Social and behavior change communication

Reports

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From 2014 to 2018, the SPRING project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), worked in Jalalabad and Naryn oblasts, as well as Bishkek, the capital city of the...

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The SPRING project began working in Sierra Leone in January 2016 through funding from the USAID Bureau for Food Security (BFS).

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This is the final country report for SPRING's two-year program in Senegal.

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During our three years of implementation, SPRING/Ghana carried out a successful multi-sectoral program to improve nutrition within the 15 districts of the Upper East and Northern regions...

News

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On June 22, 2018, the USAID-funded SPRING project in the Kyrgyz Republic hosted an event in Bishkek to share important lessons and accomplishments of the project from 2014 to 2018. 

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SPRING staff traveled to Nusa Dua, Indonesia to present on SPRING’s work in nutrition social and behavior change and to build skills among practitioners at the 2018 International Social and...

Briefs

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 This brief presents some of our key learning about social and behavior change (SBC) for nutrition between 2012 and 2017.

Training Materials

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The Maternal, Infant and Young Child Community Nutrition Training Package provides basic nutrition training for Community Service Providers (CSP) and Community Resource Persons (CRP) to...

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These materials were created specifically for the SPRING nutrition-sensitive agriculture training in Odisha, India based upon the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training package.

Job Aids and Tools

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SPRING’s curated collection of useful resources to design, implement, and monitor nutrition behavior change programs

Posters

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In Sierra Leone, SPRING tested integrated social and behavior change (SBC) approaches that can improve nutrition-related household practices and influence agriculture value chains. The goal...

Videos

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

Thumbnail image taken from the cooking video.

This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

Thumbnail image taken from the cooking video.

This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

Thumbnail image taken from the cooking video.

This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

Thumbnail image taken from the cooking video.

This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

Thumbnail image taken from the cooking video.

This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

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This series of 15 videos, starring Chef Daniyar Derkembaev, includes nutritious recipes for young children (6 – 24 months) as well as some that are great for the whole family.

Success Stories

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Since 2015, volunteer coordinator Firuza Fazilova has worked with the USAID global nutrition project, SPRING, to teach the importance of balanced diets for the future of the Kyrgyz Republic...

Events

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SPRING is proud to be a conference sponsor for the 2018 SBC Summit in Bali, Indonesia from April 16-20, 2018. 

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Resource Review Summaries

The 2018 SBCC Summit highlights the essential role SBCC plays in catalyzing change and making progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. This year, the conference will be hosted in...

This guide reports on the learning that has emerged from the Transform Nutrition consortium's research examining the potential of the social protection and agriculture sectors in Bangladesh...

This technical brief provides an overview of community SBCC and triggering on positive nutrition and hygiene behaviours. It summarises some key insights and findings from Sustainable...

This webinar held on September 25, 2017, provided an overview of key considerations when designing, implementing, and evaluating integrated social and behavior change communication (SBCC)...

This ACDI/VOCA webinar focused on the influence of social and behavior change research in the market systems context, utilizing case studies to demonstrate its significance. One case study...

CORE Group will host the Spring 2017 Global Health Practitioner Conference, Integrated Approaches: The Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Key to Community Health, on April 20 – 21, 2017 in...

Secure Nutrition and the World Bank Group hosted author and IFPRI Senior Researcher Dr. Harold Alderman to outline the logic for prioritizing nutrition-sensitive programs in the current...

Holly McKee, of Bioanalyt, tells of her experience supporting data collection to evaluate Helen Keller International’s Enhanced Homestead Food Production (EHFP) program in Indonesia. The...

This study examines the feasibility of delivering maternal, infant, and young child nutrition behavior change communication through an innovative agricultural extension program serving...

Positive monitoring reports and feedback from Ghana indicate that the School Meals Planner Package tool can be adapted for other countries to meet context-specific needs. The package...

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...

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...

World Bank’s SecureNutrition Platform convened a panel of five World Bank social protection projects in a seminar to discuss how they are incorporating social behavior change communication...

This SPRING webinar explored biofortification, with a focus on implementation and incorporating it into development projects. HarvestPlus experts explained their implementation process,...

The ENGINE Project has launched a YouTube channel, with videos detailing its programs and explaining some of the outcomes of their nutrition-specific interventions, homestead gardening...

A program involving agriculture, nutrition, and health behavior change communication (BCC) is shown to improve child health and nutrition outcomes. This study reveals that an integrated...

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...

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...

The document serves as a simple guide on how the overall ENA framework is conceived to incorporate nutrition into all available contact opportunities in the health sector and beyond, how to...