Budgeting/financing for nutrition
Job Aids and Tools
In 2015, SPRING developed a simple framework for applying systems thinking to nutrition-related actions (figure 1), built off the work in USAID’s paper on local systems (2014b), the United...
Briefs
This brief discusses costing studies for nutrition interventions generally, and highlights how a cost-efficiency study can influence policy decisions.
Working in 13 countries from 2012 to 2018, the SPRING project supported policy processes across social and behavior change communication (SBCC), anemia prevention, food fortification and...
Nutrition budget and expenditure analysis determines how much has been allocated for nutrition over time, by various sources, and at the national and sub-national level. The USAID-funded...
Between 2013 and 2015 the USAID-funded multisectoral SPRING project conducted a rigorous analysis of publicly available data on funding and expenditures for nutrition.
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...
Reports
Executive Summary
Recognizing the important role of financial analysis for nutrition, SPRING partnered with the SUN Movement, R4D, and MQSUN to organize a technical consultation to harmonize guidance for...
Nepal’s Multi-sector Plan of Action for Nutrition, 2013-2017 (MSNP) provides a unique opportunity to understand how nutrition policy is translated into action. SPRING’s two-year Pathways to...
News
As part of a continued effort to increase the reach of SPRING’s nutrition financing and budget analysis resources, SPRING conducted a workshop in Washington, DC on the 2018 nutrition budget...
SPRING/Uganda staff shared the project’s achievements at a legacy event in Kampala.
Location: Uganda
SPRING shared findings and recommendations at the 2017 International Health Economics Association World Congress in Boston on how to ensure nutrition policy translates to financing and...
Location: Uganda, Nepal
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’s PBN Case Study supported the Nepali Delegation at the Public Finance for Nutrition in Asia (PF4N) workshop.
Events
SPRING is hosting a workshop on our methodology and tool to track nutrition funding.
Malnutrition is a leading cause of many health problems across the globe, yet current funding is insufficient to address the problem.
SPRING and USAID held this global dissemination event to share the results of SPRING's Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) Case Studies.
Infographics
This infographic summarizes a report that synthesizes information from 11 countries to better understand how they have used findings from their budget analysis activities to improve...
Through our project’s Pathways to Better Nutrition Case Studies in Uganda and Nepal, we developed 10 recommendations for how countries can translate their multi-sectoral nutrition policies...
Success Stories
When Sanatu Fuseini received a loan of 200 Ghanaian cedis ($50) from her village savings and loan association (VSLA), she was beside herself with joy. Sanatu, a mother of four, had always...
Journal Articles
USAID’s SPRING project has developed an approach that countries can use to bridge the gap between primary data collection and developing more routine systems. In this article, challenges...
SPRING Pathways to Better Nutrition (PBN) case studies documented successes and challenges in implementing NNAPs in Nepal and Uganda at national and sub-national level. A longitudinal,...
Background: Global commitments to nutrition have supported calls for better evidence to support effective investments at national level.
The 2011 Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAP) established 2016 maternal and child nutrition targets. However, there is a lack of routine district-level data collection to assess UNAP...
In 2010, Uganda began developing its first multisectoral nutrition plan, the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAP), to reduce malnutrition. While the UNAP signals high-level commitment to...
Based on the data collected in Uganda, Nepal, and Ethiopia, the papers included in this supplement fill a critical gap in evidence regarding multisectoral National Nutrition Action Plans....
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...
Galleries
In June 2016, SPRING, in partnership with USAID's Bureau for Food Security and Bureau for Global Health, hosted the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy Global Learning & Evidence Exchange...