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This working paper was designed as a quick reference document outlining two internationally recognized sets of infant and young child-related training and counseling materials: the CORE Group’s Essential Nutrition Actions Framework and the UNICEF Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Package. The document is intended to assist practitioners in understanding the similarities and differences between the two packages, and in making informed decisions about the right materials for their context.
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This report summarizes the impact of Tubaramure, a development food security activity in eastern Burundi from 2012 to 2014. The findings suggest that food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that intervene during the first 1,000 days and that simultaneously address multiple determinants of undernutrition can protect poor families from economic, health, or other shocks in vulnerable countries such as Burundi.
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This document provides a summary of quantitative and qualitative data from formative assessments and existing literature from 11 countries, highlighting common sociocultural practices related to feeding infants and young children and dietary practices of pregnant and lactating women, and providing a framework for a focused strategy to enhance infant and young child nutrition programming.
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This guide is intended to assist researchers, who are already familiar with formative research methods, in conducting formative assessments for infant and young child feeding programs. It offers a brief orientation to infant and young child feeding, describes major formative research methods and techniques that can be applied to nutrition, outlines a process for determining the appropriate formative research approach, and provides guidance for analyzing the information collected.
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Following the development and global dissemination of the generic Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) Counselling Package by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), interest grew in evaluating the effectiveness of the package. In 2014, a formal evaluation of the package was conducted. The research design and results described in this summary report focus on programming in one Nigerian state, but are intended to inform future programming throughout Nigeria and to provide important insights for other countries where the C-IYCF Counselling Package may be implemented.
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This activity sheets aims to help users (1) examine inequalities based on gender and position within a household and the potential impact of such inequalities on the type and amount of food each family member receives; and (2) explore who has the authority to decide and who may be disadvantaged in terms of food distribution in a household. If cultural norms are better understood, opportunities for changing long-standing gendered behaviors related to food security and malnutrition can be improved.
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Since knowledge about feeding young children generally derives from family beliefs, community practices, and information given by health workers, there is a need to empower health workers and community volunteers to provide caregivers with the relevant information and support to achieve optimal nutrition for their children. The Nigeria Community and Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding Package is a necessary tool to ensure uniform training and information sharing throughout Nigeria.
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This open access article in BMC Public Health examines determinants of stunting between 2006 and 2008 in Egyptian children 6 to 59 months of age within the context of a 2006 avian influenza outbreak. There was mass removal of chickens in Lower Egypt as a result of the outbreak, which decreased the household supply of poultry, a key animal-source food that contains nutrients critical for child growth.
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This report reviews evidence on the roles and influence of grandmothers and men on child nutrition, and offers recommendations for program implementers to strengthen community approaches for addressing malnutrition and improving results.