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SPRING Presents for International Women’s Day

SPRING presented at the 1,000 Days Advocacy Working Group Meeting on six years of work highlighting gender equity for improved nutrition.

Keywords: Adolescents, Agriculture, Gender, Communication, Nutrition-sensitive, Social and behavior change communication, Thousand days, Training, Women's empowerment

SPRING Publishes a Series Exploring Experiences and Lessons Learned for Operationalizing Micronutrient Powders

Key participants of the Micronutrient Powders Consultation wrote a series of three articles to discuss and elevate the literature on micronutrient powder implementation research.

Keywords: Micronutrient, Anemia, Communication, Social and behavior change communication, Gender, Health systems, Maternal nutrition, Supplementation, Training

Celebrating 18 Months of Implementation: SPRING/Senegal Holds Close-out Ceremonies in Kaolack and Dakar

SPRING/Senegal organized two close-out ceremonies in Kaolack and in Dakar to showcase 18 months of implementation in the areas of nutrition-sensitive agriculture, SBCC, gender, and WASH.

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Social and behavior change communication, Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Nutrition-sensitive
Location: Senegal

USAID and SPRING/Senegal Staff Visit Community Partners’ Projects

The group visited one of SPRING’s partner radio stations, micro-gardens, and chicken coops, and observed a community video dissemination.

Keywords: Handwashing, Agriculture, Nutrition-sensitive, Gender, Community media, Dietary diversity, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Social and behavior change communication
Location: Senegal

Supporting Fathers and Empowering Families in Ghana

Father-to-Father support groups encourage men to take an active role in the health and nutrition of their families.

Keywords: Community mobilization, Communication, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Gender, Social and behavior change communication, Training, Women's empowerment
Location: Ghana

SPRING/Ghana Adopts VSLAs to Economically Empower Women

SPRING/Ghana uses VSLAs so mother-to-mother support groups can improve their economic status with savings and loans to meet immediate needs.

Keywords: Gender, Social and behavior change communication, Sustainability, Training, Women's empowerment
Location: Ghana

International Women's Day 2017: Why Gender in the Workplace Goes Beyond the Office

This International Women's Day, SPRING shows its appreciation for women around the world, honoring their achievements and recognizing the contributions they make to healthy families,...

Keywords: Gender

SPRING Shares Work in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture at INGENAES Global Symposium

Victor Pinga and Sarah Hogan attended the INGENAES Global Symposium to share our nutrition-sensitive agriculture work.

Keywords: Nutrition-sensitive, Agriculture, Gender, Training, Social and behavior change communication
Location: India, Zambia

Distributing Nut Shellers to Reduce Women’s Labor in Northern Ghana

SPRING is distributing nut shellers to communities in Northern Ghana as a demonstration of their ability to save labor for female groundnut and shea nut farmers.

Keywords: Aflatoxin, Agriculture, Dietary diversity, Enteropathy, Farmer nutrition school, Gender
Location: Ghana

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

U.S. Congressional Delegation Visits SPRING/Senegal

Congressional staffers learn how partnerships are strengthening agriculture and improving nutrition.

Keywords: Community media, Gender, Handwashing, Infant and young child feeding, Nutrition-sensitive, Thousand days, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: Senegal

US Ambassador Joins SPRING to Improve Nutrition in Kyrgyz Republic

US Ambassador Sheila Gwaltney visited SPRING/Kyrgyzstan program working to improve nutrition outcomes among women and children in Naryn Oblast.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Communication, Essential nutrition actions, Gender, Infant and young child feeding, Malnutrition, Social and behavior change communication, Nutrition-specific, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Maternal nutrition
Location: Kyrgyz Republic

SPRING Celebrates International Women’s Day 2016

Happy #IWD2016! Learn how SPRING is empowering women through better nutrition.

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Adolescents, Anemia, Community media, Communication, Gender, Malnutrition, Mass media

In the Kyrgyz Republic, Nutrition Is a Family Affair

SPRING conducts gender-sensitive nutrition events that encourage the participation of all family members in improved nutrition.

Keywords: Gender
Location: Kyrgyz Republic

Galleries

SPRING/Senegal Celebrates End of 18 Months of Implementation with Close-out Ceremonies in Kaolack and Dakar

SPRING/Senegal organized two close-out ceremonies to mark the end of 18 months of implementation – one in Kaolack and one in Dakar. Both ceremonies showcased the project’s work in nutrition...

Keywords: Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrition-sensitive, Social and behavior change communication, Gender, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: Senegal

Members of one of SPRING’s partner women’s groups pose for a photo outside of their community garden.

Community Partners' Projects Visit in Senegal

A USAID and SPRING team observed the results of SPRING’s partnership approach at the community level.

Keywords: Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Social and behavior change communication, Mass media, Dietary diversity, Gender
Location: Senegal

SPRING/Senegal SBCC Advisor Albert Boubane, standing in the bed of a truck, distributes water to participants before the hike.

SPRING/Senegal Organizes Hike to Promote Nutrition, Agriculture, Gender and Hygiene Messages

On August 9, 2017, SPRING/Senegal and partner radio station Niombato FM organized a promotional hike in Toubacouta Village.

Keywords: Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Agriculture, Gender
Location: Senegal

Participants and trainers pose for a group photo.

SPRING/Senegal Cereal Transformation Unit Training

From May 4-8, 2017, SPRING/Senegal trained six partner networks in Senegal on the technical and business elements of operating machinery that can be used to lower the burden of post-harvest...

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Agriculture, Dietary diversity, Nutrition-sensitive, Gender, Training
Location: Senegal

Actors animatedly play their roles in the sketch by raising their arms and with pained expressions on their faces.

SPRING/Senegal at World Malaria Day Event

On World Malaria Day 2017, SPRING/Senegal organized a social mobilization event in Dinguiraye Commune with our partner, APROFES, and Senegal’s Unit for the Fight Against Malnutrition (CLM...

Keywords: Community mobilization, Gender, Handwashing, Women's empowerment
Location: Senegal

Groundnut shellers in the country office ready to be delivered to the districts.

Nut Shellers in Northern Ghana

SPRING is distributing a limited number of nut shellers to communities in Northern Ghana as a demonstration of their ability to save labor for female groundnut and shea nut farmers.

Keywords: Aflatoxin, Agriculture, Dietary diversity, Enteropathy, Farmer nutrition school, Gender
Location: Ghana

SPRING/Senegal Raises Awareness of Gender Issues

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: Gender, Social and behavior change communication, Sustainability, Training, Women's empowerment
Location: Senegal

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

Ambassador Gwaltney plays with a SPRING volunteer’s baby boy (held by SPRING Chief of Party Michael Foley) after discussing the impact good nutrition information will make on their community and the next generation.

US Ambassador Joins SPRING to Improve Nutrition in Kyrgyz Republic

US Ambassador Sheila Gwaltney visited SPRING/Kyrgyzstan program working to improve nutrition outcomes among women and children in Naryn Oblast.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Communication, Essential nutrition actions, Gender, Infant and young child feeding, Malnutrition, Maternal nutrition, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrition-specific, Social and behavior change communication
Location: Kyrgyz Republic

SPRING Staff Pledge for Gender Parity on International Women's Day 2016

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...

Keywords: Gender, Women's empowerment
Location: Ghana, Senegal, Uganda

Briefs

Couples as Champions for Gender Equality

Transforming sociocultural beliefs around gender roles is critical to better nutrition outcomes. As part of SPRING’s social and behavior change communication (SBCC) strategy, we piloted the...

Location: Senegal

Videos

A father grins at his infant. He holds the baby in his lap and supports its neck.

Why Couples Are Championing Gender Equity in Senegal

SPRING’s Gender Champion Approach aims to increase men and women’s partnership within the household in order to impact nutrition outcomes.

Keywords: Gender, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition
Location: Senegal

Reports

The Father Factor

This report explains how the community video approach can be used to strengthen spousal communication and improve male involvement in MIYCN behaviors.

Keywords: Social and behavior change communication, Gender, Community media
Location: Niger

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Results from SPRING/Bangladesh’s Farmer Nutrition Schools

The goal of the research was to measure empowerment among FNS beneficiaries and to compare the average WEAI score among different cohorts of the FNS program and, using the BIHS data, to...

Keywords: Farmer nutrition school, Women's empowerment, Gender
Location: Bangladesh

Agriculture and Nutrition in Mali through a Gender Lens

This study reviewed literature on gender barriers as they relate to household decision making, access to land and seeds for gardening, household food distribution, access to health...

Keywords: Gender, Agriculture, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition
Location: Mali

Activities

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

“Men Are in Front at Eating Time, but Not When It Comes to Rearing the Chicken”: Unpacking the Gendered Benefits and Costs of Livestock Ownership in Kenya

Livestock development programs seek to amplify resilience in low-income communities but often fail to consider the costs to intended beneficiaries or the effect of prevailing gender norms...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Women's empowerment
Location: Kenya

Women in Agriculture: Four Myths

This article views food security policy’s inclusion of women in agriculture with a critical lens, highlighting myths on women, agriculture, and the environment that continue to pervade...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

Converging for Nutrition - ENUFF Technical Brief

SNV’s ENUFF project in Lao PDR integrates activities in gender, agriculture, nutrition, and WASH to improve the nutritional status of families in the country's northern region. The project'...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Food systems, Multi-sector
Location: Laos

Women, Village Chickens, and Animal Source Food Consumption in Timor-Leste

In this blog, Johanna Wong, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney, shares research findings from Timor-Leste about the promoters and inhibitors of animal source food consumption in...

Keywords: Agriculture, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Gender
Location: East Timor

Assessing How Agricultural Technologies Can Change Gender Dynamics and Food Security

This 5-part downloadable toolkit introduces a framework that considers the social context of the agricultural technologies and the specific challenges that women and men farmers face in...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

Changing Gender Roles in Agriculture?: Evidence from 20 Years of Data in Ghana

At a time when donors and governments are increasing efforts to mainstream gender in agriculture, it is critical to revisit long-standing wisdom about gender inequalities in agriculture to...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender
Location: Ghana

ATONU’s Nutrition-Sensitive Intervention (NSI) Selection Tool

The recently launched ATONU tool can help development practitioners identify and select nutrition sensitive agriculture interventions for their projects. Beginning with the identification...

Keywords: Agriculture, Nutrition-sensitive, Gender

Competency Framework for Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

IGENENAES presents a framework to promote the skills, attitudes, and behaviors (SABs) needed at the individual level to deliver gender- and nutrition-informed agricultural extension...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

What Role Can Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Play in Realizing Gender Equality and Improved Nutrition?

FAO’s FSN forum is hosting an online discussion to reflect on the role that agricultural extension and advisory services (AEAS) can play in contributing to reducing gender inequalities and...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

Women's Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN)

Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming And Networking (WEMAN) is an initiative which focuses on gender mainstreaming in rural development with the objective of contributing to food and income...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Women's empowerment

Aflatoxins and Extension in Zambia Webinar

Agricultural extension services play an important role in disseminating production information to small farmers, especially on issues like aflatoxins. But in extension services in Zambia,...

Keywords: Aflatoxin, Gender
Location: Zambia

How Much of the Labor in African Agriculture is Provided by Women?

This article aims to revisit the commonly held belief that women in Sub-Saharan Africa are responsible for 60–80% of the agricultural labor supplied, a figure that traces back to an...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

Training Report on Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services in Uganda (INGENAES)

Feed the Future highlights an INGENAES training on integrating gender within agricultural value chain and agro-enterprise initiatives held December 7-9, 2016 at Mukono Zonal Agricultural...

Keywords: Agriculture, Training, Gender

Conceptualizing the Contribution of Agricultural Extension Services to Nutrition

How can extension build on its "core competencies" in improving household food security to lay the foundation for better nutrition? This discussion paper explores the conceptual linkages...

Keywords: Food security, Agriculture, Gender, Nutrition-sensitive, Food systems

Yes, G-CAN! Endorsing Food Security With Gender-Responsive and Climate-Resilient Agriculture

This webinar explored how the Feed the Future Gender-Sensitive Climate-Smart Agriculture for Nutrition (G-CAN) initiative aims to support USAID on the new Global Food Security Strategy....

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

Breaking Barriers: Integrating Gender and Nutrition Into Extension Services

Extension professionals are fully committed to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening communities, but there is still a great need across the board to better integrate gender and...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender

INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning Exchange

This upcoming symposium in Zambia will share past experiences, human-centered design, and innovations in gender and nutrition issues in extension. It aims to provide nutrition specialists,...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender
Location: Zambia

How Do Agricultural Technologies Impact Gender Roles and Nutrition?

Designing and disseminating technologies through Agricultural Extension Services in a gender-responsive and nutrition-sensitive way can help extend the benefits of technologies like...

Keywords: Agriculture, Nutrition-sensitive, Gender

The WEAI Intervention Guide and the Gender Integration Framework After Event Resources

The Intervention Guide for the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a resource to help USAID missions and implementers design interventions for the domains of empowerment...

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Social and behavior change communication, Gender, Agriculture

Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: A Guide to Measurement

The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator acts as a tool for assessment, target-setting, and advocacy. MDD-W is a dichotomous indicator of whether or not women 15-49 years...

Keywords: Gender, Dietary diversity, Micronutrient, Agriculture

Synthesis of Evaluations Related to the Feed the Future Learning Agenda

Nearly 200 performance and impact evaluations of Feed the Future programs were reviewed using the lens of the Feed the Future Learning Agenda to produce this report. Six themes and...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Resiliency

Integrating Gender into Social and Behavior Change Communication

Health Communication Capacity Collaborative’s SBCC Implementation Kit (I-Kit), includes a step by step approach to integrate gender into an existing SBCC strategy or marketing kit. It is...

Keywords: Gender, Social and behavior change communication, Agriculture

Introductory Workshop on Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services: Facilitator’s Guide, Version 2

This facilitator’s guide has been prepared for public, private, and NGO extension providers to strengthen their capacity to address gender in a transformative manner and to integrate...

Keywords: Nutrition-sensitive, Gender, Agriculture

The Fight for Equality in Farming: International Women’s Day 2016 #IWD2016

To address the continuing injustices faced by women across the globe, this year’s theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) was “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.” This...

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Gender, Agriculture

Micronutrient Forum Global Conference 2016: Positioning Women’s Nutrition at the Centre of Sustainable Development

Professionals, organizations, and stakeholders will come together for the Micronutrient Forum Global Conference on October 24-28, 2016, in Cancun, Mexico. The focus for this year’s forum...

Keywords: Fortification, Adolescents, Gender, Micronutrient

Bringing Agriculture and Nutrition Together Using a Gender Lens

Addressing unequal power relations between men and women is part of the solution to achieving improved nutrition and agricultural outcomes. This report assesses the women’s empowerment...

Keywords: Gender, Women's empowerment

Climate Change through a Gendered Lens: Examining Livestock Holder Food Security

Men and women livestock holders are differentially vulnerable to climate change. This article proposes a gendered conceptual framework for understanding the impact of climate change on food...

Keywords: Gender, Food security

Moving Forward on Choosing a Standard Operational Indicator of Women’s Dietary Diversity

Monotonous diets fail to provide sufficient micronutrients. Consequently, dietary diversity is crucial for vulnerable groups, in particular women of reproductive age. This report reviews...

Keywords: Micronutrient, Dietary diversity, Gender

The State of Food and Agriculture 2015

Key messages in the 2015 State of Food Security report revolve around social protection, gender-sensitive programs, and national commitment. The report explores what social protection can...

Keywords: Food security, Gender

Women and Health: the Key for Sustainable Development

This paper analyzes the concepts, empirical evidence, analytical frameworks, and recommendations of the multifaceted pathways through which gender and health interact. With an emphasis on...

Keywords: Gender, Women's empowerment

Help WEAI Help You: New Opportunities to Utilize the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

The Women’s Empowerment Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a measure meant to capture women’s inclusion in the agricultural sector. This webinar discussed the creation of the WEAI and the...

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Gender

Don’t Risk your Health for Nutrition!: Why Gender Matters for Food Safety

This blog from the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange highlights the impacts gender participation have on nutrition-related decision making, food safety and risk mitigation among value chains...

Keywords: Gender

Women’s Time in Agriculture and Nutrition

This interview features a 4 minute interview with Dr. Hazel Malapit, A4NH’s Gender Research Coordinator, discussing why women’s time is an important pathway between agriculture and...

Keywords: Gender

Measuring and Monitoring Gender Behavior Change in Agriculture Programs

This event featured the CARE Pathways Program’s gender integration framework, and focused on how agriculture programs can apply the framework within their own projects. Event resources...

Keywords: Gender, Social and behavior change communication

Ag2Nut Community Call: Measuring and Monitoring Gender Behavior Change

The April Ag2Nut community call featured two new toolkits from CARE and Land O'Lakes for gender in agriculture, food security, and nutrition. The event explored new thinking in this...

Keywords: Gender, Food security, Social and behavior change communication

Women’s Agricultural Work and Nutrition in Pakistan: Findings from Qualitative Research

Does women’s work in agriculture help or hinder nutrition in Pakistan? The paper examines various linkages between agricultural labor and childcare using insights gained from qualitative...

Keywords: Gender, Workforce

The Future of Family Farming: Providing Resources for Women and Young Farmers

In support of the International Year of Family Farming, FAO’s Global Forum has teamed up with the Food Tank site (www.foodtank.com) to promote debate on policies and technology that support...

Keywords: Gender, Agriculture

Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition: What does the Evidence Tell Us?

Transform Nutrition, a consortium of development partners funded by the UK and led by IFPRI, recently released a 2-page brief on current efforts to link gender and nutrition. In particular...

Keywords: Gender, Women's empowerment, Agriculture

Engaging Men and Boys in Food and Nutrition Security: The Hidden Half of Gender Equality Programming

SPRING, TOPS, and USAID hosted the final segment in a three-part webinar series, Women's Empowerment and Men's Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition....

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Gender, Agriculture

Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project Outreach Event

Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) hosted an outreach event in Washington, D.C. to present findings from projects focusing on gender and agriculture. Marie Ruel and Keith Weibe...

Keywords: Gender, Agriculture

New: Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange

The nexus of gender, agriculture, and nutrition is square in the communities’ spotlight these days, and the CGIAR A4NH program is offering a new blog to keep the discussion going. The site...

Keywords: Gender, Agriculture

The Role of Gender in Agricultural Development

When did the first academic questions around gender and agriculture arise? For the CGIAR it was at least 1986, when a group of researchers at the annual consortium meeting came together...

Keywords: Gender, Agriculture

Livestock Production, Animal Source Food Intake, and Young Child Growth: The Role of Gender for Ensuring Nutrition Impacts

Along with lack of nutrition knowledge, gender dimensions may affect the pathways leading from livestock ownership to child animal source food intake and ultimately to young child growth....

Keywords: Gender, Food systems
Location: Kenya

Empowering Women in Agriculture: Strengthening Production and Dietary Diversity to Improve Nutrition

Access event resources from the second SPRING, TOPS, and USAID webinar in a three-part series, Women's Empowerment and Men's Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and...

Keywords: Women's empowerment, Gender, Agriculture
Location: Nepal

Empowering Women in Agriculture: Maximizing Nutrition Gain

SPRING, TOPS, and USAID kicked off the first event in its webinar series, Women’s Empowerment and Men’s Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition, with a...

Keywords: Gender, Women's empowerment, Agriculture

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