Social and behavior change communication
Success Stories
SPRING provided training in infant and young child feeding to an existing network of local community activists to address a knowledge gap in Kyrgyzstan about the importance of exclusive...
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
Priscilla received a five-day training on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, intended to create a cadre of coaches at the local government area level. The community-based IYCF...
Location: Nigeria
As part of SPRING’s work in Nigeria, the project aims to reduce maternal and child undernutrition and improve HIV-free survival of infants and young children. In particular, SPRING/Nigeria...
Location: Nigeria
At 57 years old, Bibiana is a seasoned Village Health Team member (VHT). She has served her community for over 30 years. She is a reputable “village doctor” and the first person whose...
Location: Uganda
Events
Community Video for Nutrition Guide Highlights Experience Using an Innovative Community-led Video Approach from Digital Green and the SPRING Project
Activities
In Uganda, we worked with the Ugandan government, UN agencies, and USAID implementing partners to develop the National Advocacy and Communication Strategy in support of the Uganda Nutrition...
Galleries
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
SPRING/Uganda launches new campaign to improve parents’ nutrition practices toward their young children.
Location: Uganda
Series
This Community Video for Nutrition Guide is a joint product of SPRING and Digital Green (DG), an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) registered in the United States and India....
Videos
Chima runs into her neighbors on the way to the field, and her neighbor, Rakiya, explains that she is carrying a snack to the field for her baby to eat, even though her baby has already had...
Location: Niger, Sahel
While a woman is separating some food from the family meal for her young child, the community health worker (CHW) stops by.
Location: Niger, Sahel
Zaru visits her friend Aicha, and asks how Aicha is able to combine successfully exclusive breastfeeding with her work.
Location: Niger, Sahel
A woman delivers at a health center and breastfeeds her baby immediately after the delivery.
Location: Niger, Sahel
A woman prepares porridge for her baby, and asks her husband to feed the child while she goes out.
Location: Niger, Sahel
Sahoura asks her neighbor, Mariama, why her children are less healthy than Mariama’s, even though Sahoura practices the 1000 days behaviors.
Location: Niger, Sahel
This video lays out the five-point strategic agenda that emerged from the event, Designing the Future of Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication: How to Achieve Impact at Scale.
This video was produced in conjunction with the event, Designing the Future of Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication: How to Achieve Impact at Scale, which brought a broad...
Reports
SPRING conducted formative research in August 2014 to explore factors that affect household-level food purchase and production decisions in the Feed the Future zone of influence (ZOI) of...
Location: Guatemala
This report presents a strategic agenda for nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) to streamline priorities and investments by nutrition stakeholders in order to maximize...
This study provides insight into the factors that motivate households to take up production of nutrient-dense foods, to consume nutritious foods that they produce rather than sell, and to...
Location: Bangladesh
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 (...
Case Studies
Mumbai’s suburban railroads serve over 7 million daily commuters; with 2,000 train lines spread over 465,000 km. Besides serving as rail service infrastructure, the railroad tracks are...
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
Prospera, formerly known as Progresa or Oportunidades, is a national conditional cash transfer program. EsIAN is a pilot program within Prospera that aims to strengthen Prospera’s health...
Location: Mexico
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
Poor farmers in low and middle income countries are often risk-averse and reluctant to adopt new methods of farming, since crop failure could potentially lead to extreme hardship. Digital...
Between 2005 and 2010, Food for the Hungry (FH) applied the Care Group (CG) model in Sofala, Mozambique, with the aim of reaching more than 1 million pregnant women and women with children...
The intervention uses mass media, including television commercials, and community mobilization through social activities centered on women’s groups.
Location: Indonesia
A&T implements multi-component programs that make strategic use of data to plan, assess, and evaluate program impact to improve child feeding practices. The aim is to disseminate the...
Location: Ethiopia, Vietnam, Bangladesh
Briefs
This document is a working paper and part of a broader effort by SPRING to document and disseminate evidence of effective social and behavior change communication (SBCC) approaches and...