Integration of Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support into Routine Health Service Delivery (SPRING)
SPRING/Uganda, USAID and SPRING (Accessed January 16, 2018).
URL: www.spring-nutrition.org/sites/default/files/publications/briefs/spring_uganda_nacs_integration.pdf
Background
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with the goals of reducing undernutrition, preventing stunting, and reducing anemia in women and children. To achieve this, SPRING/Uganda provides technical support to the government of Uganda to deliver high-impact nutrition interventions primarily targeting women of childbearing age and children under two years of age.
The project directly supports the planning, implementing, monitoring and Evaluation of interventions related to nutrition, social and behavior change, and communication; industrial food fortification and anemia control at the national level; nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS); community mobilization; and social and behavior change communication (SBCC) for nutrition at the health facility—and community-level in South-West and East-Central Uganda.
Through these interventions, we developed the evidence base for multi-sectoral, multi-dimensional, nutrition-centered approaches that encourage the effective delivery of a core package of high-impact nutrition interventions.
This technical brief includes information on the strategic approaches we used, the achievements attained, lessons learned, and challenges encountered in program implementation in the Ntungamo district, South-Western Uganda.
