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BANGLADESH Country Achievements FOOD CARE POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE SOCIOCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE AND MARKETS INPUTS AND SERVICES INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION HEALTH Project Year 5, October 2015 to March 2016 SPRING IS WORKING TO STRENGTHEN THE NUTRITION SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH NUTRITION Conducted 7,568 sessions across 1,280 Farmer Nutrition Schools (FNS), reach- ing 25,010 women with household agri- culture, hygiene, nu- trition, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) training Conducted 99,877 household visits to FNS graduates to reinforce the desired essential nutrition actions (ENA) and essential hygiene actions (EHA) that FNS sessions promote Conducted 4,047 supportive supervision and monitoring visits to health and family planning facilities, agriculture extension agents, and government community groups/community support groups Launched a study report that found that the presence of tippy taps in and around the household, as well as the promotion of hand- washing, has a signifi- cant positive impact on handwashing practices REACHING PEOPLE 1,663,228 people reached 8 institutions supported* 868 agricultural extension workers and 1,379 health facilities supported* * through the first half of FY 2016 only SPRING is reaching women and children under two in Bangladesh through the training of health workers and agriculture extension officers, and through farmer nutrition schools. EXERTING INFLUENCE: HIGHLIGHTS February Presented SPRING’s work with tippy taps in Bangladesh at the SBCC Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia USAID Director of the Office of Popu- lation, Health, Education and Nutrition at USAID visited SPRING’s work in Abhaynagar, Khulna February March Participated in the second annual Safollo Gatha meeting as part of the government’s effort to catalogue and recognize best prac- tices in health, population, and nutrition This graphic is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-11-00031 (SPRING), managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with partners Helen Keller International, the Manoff Group, Save the Children, and the International Food Policy Research Institute. The contents are the responsibility of JSI, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. www.spring-nutrition.org

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Page 1: BANGLADESH Country Achievements · effort to catalogue and recognize best prac-tices in health, population, and nutrition . This graphic is made possible by the generous support of

BANGLADESH Country Achievements

FOOD

CARE

POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE

SOCIOCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

HOUSEHOLD RESOURCES

FINANCING

INFRASTRUCTURE AND MARKETS

INPUTS AND SERVICES

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

HEALTH

Project Year 5, October 2015 to March 2016

SPRING IS WORKING TO STRENGTHEN THE NUTRITION SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH

NUTRITION

Conducted 7,568 sessions across 1,280 Farmer Nutrition Schools (FNS), reach-ing 25,010 women with household agri-culture, hygiene, nu-trition, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) training

Conducted 99,877 household visits to FNS graduates to reinforce the desired essential nutrition actions (ENA) and essential hygiene actions (EHA) that FNS sessions promote

Conducted 4,047 supportive supervision and monitoring visits to health and family planning facilities, agriculture extension agents, and government community groups/community support groups

Launched a study report that found that the presence of tippy taps in and around the household, as well as the promotion of hand-washing, has a signifi-cant positive impact on handwashing practices

REACHING PEOPLE

1,663,228 people reached

8 institutions supported*

868 agricultural extension workers and 1,379 health facilities supported*

*through the first half of FY 2016 only

SPRING is reaching women and children under two in Bangladesh through the training of health workers and agriculture extension officers, and through farmer nutrition schools.

EXERTING INFLUENCE: HIGHLIGHTS

FebruaryPresented SPRING’s work with tippy taps in Bangladesh at the SBCC Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

USAID Director of the Office of Popu-lation, Health, Education and Nutrition

at USAID visited SPRING’s work in Abhaynagar, Khulna

February

MarchParticipated in the second annual Safollo Gatha meeting as part of the government’s effort to catalogue and recognize best prac-tices in health, population, and nutrition

This graphic is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-11-00031 (SPRING), managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with partners Helen Keller International, the Manoff Group, Save the Children, and the International Food Policy Research Institute. The contents are the responsibility of JSI, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

www.spring-nutrition.org