Infant and Young Child Feeding Update
Summary: This update provides data on key indicators related to optimal feeding practices for children younger than five. The update includes a summary of...
USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Topics: Technical publications + Region: Global
Learning from large-scale community-based programmes to improve breastfeeding practices
Summary: Community-based breastfeeding promotion and support is one of the key components of a comprehensive program to improve breastfeeding practices, as...
Nutrition Essentials: A Guide for Health Managers
Summary: This is a reference manual for major nutrition interventions to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. The document provides background...
Nutrition Toolkit
Summary: This toolkit includes nine booklets on different nutrition topics, including nutrition project design, basic facts (nuts and bolts in nutrition),...
ProPAN: Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding
Summary: ProPAN is a manual and software aimed at ministries of health, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations interested in improving...
Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large-Scale Action
Summary: This policy document describes the justification for increasing investments in nutrition, the magnitude of malnutrition, the programs that work, and...
Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?
Summary: Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost? argues that an additional US$10.3 billion a year is required from public resources to mount a successful...
The Case for Preventing Malnutrition Through Improved Infant Feeding and Management of Childhood Illness
Summary: This poster, presented by the IYCN Project at the 10th Commonwealth Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Congress on Diarrhoea...
Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition
Summary: Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition reports that undernutrition in mothers and children is a factor in a third of all deaths of children...
Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for Improved Maternal Nutrition
This review summarizes qualitative research findings on maternal nutrition from nine IYCN country programs. The document describes sociocultural barriers to...