Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI)

National network of organizations and individuals dedicated to protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant and young child feeding practices
 
IYCF Policy and Programme
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 Community Outreach  


 
What is Community Outreach
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Outreach and support to women in communities is essential for succeeding in optimal breastfeeding practice. The activities in this include individual or group counselling, home visits or other locally relevant activities that ensure access of infant and young child feeding counselling services to all women. Existing services and community support sub systems need to be looked at, and provision for counselling on infant and young child feeding services built into them. Women who deliver in hospital also need continued support in the community, or they may not be able to maintain exclusive breastfeeding. In fact, community support should be available for all members of the family including the father and the grandmother of the baby, who exert important influence on infant feeding behaviour in the region.

Community Outreach : INDICATOR 11 in WBTi , an innovative initiative of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Asia for tracking assessing and monitoring the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
know more visit http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/

 
Where we are
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Key question: Are there community outreach and support mechanisms in place to protect, promote and support optimal infant and young child feeding?

  Criteria Scoring
Check that apply.		 2005 2008
  Yes To some degree No    
  11.1) Women have access to counseling services on infant and young child feeding in the community during pregnancy 2 1 0 1 1
  11.2) Women have access to infant and young child feeding counseling after birth 2 1 0 1 1
  11.3) Infant and young child feeding counseling services have national coverage. 2 1 0 1 1
  11.4) Counseling services are integrated into an overall infant and young child health and development strategy (inter-sectoral and intra-sectoral). 2 1 0 1 0
  11.5) Counselors are trained in skills 2 1 0 1 1
  Total Score: ___/10__ 5 4

 
 
for details seeThe State of the World’s Breastfeeding: http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/countrysubmit.php?country=India


What we are doing (as BPNI)

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Trainings and Capacity Building:
BPNI works towards training of health professionals and community workers to protect promote and support breastfeeding.



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