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Global Nutrition Experts Gather to Discuss the Evidence on Effective Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Policy
At this event, global experts detailed how stakeholders can use this research to advocate for nutrition policies and funding.
SPRING M&E Specialist Alexis D’Agostino presents on nutrition financial analysis at the Global Health & Innovation Conference.
SPRING representatives led sessions on multi-sectoral nutrition programming, anemia, and nutrition budget tracking at the East Africa MSN-GLEE in March, 2016.
The Ministry of Health, in conjunction with Namutumba District leadership and the SPRING project, host a launch event in Namutumba District.
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Africa, in collaboration with IBFAN Uganda and the Government of Uganda, hosted the IBFAN Africa Regional Conference 2016 in Kampala.
Location: Uganda
During three dissemination events, SPRING released the much-awaited results from the PBN study in Uganda.
At the close of the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project’s fourth year of implementation, the project continued to reach a growing...
Series
SPRING’s Pathways to Better Nutrition Case Studies provide new evidence to help countries understand how nutrition-related activities are prioritized and funded, focusing on the effect that...
Videos
SPRING’s Pathways to Better Nutrition Case Studies provide new evidence to help countries understand how nutrition-related activities are prioritized and funded, focusing on the effect that...
Levi Jean Kabatabarukye, the Quality Control Manager at BIDCO, shares the company's rationale for selling fortified oil in small sachets.
Levi Jean Kabatabarukye, the Quality Control Manager at BIDCO, describes the USAID-funded SPRING project's efforts to support industrial fortification in Uganda.
Reports
SPRING’s two-year (2014-2016) Pathways to Better Nutrition case study draws on qualitative and quantitative data to provide a 360-degree view of the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAP)...
In May and July 2014, follow-up surveys to the 2013 SPRING household baseline survey were separately conducted in each region after a period of one year among the intervention (Kisoro and...
Briefs
The overall goal of these “Pathways to Better Nutrition” case studies is to provide insight into how NNAP activities are prioritized across sectors, and how that prioritization affects the...
In Lira and Kisoro districts, as with the national Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) study, we used qualitative, budget, and secondary survey data to ask how nutrition prioritization...
With support from SPRING, Deutshe Stiftung Weltbevoloelkerung (DSW) prepared this district budget analysis for the “Pathways to Better Nutrition” (PBN) case study to generate evidence on...
With support from SPRING, Deutshe Stiftung Weltbevoloelkerung (DSW) prepared this district budget analysis for the “Pathways to Better Nutrition” (PBN) case study to generate evidence on...
This brief highlights work undertaken in Lira and Kisoro to estimate the amount of funding going toward nutrition‐related activities across funders and sectors during the study period. The...
SPRING has adapted guidance from several sources to develop a methodology for extracting nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive funding data from donor and government budget documents.
This technical brief includes information on the strategic approaches we used, the achievements attained, lessons learned, and challenges encountered in program implementation in the...
Galleries
This past January, I visited the BIDCO factory with two colleagues from the SPRING/Uganda office for a first-hand look at how SPRING’s upstream work with the fortification industry helps to...
SPRING/Uganda is implementing a micronutrient powder (MNP) program
On March 15th, 2015 in Nsinze Sub-Country, Namutumba District, Uganda’s Ministry of Health—in conjunction with Namutumba District leadership, SPRING, World Food Programme, and UNICEF—...
Women are at the heart of our work to improve nutrition. In this collection of photos, SPRING staff from around the world are celebrating International Women's Day 2016 and pledging to take...
SPRING/Uganda, the Government of Uganda, UNICEF, and the WFP launched the Vitamin and Mineral Powder Program to address micronutrient deficiencies through home food fortification.
Infographics
This infographic shows SPRING/Uganda's continued growth in reach and impact during the first half of project year 5 (FY 2016).
As the SPRING office reached its fourth full year of implementation in Uganda, the project prepared to shift focus from the district
Posters
he results of the PBN study found that, in both countries, the national plan has played an important role in increasing knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors related to planning and...
Events
Nutrition-related social and behavior change communication (SBCC) can help improve the nutritional status of children during the first 1,000 days.