We document and disseminate various results, trainings, and resources from our research, programs, and projects.
The Identifying and Vaccinating Uninsured Adults guide assists state and local immunization programs and their partners in identifying and vaccinating uninsured and underinsured adults. This guide includes strategies, practices, and resources from 13 selected state immunization programs and their partners that have implemented activities or programs to improve access to vaccines for vulnerable adult populations….
Reducing undernutrition requires a commitment from multiple sectors, yet documentation on how to collaborate across sectors to reach global goals is scant. Through a three-country assessment and literature review in Guatemala, Bangladesh, and Rwanda, SPRING investigated approaches to multisectoral collaboration for nutrition. This paper highlights lessons that USAID and its implementing partners learned, and provides…
Women’s empowerment and gender equity are globally recognized as essential for sustainable development. Not only is women’s empowerment crucial for women’s human rights, but a growing evidence base suggests that empowering women improves nutrition outcomes for both mothers and their children. One review estimates that improvements in women’s status and education account for more than…
Strong supply chains save lives. Strong supply chains are critical to getting health products to clients, wherever and whenever they need them. Supply chain managers have overall responsibility to ensure the continuous supply of health commodities. The Supply Chain Manager’s Handbook is the starting point for anyone interested in learning about and understanding the key…
Since 2015, JSI has partnered with the Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) to support strengthening the evidence base for the impact of DV programs in order to sustain DV services and interventions long-term. As part of this work, JSI conducted a literature review to determine the range of intermediate health and patient-centered outcomes that…
The Domestic Violence Health Care Partnerships (DVHCP) Sustainability Primer is a tool that will provide DVHCP partners guidance on three fundamental aspects of sustainability: Developing a value proposition Designing a funding approach Identifying funding sources. There is no one-size-fits-all approach or single, adequate source of funding. These materials and concepts are intended to inform a…
The negative effects of malnutrition on productivity, cognitive ability, and health status are not always obvious. Furthermore, because of the multi-sectoral determinants of nutrition, improving nutritional status is often viewed as “everyone’s problem but no one’s responsibility” (IDS 2008; Lapping et al. 2012). To succeed in sustainably scaling up nutrition programs we must pay attention…
Undernutrition affects all income levels and geographic zones of Nigeria. In the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey in Nigeria, 37 percent of children under 5 years old were stunted, 29 percent were underweight, and 18 percent were wasted (National Population Commission and ICF International 2014). Stunting, or low height for age, is a result of…
SSPRING/Bangladesh implements a multichannel integrated approach to tackling malnutrition along the nation’s coastal belt using both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions. With the Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions (ENA/EHA) as the technical foundation of its work, SPRING/Bangladesh has developed a variety of interventions, grounded in existing evidence-based approaches, to tackle malnutrition, with a particular…
Previous studies that explored interventions aimed at improving maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) behaviors primarily focused on the mothers of young children. Interest is growing in understanding how nutrition practices can be supported by involving other household members who provide social support and influence these practices, specifically mothers-in-law and husbands. In Niger, where…
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