Family planning

News

SPRING SBCC Team Lead Peggy Koniz-Booher facilitates a discussion on Referral Systems/Pathways in a breakout session.

Reducing Missed Opportunities in Service Integration for Nutrition, Family Planning, and Immunization

SPRING hosted a joint meeting of the MIYCN-FP Integration and the FP-Immunization Integration Working Groups to discuss ways to further integrate service delivery.

Keywords: Adolescents, Communication, Family planning, Health systems, Infant and young child feeding, Integration
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Expert Reviewers Offer Support for SPRING’s Guidance for Conducting an Anemia Landscape Analysis

Expert input has enhanced SPRING’s guidance tool for assessing anemia at a national level.

Keywords: Anemia, Dietary diversity, Family planning, Fortification, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrition-related non-communicable disease, Nutrition-sensitive, Nutrition-specific, Supplementation, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
SPRING/Senegal Gender Advisor Daba Ndione Beye interacts with training participants.

SPRING Promotes Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment during Producer Organization Training Series

SPRING/Senegal organized a workshop for representatives of partner networks to raise awareness on gender issues and promote men and women as partners in household decision-making for good...

Keywords: Double burden, Family planning, Gender, Integration, Malnutrition, Maternal nutrition, Multi-sector, Social and behavior change communication, Sustainability, Training, Women's empowerment
Location: Senegal

Videos

We see the side of a husband's head in the foreground. His wife is sitting with him and trying to contain a fussy baby who is attempting to squirm out of her arms.

Community Video (Niger): La Planification Familiale Pour un Meilleur Avenir

Mr. Abaché and Aina go meet with the health worker. He explains to them the advantages of breastfeeding as a family planning method, and the process to choose the right method of...

Keywords: Community media, Family planning
Location: Niger, Sahel

Galleries

Group of people sitting outside under a tree

Concept Testing Tailors Community Videos to Local Context in Two Regions in Niger

SPRING and Digital Green used concept testing to gather community input to nutrition and hygiene focused videos in two regions in Niger.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Community media, Complementary feeding, Dietary diversity, Gender, Handwashing, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal nutrition, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrition-sensitive, Family planning, Nutrition-specific, Social and behavior change communication, Thousand days, Training, Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Women's empowerment
Location: Niger

Activities

Women and children sitting outside

Concept Testing Tailors Community Videos to Local Context in Two Regions in Niger

SPRING and Digital Green gathered community input to nutrition and hygiene focused videos in two villages in Niger.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Community media, Complementary feeding, Dietary diversity, Family planning, Gender, Handwashing, Infant and young child feeding, Malnutrition, Maternal nutrition, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrition-sensitive, Nutrition-specific, Social and behavior change communication, Thousand days, Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Women's empowerment
Location: Niger

Resource Review Summaries

MCSP/MCHIP Anemia Prevention and Control Toolkit

The Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project aims to improve family planning and reproductive health services in low- and middle-income countries by working to change the way family planning...

Keywords: Anemia, Family planning

Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition

This report reviews 102 health and multi-sectoral programs that integrate family planning with nutrition and food security interventions. Lessons learned and promising program practices for...

Keywords: Multi-sector, Family planning, Integration, Food security