Stunting

News

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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...

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.

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...

Success Stories

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

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.

Bibiana with her two granddaughters that she is raising.

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...

Events

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.

Videos

King and his elders

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

iycf support group member and baby

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

Reports

Woman selling produce at market

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...

Woman stands in front of produce stand

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...

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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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...

Posters

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...

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

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

Resource Review Summaries

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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’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,...

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