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IYCF
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Community
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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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Activity and Results
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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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Assessment
of Status of IYCF: Practice, Policy and
Program:Achievements and Gaps
The assessment team referred several documents including Status of infant and Young Child Feeding in 49 districts (98 blocks) of India (BPNI 2003), Report of BFHI study done by BPNI (2000), BPNI/UNICEF /NIPCCD observation visit – Uttaranchal, Report of the project titled BCC campaign for promoting breastfeeding practices in disaster prone Bhuj district of Gujarat – a study done by BPNI, National report of concurrent evaluation of ICDS by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), 2001. The assessment team felt that there is some progress in this field but a lot more remains to be accomplished.Download
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Supporting Documents
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Area
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