Mass media
Briefs
In this brief, we hope to help other programs embrace flexibility by discussing our experience adapting activities mid-way through a project.
Galleries
A USAID and SPRING team observed the results of SPRING’s partnership approach at the community level.
On January 26, 2017, members of a local community video production team shot a short video about the benefits of orange-fleshed sweet potato.
Location: Senegal
In partnership with the Ministry of Health’s Republican Center for Health Promotion, SPRING trained 32 members of national media on how to better promote nutrition during a two-day Media...
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Health Promotion Unit of Tash Kumyr town held an event on the importance of breastfeeding.
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
World Breastfeeding Week 2016 was celebrated in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria with a press briefing event that brought together representatives from different media outfits,...
SPRING/ Kyrgyz Republic Holds Community Event to Raise Breastfeeding Awareness in Kara Kul.
Sisimpur has collaborated with SPRING/Bangladesh to prepare a live action segment on tippy taps with adolescent children as protagonists to promote hand washing.
Location: Bangladesh
News
SPRING/Guinea trained staff from community radio stations on developing effective interactive radio programming supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices.
SPRING/Guinea and FRI conducted an assessment to develop an interactive rural radio strategy that the SMARTE project can use to encourage nutrition-sensitive and specific practices.
Location: Guinea
In partnership with the Ministry of Health’s Republican Center for Health Promotion, SPRING trained media representatives on how to better promote nutrition.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Health Promotion Unit of Tash Kumyr town held an event on the importance of breastfeeding.
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
SPRING collaborated with the FCT Primary Health Care Development Board to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week with a press briefing.
SPRING interviewed 64 Micronutrient Powder users and distributors to identify successes understand barriers they face in using and distributing MNP.
Happy #IWD2016! Learn how SPRING is empowering women through better nutrition.
SPRING/Bangladesh makes media appearances on local radio and television shows to talk about handwashing.
Activities
SPRING/Senegal partners with six local radio stations to regularly produce and air 60-second spots on high-impact nutrition and hygiene practices.
Case Studies
In Nepal, four in 10 children are stunted; one in three women and five in 10 children are anemic, and one in 10 children is wasted. Suaahara (“Good Nutrition”) is implementing a...
Location: Nepal
Development Media International (DMI) implemented a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Burkina Faso to measure the impact of mass media on child mortality.
Location: Burkina Faso
The intervention uses mass media, including television commercials, and community mobilization through social activities centered on women’s groups.
Location: Indonesia
Reports
In 2013, the USAID Global Health Bureau asked SPRING to collaborate with and provide nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related social and behavior change communication (...