Funding

Economic evidence, investment frameworks, and resources to build the case for increased funding of breastfeeding programs

A woman breastfeeds her baby in the village of Trainou near the town of Bouaké in the center of Côte d'ivoire
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The Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool

This tool helps determine the future economic losses of low- and middle-income countries due to not breastfeeding according to recommendations.

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Advocacy guidance brief: Funding

This is the Collective's Advocacy Guidance Brief on increasing investment in programmes and policies that protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.

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An Investment Framework for Nutrition

This framework outlines the rationale, key action recommendations and research needs required to meet global nutrition targets.

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Unleashing Gains in Economic Productivity with Investments..

This report aims to provide a comprehensive estimate of costs and financing needs, laying out a potential financing framework.

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Nurturing the Health and Wealth of Nations

This document outlines the investment case for breastfeeding. The case to invest in breastfeeding has never been stronger, nor the need for action clearer.

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Incentivizing Nutrition

This report provide important guidance for cost-effective multi-sectoral efforts to scale up nutrition programming by incentivizing nutrition interventions.

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Budgeting for health

This chapter outlines the overall budget process for the public sector to provide timely inputs into the budgeting process.

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Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding..

This paper is part of the Lancet’s Series on breastfeeding

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