Guinea
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Reports
Executive Summary
Introduction
As part of USAID’s Ebola recovery efforts, USAID/Guinea and USAID/Washington’s Bureau for Food Security (BFS) requested that the SPRING conduct a nutrition assessment to identify key...
Videos
This video highlights learning and experience from SPRING's diverse community media portfolio through four key principles with examples of each principle in action, using various types of...
Location: India, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, Ghana, Uganda
In 2016, SPRING introduced the community video approach in Guinea working with our local partner, Winrock International and Digital Green. Through a rapid formative research process, SPRING...
In 2016, SPRING introduced the community video approach in Guinea working with our local partner, Winrock International and Digital Green. Through a rapid formative research process, SPRING...
The doctor at a health center greets a new mother and explains to her that when a baby is born they should immediately be breastfed, and that they should only receive breastmilk until they...
A community health worker comes across a man who is doing something he hasn’t seen before. When he asks, the man explains that he is drying potato leaves that he will be able to save in...
Tenin is a pregnant woman in Tindo, Guinea. One day, the local community health worker (CHW) stops by her compound and speaks with her and her husband. The CHW tells Tenin’s husband that he...
Gnalen shows her mother a platter of diverse foods that she will feed her son, including peanuts, dried fish, eggs, avocado, and milk, and describes how she will prepare these foods as part...
Yate, a mother in Tindo, Guinea whose young child was up the night before, sick from diarrhea, learns from her neighbor about proper handwashing.
News
This workshop provided guidance on developing high-quality visuals for partner organizations in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
As SPRING closes its program in Guinea, key partners from the governmental and non-governmental sectors were invited to learn more about the program’s successes and legacy.
Location: Guinea
SPRING shared its SPRING/Guinea Social and Behavior Change (SBC) approaches at the ICTforAg 2017 conference during a session entitled "Multi-Channel Communications in Hard-to-Reach Places."
SPRING/Guinea trained staff from community radio stations on developing effective interactive radio programming supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices.
SPRING/Guinea tested and refined a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training package.
SPRING/Guinea and FRI conducted an assessment to develop an interactive rural radio strategy that the SMARTE project can use to encourage nutrition-sensitive and specific practices.
Location: Guinea
Faculty and students of Guinea’s agricultural university, along with NGO partners, participated in a SPRING training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture concepts.
Multi-Sectoral Global Learning and Evidence Exchange, West Africa shares research and experience in multi-sectoral nutrition programming.
Location: Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Liberia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Burkina Faso
Galleries
In May 2017, staff from SPRING/Sierra Leone visited Faranah, Guinea to learn about SPRING/Guinea.
Participants’ work from SPRING’s Photo-to-Illustration workshop in Guinea highlight the technique’s uses for high quality visual materials.
SPRING/Guinea provided training on production and dissemination of community videos for MIYCF, hygiene, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture to community agents in Faranah and Mamou, Guinea.
Location: Guinea
SPRING facilitated a training on the photo-to-illustration process for 16 participants in Conakry, Guinea.
SPRING/Guinea hosted partners at a sharing event that highlighted program successes and raised awareness of local resources developed by SPRING.
SPRING/Guinea conducted a training for Peace Corps health and agroforestry volunteers in Guinea on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices.
Location: Guinea
SPRING trained community video and radio staff on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Mamou, Guinea.
SPRING tested a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training curriculum with staff from Feed the Future’s SMARTE for the AVENIR program in Guinea.
Posters
This poster explains SPRING's community video approach as part social and behavior change communication.
Location: India, Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Sahel
Activities
SPRING/Guinea tested an approach to grow cowpeas during the off-season to see if they could achieve sufficient yields to serve as a source of protein.
Location: Guinea
Findings to guide SPRING’s work to strengthen nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Guinea