Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: Revised, Updated and Expanded for Integrated Care
Summary: Part I of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good...
USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Topics: Technical publications + Region: Global + Source: External
Beyond survival: Integrated delivery care practices for long-term maternal and infant nutrition, health and development
Summary: This document discusses nutrition and health interventions in the immediate postpartum/natal period: delayed cord clamping to increase stores of iron...
Consolidated Report of Six-Country Review of Breastfeeding Programmes
Summary: This report documents the factors that influence breastfeeding support, promotion, and protection program outcomes; general lessons learned from the...
Designing by Dialogue: A Program Planners’ Guide to Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding
Summary: This manual provides tools for program managers to design, carry out, and analyze the results of formative, consultative research and to use those...
Dietary Diversity as a Measure of the Micronutrient Adequacy of Women’s Diets in Resource-Poor Areas: Results from Five Countries
Summary: To respond to the need for simple indicators to assess the quality of women’s diets, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project formed the...
Facts for Feeding
Summary: These seven short leaflets (available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese) provide general information on topics relevant to infant and young...
Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
Summary: This World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund strategy is the result of a comprehensive two-year participatory process. It is...
Guiding Principles for Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child
Summary: This document distills information from discussions at several technical meetings and technical documents on complementary feeding. It covers the...
Guiding principles for feeding infants and young children during emergencies
Summary: These guiding principles were prepared to help prevent increased morbidity and mortality among infants and young children affected by an emergency....
Guiding principles for feeding non-breastfed children 6-24 months of age
Summary: These guiding principles are based on consensus achieved during an informal meeting of experts held in Geneva in early 2004 and adapted from the...