Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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
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
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
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. Questions also include anthropometry measurement, food and cash assistance, iron supplementation, minimum dietary diversity for women, unhealthy foods for children, growth monitoring, and the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. The Questionnaire will be ready for use in late 2020.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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. Almost all countries that have conducted multiple WBTi assessments have seen improvements in breastfeeding and IYCF practices; have developed better policies, partnerships, and monitoring tools; and are better able to identify gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Infant and young child feeding counselling interventions are common, but data to track coverage of these activities is limited and inconsistent. Authors introduce a framework for designing surveys to measure counselling coverage and stress that surveys must include questions about timing, place, and frequency of contact, target behavior, message content, type of service provider, and mode of intervention. Triangulating data with local administrative data is also recommended.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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
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
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. It also highlights the need to prioritize preventive services to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on young children’s diets and wellbeing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This community of practice, launched in June 2019, showcases examples of and approaches to working with the private sector in international agricultural innovation.