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IYCF
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Community
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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.
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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/
Key question: Are there community outreach and support mechanisms in place to protect, promote and support optimal infant and young child feeding? |
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Scoring
Check that apply. |
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Yes |
To some degree |
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| 11.1) Women have access to counseling services on infant and young child feeding in the community during pregnancy |
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| 11.2) Women have access to infant and young child feeding counseling after birth |
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1 |
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| 11.3) Infant and young child feeding counseling services have national coverage. |
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1 |
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| 11.4) Counseling services are integrated into an overall infant and young child health and development strategy (inter-sectoral and intra-sectoral). |
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| 11.5) Counselors are trained in skills |
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Where we are
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India score 5 out of 10,
falling in ‘Grade C ’ with ‘Yellow’ colour
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for details seeThe State of the World’s Breastfeeding: South Asia Report and India report card
source Assessment
of Status of IYCF: Practice, Policy
and Program: Achievements and Gaps 2005 see report |
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What we are doing (As BPNI)
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Supporting Documents
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Area
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