Training

Activities

FNS participants receive a cooking demonstration about incorporating nutrient rich foods like squash and okra.

SPRING Delivers Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training to Farmers in Mopti

SPRING is reaching local farmers across the Mopti region with nutrition-sensitive agriculture education through Farmer Nutrition School trainings.

Keywords: Agriculture, Home gardens, Farmer nutrition school, Nutrition-sensitive, Training
Location: Mali
Woman, man, and baby stand outside a hut with a tippy tap

WASH 1,000 and Community Led Total Sanitation in Ghana

Much of SPRING/Ghana’s work surrounds the WASH 1,000 approach, which promotes four key behaviors related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities during the first 1,000 days, and...

Keywords: Community mobilization, Handwashing, Thousand days, Training, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: Ghana
A drawing of a counseling session

Building Local Partners’ Capacity to Implement Infant and Young Child Feeding Interventions

SPRING provides technical assistance to partners rolling out the Nigeria Community and Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Package for its use in uniform training and information...

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Community mobilization, Complementary feeding, Dietary diversity, Gender, Handwashing, Health systems, HIV/AIDS, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal nutrition, Nutrition-specific, Social and behavior change communication, Supportive supervision, Thousand days, Training, Workforce
Location: Nigeria

News

Group of people around a latrine

For World Toilet Day, SPRING Recognizes the Importance of Good Hygiene in Nutrition

Through its WASH activities, SPRING is building awareness of how nutrition and hygiene are connected

Keywords: Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Community mobilization, Handwashing, Training
Location: Ghana

Success Stories

Women attending a training session

Bringing Better Nutrition to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nigeria

SPRING/Nigeria collaborated with Nigeria’s Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MOWA), and the USAID-funded STEER project to roll out the community infant and young child...

Keywords: Infant and young child feeding, Training
Location: Nigeria
Seitova Raima holding her child

Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rural Kyrgyzstan: One Mother’s Journey to Success

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...

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Social and behavior change communication, Training
Location: Kyrgyz Republic

Reports

Four women and one man measuring a newborn

Haiti: Exploring Approaches to Building Capacity for Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support Services

Recognizing the need for training health care workers (HCW), the gap in knowledge related to effective training approaches, and the extensive resources that are invested in trainings, we...

Keywords: Training, Workforce, Nutrition assessment counseling and support, Infant and young child feeding
Location: Haiti

Training Materials

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Training Guide for Peace Corps Health Volunteers and Peace Corps Staff

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Training Guide for Peace Corps Health Volunteers and Peace Corps Staff

The training aims to empower Peace Corps Staff, Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and Community Volunteers (CVs) with knowledge and proven-effective messages on women’s nutrition, infant and...

Keywords: Essential nutrition actions, Training, Workforce, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Infant and young child feeding
Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Training Guide for Peace Corps Volunteers and Community Volunteers

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Training Guide for Peace Corps Volunteers and Community Volunteers

The training aims to empower Peace Corps Staff, Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and Community Volunteers (CVs) with knowledge and proven-effective messages on women’s nutrition, infant and...

Keywords: Essential nutrition actions, Workforce, Training, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Infant and young child feeding
Covers of the Community Health Worker's Training Guide and Handbook

Community Worker’s Training Guide and Handbook

These training materials include a set of reference tools to be used at the community level to promote and support improved nutrition practices.

Keywords: Workforce, Training, Essential nutrition actions
Location: Bangladesh

Events

Working in the field

Ag2Nut Community Call: Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Workshop

Ag2Nut Community Call for 9/16/2014, featuring speakers from IFAD, FAO, and IFPRI, discussing a nutritiono-sensitive training workshop held at IFAD headquarters in Rome, from July 15-18,...

Keywords: Training, Agriculture
Location: Online

Galleries

Participants during one-on-one counseling training

Training of Coaches on Community Infant and Young Child Feeding in Nigeria - Phase Two

In early and late May, 2014, SPRING conducted two five-day IYCF trainings.

Keywords: Training, Infant and young child feeding
Location: Nigeria
Participants carrying out a one-on-one counseling session at Family Health Clinic Area 2, Abuja

Training of Trainers on Community Infant and Young Child Feeding in Nigeria

In 2013, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria led a process to produce training materials on community infant and young child feeding. SPRING/Nigeria, which was involved in...

Keywords: Training, Infant and young child feeding
Location: Nigeria

Field Notes

Training to Integrate Agriculture and Nutrition in Bangladesh

Training to Integrate Agriculture and Nutrition in Bangladesh

This field note examines the SPRING/Bangladesh project and its training of project and government agents to deliver nutrition and hygiene messages alongside agricultural interventions at...

Keywords: Training, Integration, Agriculture
Location: Bangladesh

Pages

Resource Review Summaries

The New Extensionist Learning Kit

The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services has developed The New Extensionist: a global view of extension and advisory services (EAS) that reinvents and clearly articulates the role of...

Keywords: Agriculture, Training

Training Report on Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services in Uganda (INGENAES)

Feed the Future highlights an INGENAES training on integrating gender within agricultural value chain and agro-enterprise initiatives held December 7-9, 2016 at Mukono Zonal Agricultural...

Keywords: Agriculture, Training, Gender

The Ministry of Health of Peru Trains Mothers in Charge of Communal Kitchens to Combat Anaemia in Young Children

On January 30, 2016, Peru’s Ministry of Health came together with the Ministry of Education for an event on anemia prevention. The event targeted mothers who coordinate communal kitchens in...

Keywords: Anemia, Dietary diversity, Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Micronutrient, Supplementation, Training
Location: Peru

Nutrition Training Manual for Health and Agriculture Workers at Community Level in Ethiopia

Nutrition training of health and agriculture workers is critical to reduce child undernutrition. This manual, available in English and Amharic, equips health and agriculture workers at the...

Keywords: Training, Agriculture, Community mobilization, Farmer nutrition school
Location: Ethiopia

Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Programming

This online training course on pathways and program design developed by USAID Global Health and the Bureau for Food Security introduces professionals to nutrition-sensitive agricultural...

Keywords: Nutrition-sensitive, Training

Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: Connecting the Dots

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) hosted an intensive training at its Rome headquarters in July 2014, with the goal of ‘growing’ a pool of experts able to capably...

Keywords: Nutrition-sensitive, Training, Agriculture

Nutrition & Health Resources and Tools

Resources include a GFRAS/World Bank report on strengthening linkages of nutrition within extension and advisory services, ACDI/VOCA factsheets on nutrition integration, reports on...

Keywords: Integration, Training, Agriculture