Breastfeeding Advocacy Toolkit
A knowledge and tool base for breastfeeding advocates
The Breastfeeding Advocacy Toolkit is a comprehensive collection of advocacy tools and resources aimed at improving policies and financing for the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding. The Toolkit is intended for breastfeeding advocates and other stakeholders seeking information and tools to support the Collective’s seven policy actions.
Impact of Breastfeeding on Maternal and Child Health
Impact of Breastfeeding on Maternal and Child Health
The Acta Pædiatrica Special Issue on Maternal and Child Health published in July 2015 includes review articles and meta-analyses focussing on the impact of breastfeeding to maternal and child health. Organization Acta Paediatrica Publication date 2015 Language English Impact of Breastfeeding on Maternal and Child Health List of articles…
Integrating Maternal, Infant, & Young Child Nutrition & Family Planning Services
Integrating Maternal, Infant, & Young Child Nutrition & Family Planning Services
This document captures the outcomes of a demonstration program integrating maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, and family planning (FP) services in six health facilities and adjacent community units in Bondo Sub-County, Siaya County, Western Kenya. The main objective of the initiative was to enhance and strengthen the linkages between…
Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition
Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition
The implementation plan aims to alleviate the double burden of malnutrition in children,starting from the earliest stages of development. Substantial benefits can be obtained by concentrating efforts from conception through the first two years of life, but at the same time a life-course approach needs to be considered so that good nutritional…
Global Nutrition Targets 2025
Global Nutrition Targets 2025
This policy brief introduces health system, community and policy level interventions needed to reach the target of 50% breastfeeding exclusivity for the first six months of life. Recognizing that accelerated global action is needed to address the pervasive and corrosive problem of the double burden of malnutrition, in 2012 the World Health…
Baby Friendly Spaces
Baby Friendly Spaces
The Baby Friendly Spaces is a model of intervention for a holistic program to support pregnant, lactating women and their children in emergency situations. The goal of the BFS is a holistic psychosocial program that aims at providing comprehensive support to children and their caregivers who are facing emergency situations. Infants and young…
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi)
World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi)
The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) is a unique tool, which tracks 10 indicators of policy and programmes that support women to be successful in breastfeeding.It helps a country to assess and report gaps as well as launch a ‘Call to Action’ for the Governments to bridge the gaps. WBTi encourages re-assessment every 3 to 5 years to…
Toolkit: Workplace Lactation Support
Toolkit: Workplace Lactation Support
This toolkit aims to provide information and guidance for institutions, companies, and other organizations interested in implementing policies and interventions to support lactation in the Workplace. It highlights the benefits of creating an enabling environment for breastfeeding women to express and store their breast milk while at work, and…
Advocacy How-To
Advocacy How-To
Results show that well-designed and implemented advocacy programs work. This guide draws from lessons learned and best practices from a multi-year regional nutrition advocacy initiative in Southeast Asia. The effort was focused on improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) policies specifically,but the results and lessons learned are relevant…
Essential Nutrition Actions
Essential Nutrition Actions
This document provides a compact of WHO guidance on nutrition interventions targeting the first 1000 days of life. Focusing on this package of essential nutrition actions (ENA), policy-makers could reduce infant and child mortality, improve physical and mental growth and development, and improve productivity. Part I presents the interventions…
Prelacteal feeding practices in Viet Nam: challenges and associated factors
Prelacteal feeding practices in Viet Nam: challenges and associated factors
This study examined the factors associated with prelacteal feeding among Vietnamese mothers. Organization BMC Public Health Publication date 2013 Language English Prelacteal feeding practices in Viet Nam: challenges and associated factors
Community based infant and young child feeding
Community based infant and young child feeding
Aimed for use in diverse country contexts, this package of tools guides local adaptation, design, planning and implementation of community based IYCF counselling and support services at scale. It also contains training tools to equip community workers (CWs), using an interactive and experiential adult learning approach, with relevant knowledge and…
Maternity Leave in Viet Nam: Advocacy Booklet
Maternity Leave in Viet Nam: Advocacy Booklet
An advocacy booklet on the need to extend maternity leave in Viet Nam. Organization Alive & Thrive, UNICEF, TLO, Ministry of Labour, Invalids & Social Affairs Viet Nam Publication date 2012 Language English Maternity Leave in Viet Nam: Advocacy Booklet