Breastfeeding

Activities

A community activist meets with a group of people

SPRING is working at the community level to encourage social and behavior change around nutrition and hygiene, targeting 1,000 day households through various communication channels.

Two women smiling during training

SPRING conducts trainings for health care providers to improve the quality and quantity of nutrition services and counselling throughout the Kyrgyz Republic.

Success Stories

A Family Welfare Visitor uses mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) tape to regularly screen the growth of children in her area.

SPRING recently interviewed Moshammat Dilruba, an FWV from Betagi upazila in Barisal division who has received support from SPRING over the past two years. Dilruba explains that the...

In Durgapur village, a farmer nutrition school graduate and her son tend to the chickens that produce important nutrients for their family.

SPRING has been supporting Durgapur’s FNS since 2012 to improve nutrition and hygiene for pregnant and lactating women and women with children under two through improved access to a more...

Community members learn about the importance of proper infant and young child feeding practices, Utagban community, Edo state.

Recognizing the need for better feeding practices in Utagban, two USAID-funded projects are collaborating to provide nutrition training in the community.SPRING used UNICEF and World Health...

Seitova Raima holding her child

SPRING provided training in infant and young child feeding to an existing network of local community activists to address a knowledge gap in Kyrgyzstan about the importance of exclusive...

Bibiana with her two granddaughters that she is raising.

At 57 years old, Bibiana is a seasoned Village Health Team member (VHT). She has served her community for over 30 years. She is a reputable “village doctor” and the first person whose...

Galleries

One-on-one counseling session, coaches-level training, Jos, Plateau state. 2015

A pictorial review of SPRING's work in Nigeria over three years of implementation.

Participants marching in the streets of Kisoro during the breastfeeding commemoration day.

The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) called for global action to support women to join breastfeeding and work. This is a gallery of photos from the event.

Keywords: Breastfeeding
Location: Uganda
Market women dancing at Kuje Market

SPRING/Nigeria celebrated World Breastfeeding Week in Abuja, traveling to various markets around the city and distributing English and Hausa flyers on infant and young child feeding to...

Keywords: Breastfeeding
Location: Nigeria
Charkalmi Union of Charfession of Bhola District rickshaw rally

Every year during World Breastfeeding Week, SPRING/Bangladesh supports national and regional efforts to raise awareness about breastfeeding.

Keywords: Breastfeeding
Location: Bangladesh

News

Reports

Man teaches another man about nutrition

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...

Woman holding baby with fall trees in the background

The SPRING project in Kyrgyzstan conducted this study in 2014 to gain a better understanding of the dietary practices of families with children under age two and what factors affect family...

Women eating in the shade

This chapter of "Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change Communication for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia" focuses on the effectiveness of Social and...

Breastfeeding

This chapter of "Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change Communication for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia" reviews the effectiveness of social and...

Feeding a young child

This chapter of "Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change Communication for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia" focuses on the effectiveness of Social and...

Training Materials

Diagram of how to hold an infant

Le « Guide provisoire du facilitateur pour la formation du personnel de santé dans les établissements sanitaires » fournit certes une base pour renforcer les capacités de ces derniers à...

Health worker shows a mother proper breastfeeding techiques while the father looks on

Cette « Formation sur site pour le personnel de santé: Assistance-Conseil sur l’Alimentation du Nourrisson et du Jeune Enfant (ANJE)» a été développée avec le support du projet SPRING, en...

Videos

A woman speaks with a doctor at a health clinic

Hassan is preparing to go on a journey. His wife, Maimouna, goes to the health center for her prenatal visit, where a health worker gives her iron and folic acid tablets (IFA) and discusses...

Two women sitting on a rug and talking

Wasila does not feel well, so her mother-in-law and husband take her to the health center, where she learns that she is one-month pregnant. The health worker advises her on practices she...

Health worker and two new mothers sitting on a rug and talking

Zaru visits her friend Aicha, and asks how Aicha is able to combine successfully exclusive breastfeeding with her work.

A Good Start to Breastfeeding

A woman delivers at a health center and breastfeeds her baby immediately after the delivery.

Woman

This video is part of SPRING/Uganda's "Great Mothers, Healthy Children" campaign. These videos form the basis of the video campaign and will be used in the communities to facilitate...

Keywords: Breastfeeding
Location: Uganda
women with young children

This video is part of SPRING/Uganda's "Great Mothers, Healthy Children" campaign. These videos form the basis of the video campaign and will be used in the communities to facilitate...

Events

group photo of particiapants

On March 16-17, 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), SPRING, and the USAID-funded Food and Nutrition...

Case Studies

four people recording for a radio spot

Development Media International (DMI) implemented a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Burkina Faso to measure the impact of mass media on child mortality.

Series

woman holding baby

This review, part of a broader effort by SPRING to support governments and other stakeholders in their delivery of high impact nutrition practices, provides a summary of peer-reviewed...

Pages

Resource Review Summaries

The WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding of infants for six months after birth. Breastmilk contains all the nutrients an infant needs in the first six months of life but is low in iron....

Keywords: Anemia, Breastfeeding
Location: Kenya

In this editorial, the authors make the case for using complex analysis systems longitudinal research to understand how best to empower decision makers for scaling up effective...

Keywords: Breastfeeding