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Improved Infant and Young Child Feeding Takes Root in Nigeria

SPRING's partnerships with local NGOs to promote UNICEF's IYCF Package, paired with evidence of its effectiveness, spurs government uptake beyond the life of the project

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Community mobilization, Complementary feeding, Dietary diversity, Food systems, Maternal nutrition, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrition-specific, Scaling up nutrition, Sustainability, Thousand days
Location: Nigeria

Activities

Anemia working group members

Supporting National Level Nutrition Efforts

SPRING works at the national level on a range of nutrition issues, including anemia, deworming, and advocating for the inclusion of nutrition in pre-service training of healthcare providers...

Keywords: Communication, Health systems, Nutrition-specific, Scaling up nutrition, Training, Workforce
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
iycf support group member and baby

Contributing to National-Level Nutrition Coordination and Policy Efforts

SPRING and its partners catalyze national-level dialogue around nutrition and advocate for more funding and prioritization of the nutrition agenda.

Keywords: Communication, HIV/AIDS, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Multi-sector, Scaling up nutrition, Stunting, Thousand days
Location: Nigeria

Briefs

Factors Affecting Nutrition around Nepal

Factors Affecting Nutrition around Nepal: District and Subregional Snapshots

This set of quantitative snapshots acts as a complement to the qualitative and financial analysis being conducted as part of SPRING’s “Pathways to Better Nutrition” Case Study Series, with...

Location: Nepal
The Continuum of Scale-Up

Understanding Scale-up in the Context of the Ugandan Nutrition Action Plan

This brief is the first in a series of "interim" technical briefs, culminating in a final two-year study report in 2015. It focuses on findings from SPRING's baseline interviews with key...

Location: Uganda

Resource Review Summaries

The 2014 SUN Movement Global Gathering & ICN2 Side Event

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement has grown rapidly and now includes the countries that are home to half the world’s malnourished children. Over the years, the SUN Movement...

Keywords: Malnutrition, Scaling up nutrition

Scaling Up Nutrition Newsletter

Read about why the Philippines joined SUN, catch up on recent nutrition-related global events, and check out resources geared towards linking evidence with practice.

Keywords: Scaling up nutrition
Location: Philippines