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Engaging Stakeholders in Analyzing Findings and Developing Recommendations

In collaboration with UNICEF and the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health, SPRING carried out an evaluation of the Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) Counselling Package in...

Keywords: Community mobilization, Social and behavior change communication, Thousand days, Sustainability, Training, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Integration, Infant and young child feeding, Stunting
Location: Nigeria
Representatives from the Government of Nigeria, USAID, international NGOs, and civil society organizations gathered for a final meeting to celebrate the achievements and lessons learned through the SPRING project.

SPRING/Nigeria Celebrates Achievements in Close Out Event

SPRING/Nigeria applauds achievements and lessons learned during the project.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, HIV/AIDS, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Social and behavior change communication, Stunting
Location: Nigeria
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SPRING/Ghana Presents WASH 1,000 at the 39th Annual Water Engineering and Development Centre Conference

SPRING/Ghana’s WASH 1,000 approach was featured in a presentation and poster session at the annual WEDC conference.

Keywords: Clean household approach, Community mobilization, Enteropathy, Handwashing, Integration, Malnutrition, Multi-sector, Social and behavior change communication, Stunting, Thousand days, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: Ghana
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Coordinating Nutrition Action in Asia

Experts from across sectors meet in Bangkok to strengthen multi-sectoral coordination for nutrition

Keywords: Multi-sector, Agriculture, Anemia, Food security, Food systems, Health systems, Integration, Nutrition-sensitive, Nutrition-specific, Stunting, Sustainability, Social and behavior change communication, Scale-up
Location: Asia

Galleries

Chinyere Ekwueme, IYCF Desk Officer from the FCT Primary Heatlh Care Development Agency, recognizes SPRING's leadership in the harmonization of IYCF tools and strengthening the data collection process.

SPRING/Nigeria's Close Out Celebration

In November 2016, representatives from the Government of Nigeria, USAID, international NGOs, and civil society organizations gathered for a final meeting to celebrate the achievements and...

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Social and behavior change communication, Stunting
Location: Nigeria

Success Stories

Farmer nutrition school member Nilufa tends to her orange-fleshed sweet potato crop.

The Magic of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potatoes

In 2016, SPRING distributed OFSP vines to nearly 12,000 FNS members across Barisal and Khulna Divisions, making OFSP accessible to many poor women farmers for the first time.

Keywords: Farmer nutrition school, Thousand days, Stunting
Location: Bangladesh
Bibiana with her two granddaughters that she is raising.

"Great Mothers, Healthy Children” Campaign Helps a Community Improve Nutrition

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...

Keywords: Stunting, Malnutrition, Breastfeeding, Community media, Social and behavior change communication
Location: Uganda

Events

Improving the Diet and Eating Practices of Adolescent Girls

Improving the Diet and Eating Practices of Adolescent Girls

Webinar on the current nutritional status and practices of adolescent girls globally, and why investments in their health and well-being are crucial to improve nutrition worldwide.

Keywords: Maternal nutrition, Adolescents, Stunting, Malnutrition
Location: Online

Videos

King and his elders

“When a King has Good Counsellors, His Reign is Peaceful”

To draw leaders’ attention to the problem of stunting and their role in improving young children’s nutrition outcomes, SPRING/Ghana produced a 24-minute advocacy video.

Keywords: Stunting, Thousand days
Location: Ghana

Activities

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Increasing Access to Quality Nutrition Services Through Trainings

SPRING conducts trainings for health care providers to improve the quality and quantity of nutrition services and counselling throughout the Kyrgyz Republic.

Keywords: Anemia, Breastfeeding, Complementary feeding, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal nutrition, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Stunting, Supportive supervision, Training, Workforce
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
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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

Reports

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Baseline Nutrition Survey in the Kyrgyz Republic

To combat undernutrition in the Kyrgyz Republic, SPRING is implementing a comprehensive, multisectoral program to influence 11 nutrition-related behaviors that are linked to stunting and...

Keywords: Malnutrition, Multi-sector, Anemia, Stunting, Supplementation, Handwashing, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: Kyrgyz Republic
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Guinea Nutrition Assessment

As part of USAID’s Ebola recovery efforts, USAID/Guinea and USAID/Washington’s Bureau for Food Security (BFS) requested that the SPRING conduct a nutrition assessment to identify key...

Keywords: Anemia, Stunting, Malnutrition, Dietary diversity
Location: Guinea
Survey Report Results on Nutrition Indicators from Six Districts in Southwest and East Central Uganda

Survey Report Results on Nutrition Indicators from Six Districts in Southwest and East Central Uganda

SPRING/Uganda conducted a baseline survey on nutrition, HIV, and child health-related indicators using the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) methodology to guide program implementation...

Keywords: Anemia, Stunting, Malnutrition
Location: Uganda

Series

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Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change Communication for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia

This review, part of a broader effort by SPRING to support governments and other stakeholders in their delivery of high impact nutrition practices, provides a summary of peer-reviewed...

Keywords: Social and behavior change communication, Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, Complementary feeding, Dietary diversity

Posters

National and Sub-National Estimates of Child and Adult Nutritional Status Related to Later Life Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Disease

National and Sub-National Estimates of Child and Adult Nutritional Status Related to Later Life Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Disease

Country and regional profiles have been established to provide an overview of the relationship between early life nutrition status and later life nutrition-related non-communicable diseases...

Keywords: Stunting, Nutrition-related non-communicable disease
Location: Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia
Profile of the Public Health Nutrition Workforce in Five High-Burden Stunting Countries: Constraining and Enabling Factors

Profile of the Public Health Nutrition Workforce in Five High-Burden Stunting Countries: Constraining and Enabling Factors

SPRING’s Nutrition Workforce Mapping Tool is designed to be an efficient tool to map and summarize the various cadres of workers engaged in providing nutrition services at the country level...

Keywords: Workforce, Stunting
Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia

Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia

The findings of this review suggest the importance of promoting both broader social change and individual behavior change at all possible contact points.

Keywords: Anemia, Social and behavior change communication, Stunting

Resource Review Summaries

Cracking the Egg's Potential to Improve Child Growth and Development

This event presented findings from a recent report highlighting a randomized controlled trial targeting young children in the highlands of Ecuador, which provided eggs as part of a...

Keywords: Complementary feeding, Stunting, Agriculture
Location: Ecuador

Committee on Food Security 3rd Intersessional Nutrition Event: Achieving the 2025 Global Target for Stunting – Investing in Food Systems to Prevent Stunting

The Committee on Food Security (CFS) and the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) held an event on stunting to highlight the interconnectedness of the causes of childhood stunting and...

Keywords: Stunting

Liberia to Reduce Malnutrition Through Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

Liberia continues to face high levels of malnutrition, especially stunting among children under five. Stunting is partly due to the lack of information about growing and consuming...

Keywords: Agriculture, Stunting, Nutrition-sensitive
Location: Liberia

Evidence-Based Evolution of an Integrated Nutrition-Focused Agriculture Approach to Address the Underlying Determinants of Stunting

Young children remain the most vulnerable population to food insecurity--low birthweight and stunting continue to be among the most visible effects of malnutrition. Helen Keller...

Keywords: Stunting, Integration, Food security, Malnutrition

The Relationship between Agricultural Biodiversity, Dietary Diversity, Household Food Security, and Stunting of Children in Rural Kenya

Despite strides made to reduce global hunger, vulnerable people on a global scale are still hungry. The availability of cheap cereal foods has coincided with a reduction in dietary...

Keywords: Stunting, Agriculture, Dietary diversity, Food security
Location: Kenya

Food Security and Nutrition in the Context of the Global Nutrition Transition

This review begins by teasing out the differences between food insecurity and nutrition insecurity and moves on to examine research linking early life undernutrition and later risk of...

Keywords: Obesity/overweight, Stunting

Undernutrition in the Land of Rice: Why There Should be a Nutrition Goal in the Post-2015 Framework – The Case for Cambodia

Cambodia has enjoyed positive economic growth over the last 2 decades. And yet, 40 percent of children under five remain stunted today—a rift between prosperity and nutrition that is often...

Keywords: Stunting, Malnutrition
Location: Cambodia

USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014-2025

USAID’s Nutrition Strategy embodies a multi-sectoral approach to address both direct and underlying causes of malnutrition. With this strategy, USAID aims to decrease chronic malnutrition,...

Keywords: Multi-sector, Stunting, Malnutrition, Resiliency

Association between Economic Growth and Early Childhood Undernutrition: Evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys From 36 Low-Income And Middle-Income Countries

An analysis of 121 Demographic and Health Surveys found an increase in GDP per capita resulted in an insignificant decline in stunting. When researchers compared the changes in GDP to the...

Keywords: Stunting