Guinea

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Reports

Woman stands in front of produce stand

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

Photo of a group of women and men gathering to look at a flyer on handwashing.

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...

Photo of a woman and two men working with farming tools in front of trees and plant beds.

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...

Keywords: Community media
Location: Guinea
Photo of a woman and two men working with farming tools in front of trees and plant beds.

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...

Keywords: Community media
Location: Guinea
Two women sit side-by-side on a bench. One woman is telling the other to exclusively breastfeed.

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...

Keywords: Breastfeeding
Location: Guinea
One man holds a tray of leaves for drying while another touches the leaves and asks about them.

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...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Guinea
A health worker, pregnant woman, and the pregnant woman's husband sit together on a bench and talk.

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...

Keywords: Maternal nutrition
Location: Guinea
A mother prepares healthy food for her baby. The grandmother, holding the fussy baby, looks on.

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...

Keywords: Complementary feeding
Location: Guinea
A woman washes her hands at a tippy tap hung from a tree branch

Yate, a mother in Tindo, Guinea whose young child was up the night before, sick from diarrhea, learns from her neighbor about proper handwashing.

Keywords: Handwashing
Location: Guinea

News

A group of artists gathers around the trainer who is demonstrating how to trace an image.

This workshop provided guidance on developing high-quality visuals for partner organizations in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Photo showing the learning event in which partners from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, UNICEF, USAID, Plan International, Catholic Relief Services, PSI, US Peace Corps and representatives of the Guinean press were on hand for demonstrations of various resources.

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.

One man kneels and looks at the screen of a video camera. Two women and two men lean over his shoulder to also see the screen.

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."

Four women sit in a close group on benches outside. The woman at the center-front is holding a microphone up to the woman in the center-back.

SPRING/Guinea trained staff from community radio stations on developing effective interactive radio programming supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices.

A man tapes documents to a yellow wall.

SPRING/Guinea tested and refined a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training package.

Focus groups meet to answer questions from SPRING and FRI

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.

Seasonal calendar exercise during the nutrition-sensitive agriculture training

Faculty and students of Guinea’s agricultural university, along with NGO partners, participated in a SPRING training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture concepts.

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Multi-Sectoral Global Learning and Evidence Exchange, West Africa shares research and experience in multi-sectoral nutrition programming.

Galleries

Illustration where a woman makes a purchase from a vendor

Participants’ work from SPRING’s Photo-to-Illustration workshop in Guinea highlight the technique’s uses for high quality visual materials.

Twelve agents were trained in video production. One is a professional videographer.

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.

Victor provides guidance to Oury Barry, IT Manager for Peace Corps Guinea, on Photoshop skills.

SPRING facilitated a training on the photo-to-illustration process for 16 participants in Conakry, Guinea.

UNICEF’s C4D Officer Miracle Korkalo Saoromou (foreground) and CRS’ Head of Programs Amy Daffé (background)

SPRING/Guinea hosted partners at a sharing event that highlighted program successes and raised awareness of local resources developed by SPRING.

Keywords: Community media
Location: Guinea
A group works together to practice proper breastfeeding techniques.

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.

All of the workshop participants display their completion certificates.

SPRING trained community video and radio staff on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Mamou, Guinea.

Staff participants discuss improved technologies within the rice value chain.

SPRING tested a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training curriculum with staff from Feed the Future’s SMARTE for the AVENIR program in Guinea.

Posters

Participatory Community-Led Video Approach Catalyzes Social and Behavior Change for Nutrition

This poster explains SPRING's community video approach as part social and behavior change communication.

Activities

Harvesting cowpeas

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.

Pages

Resource Review Summaries

ACF International has newly released 3 case studies based on ACF innovative nutrition-sensitive interventions, in Liberia, Guinea and Pakista that complete the 3 previously released in 2012...