Breastfeeding Advocacy Toolkit

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

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…, Organization, UNICEF, Publication date, 2018, Languages, English, French Community based infant and young child feeding

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

The Department of Child and Adolescent Health has developed guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth weight infants in low- and middle-income countries. These guidelines include recommendations on what to feed low-birth weight infants, when to start feeding, how to feed, how often and how much to feed. The guidelines were developed using the…, Organization, WHO, Publication date, 2011, Language, English     Guidelines on optimal feeding of low birth-weight infants in low- and middle-income countries

UNICEF has an exceptional history of advocating to protect and promote children’s and women’s rights. The Advocacy Toolkit stems from this, systematizing and coordinating both internal and external advocacy expertise, as well developing a few innovative approaches. The Toolkit provides a set of practical tools to help UNICEF staff and partners in…, Organization, UNICEF, Publication date, 2010, Languages, English UNICEF Advocacy Toolkit

This document presents new and updated indicators to assess infant and young child feeding practices at household level. It is a follow-up to the 1991 document 'Indicators for assessing breastfeeding practices'. New indicators for assessing feeding practices in children 6-23 months have been included. Indicators can be assessed through large-scale…, Organization, WHO, Publication date, 2008, Language, English Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices

This integrated infant feeding counseling course is designed to give health workers the competencies required to carry out effective counseling for breastfeeding, HIV and infant feeding and complementary feeding. It is designed for health workers in primary health care services and for lay counselors. This material includes four manuals (Director'…, Organization, WHO, Publication date, 2006, Language, English UNICEF/UN04264/Estey Additional resources Participant’s manual Trainer’s guide Course handouts

This assessment tool is designed to assist in gathering and presenting relevant information; in determining the strengths and weaknesses of national policies and programmes to protect, promote and support appropriate feeding practices; and in deciding where improvements may be needed to meet the aim and objectives of the Global Strategy. Ideally,…, Organization, WHO, Publication date, 2003, Language, English Infant and young child feeding

WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding whose aim is to improve - through optimal feeding - the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.  The Strategy is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a proven…, Organization, UNICEF | WHO, Publication date, 2003, Language, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Italian, German Global strategy for infant and young child feeding Additional languages Global strategy for infant and young child feeding (FRE) Global strategy for infant and young child feeding (ESP) Global strategy for infant and young child feeding (CHI) Global strategy for infant and young child…

This course is designed to provide health workers with the skills needed to support mothers and their children to breastfeed optimally. It includes guides for the course director and trainers, a participant’s manual, a booklet with overhead figures, a slide book and annexes.  , Organization, UNICEF | WHO, Publication date, 1993, Languages, English, French, Russian, Spanish Breastfeeding counseling: a training course Links to training materials, ENGLISH, Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Director's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Trainer's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Participant's Manual, FRENCH, Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Director's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Trainer's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Participant's Manual, RUSSIAN, Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Director's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Trainer's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Participant's Manual, SPANISH, Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Director's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Trainer's Guide Breastfeeding counseling: a training course - Participant's Manual

The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes is an international health policy framework for breastfeeding promotion adopted by the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981. The Code was developed as a global public health strategy and recommends restrictions on the marketing of breast milk…, Organization, WHO, Publication date, 1981, Language, English, French, Spanish, Russian International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes Additional languages International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes Geneva (1981) (FRE) International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes Geneva (1981) (SPA) International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes Geneva (1981) (RUS…