Ghana
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Videos
This instructional-based training video was developed by SPRING/Ghana as a video facilitation guide for agriculture extension agents (AEAs) to engage groundnut farmers in northern Ghana on...
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. This video demonstrates how to make enriched mashed yam for feeding children 6-8...
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. In this video, a woman demonstrates how an infant should latch on when breastfeeding.
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. This video demonstrates how to make enriched porridge for feeding children 6-8 months...
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. In this video, a woman demonstrates how to comfortably position a nursing infant using...
Job Aids and Tools
This instructional-based training video was developed by SPRING/Ghana as a job aid for agriculture extension agents (AEAs) to engage groundnut farmers in northern Ghana on some selected...
The WASH 1,000 Photo-Aid depicts a series of behaviors centered on WASH. These behaviors are targeted at 1,000-day households, but the general population can also use them.
News
SPRING/Ghana is maximizing chances for achieving more results from its multi-sectoral nutrition programs by prioritizing implementation in LEAP 1,000 communities.
Location: Ghana
Father-to-Father support groups encourage men to take an active role in the health and nutrition of their families.
SPRING/Ghana is supporting the Ghana Health Service in building the capacity of its health workers and community health volunteers of the Northern Region to tackle the major public health...
Location: Ghana
SPRING/Ghana uses VSLAs so mother-to-mother support groups can improve their economic status with savings and loans to meet immediate needs.
Location: Ghana
SPRING/Ghana is promoting the cultivation and consumption of OFSP and fortified maize as a way of improving vitamin A consumption among 1,000 day households.
Location: Ghana
SPRING/Ghana conducted a training of trainers workshop for district-level trainers to implement the District Assessment Tool for Anemia.
SPRING is distributing nut shellers to communities in Northern Ghana as a demonstration of their ability to save labor for female groundnut and shea nut farmers.
Location: Ghana
SPRING/Ghana hosted a visit from USAID/Ghana and USAID/ DC staff to program sites on November 1–2, 2016.
SPRING/Ghana’s WASH 1,000 approach was featured in a presentation and poster session at the annual WEDC conference.
Training Materials
This 24-minute documentary, filmed in the Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana, summarizes the current status of child undernutrition and the role key local leaders and “their...
Location: Ghana
Success Stories
Residents of the Toroyili community of Ghana’s Tolon District now regularly practice the good hygiene they need for better nutrition and health. But that wasn’t always the case.
Location: Ghana
Funded by USAID, SPRING/Ghana’s scaling up of the UNICEF infant and young child feeding (IYCF) training package in 15 districts in northern Ghana encourages early initiation of...
Location: Ghana
With WhatsApp, nurses and other health workers can turn to colleagues for assistance at any time.
Location: Ghana
Mr. and Mrs. Azaghizo have increased their yield of ground nuts by spontaneously adopting better farming practices taught through farmer field schools.
Reports
Through an in-country review of key actors, mechanisms, and content areas, along with a review of relevant literature, SPRING documented information systems used in Northern Ghana to adopt...
Activities
SPRING works closely with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to strengthen anemia programming.
Galleries
SPRING is distributing a limited number of nut shellers to communities in Northern Ghana as a demonstration of their ability to save labor for female groundnut and shea nut farmers.
Location: Ghana
Infographics
This infographic shows Ghana's continued growth in reach and impact during project year 5 (FY 2016).