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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Initiation of Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Time-to-Event Analysis
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Demographic and Health Survey data collected in 31 countries since 2015 show that women who deliver by cesarean section initiate breastfeeding later compared to those who give birth vaginally. Immediate skin-to-skin contact and higher parity were also significantly associated with shorter time to initiating breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Infant and Young Child Feeding in the Context of COVID-19
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
During COVID-19, UNICEF recommends that mothers follow hygiene precautions while continuing recommended feeding practices. It calls for coordinating nutrition, health, food security and livelihood, agriculture, WASH, social protection, and mental health support to reach infants and young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This brief summarizes new evidence related to nutrients, dietary patterns, and nutritional supplements, including improving the micronutrient composition of breastmilk. It identifies additional research needed to design effective interventions to improve maternal and infant nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Toolkit: Workplace Lactation Support Program
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This toolkit provides practical advocacy, policy, technical, and financial guidance for employers, employees, governments, and donors working to support lactation in the workplace. It includes detailed case studies and is available in Vietnamese and English.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Coverage of Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Interventions: A Framework and Empirical Considerations for Survey Question Design
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Infant and young child feeding counselling interventions are common, but data to track coverage of these activities is limited and inconsistent.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making a Difference: An Evaluation Report of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) in Mobilising National Actions on Breastfeeding and IYCF
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The WBTi has brought together diverse partners to advocate for breastfeeding and created national-level structures to benchmark breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) progress.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Meeting Emerging Nutrition Data Needs in DHS-8 (Blog)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
To better understand the current state of nutrition and track nutrition interventions, the Woman’s Questionnaire asks 89 questions related to nutrition counseling, including questions on breastfeeding counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding amid COVID-19
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
In this webinar, Dr. Larry Grummer-Strawn from the World Health Organization stresses that women with suspected COVID-19 symptoms can continue to breastfeed according to standard feeding guidelines but must practice proper respiratory and hand hygiene.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) #WBW2020 Pledge Map
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action has crowdsourced events and activities for Breastfeeding Week 2020 around the world. The interactive pledge map allows users to explore details of each event and activity categorized by country.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Videos
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingCOVID-19
These brief videos demonstrate how women with COVID-19 can safely breastfeed. Videos are available in Spanish, English, French, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) #WBW2020 Action Folder
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding requires coordinated actions to identify and address structural, setting, and individual-level determinants. Authors identify fundamental challenges and detail actions that governments, donors, and NGOs must take to create a more enabling environment and improve breastfeeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Business Case for Investment in Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionPrivate-Sector Engagement
Authors discuss the impacts of malnutrition on companies’ bottom line, including loss of productivity due to underweight employees and lifelong cognitive impacts from childhood malnutrition. While corporate entities cannot address all factors driving malnutrition, providing workplace support for breastfeeding women is within businesses’ sphere of influence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Pandemic and Mitigation Strategies: Implications for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
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Food Systems
WastingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
COVID-19 has created profound challenges for maternal and child nutrition. This review urges governments, donors, and others to rely on data for decision-making as they prioritize investments to strengthen food supply chains, respond to acute food shortages, improve access to health care, and provide social safety net programs for the most vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experiences of Incorporating Support for Early Childhood Development into the Baby Friendly Community Initiative in Rural Kenya
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Care for Child Development package trains community health volunteers to help caregivers provide nurturing care and develop stronger relationships with young children. Participating volunteers reported that training increased their skills and confidence, while caregivers reported learning about feeding practices and the importance of play.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Birth & Beyond iOS App
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Birth & Beyond app provides easy access to videos for mothers and other caregivers that focus on birth, breastfeeding, newborn care, small baby care, and complementary feeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Practical Guide to Using Routine Data in Evaluation
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HIV
Technical briefs address how routine data can be used to assess cost effectiveness and determine disease counts and incidence, treatment cascades, program coverage levels, and service utilization rates for several health issues.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Baby Friendly Spaces: An Intervention for Pregnant and Lactating Women and Their Infants in Cameroon
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Baby Friendly Spaces program provides workshops focusing on improving maternal mental health, infant and young child feeding practices, early child stimulation, and parenting skills in the context of complex humanitarian emergencies.
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Safeguarding Progress Towards Improved Nutrition During the COVID-19 Pandemic: USAID Partner Experiences Webinar
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The COVID-19 crisis is creating shocks across multiple sectors and systems that are essential to improving and safeguarding nutrition. USAID's Guiding Principles and Recommendations for Nutrition in the Context of COVID-19 summarized the likely
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guidance On SBC For Nutrition During Covid-19: Technical Brief
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This short guide includes important considerations, messaging, and resources to support country programs in adapting nutrition Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
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Social and Behavior Change for Nutrition During COVID-19 Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have an indirect, yet severe and lasting, effect on maternal and child nutrition. Weakened and overwhelmed health systems can mean reduced access to and utilization of nutrition services.