simple (and usually free) devices that serve as a convenient access...
Field Notes
This field note examines the SPRING/Bangladesh project and its training of project and government agents to deliver nutrition and hygiene messages alongside agricultural interventions at...
Success Stories
Rajopa is a housewife living with her husband, a day laborer, and their four children in the Charkhalifa village of Barisal Division in the southern delta region of Bangladesh. For years,...
Jesmin is a community health care provider at the Krisnakathi Community Clinic in the southern delta region of Bangladesh. Her training did not prepare her to counsel new mothers,...
Videos
In March 2013, the SPRING project hosted an Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (AgN-GLEE) event entitled Strengthened and Sustainable Linkages among Agriculture...