Protection, Promotion and Support of Healthy Maternal, Infant and Young Child Feeding

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This section looks at healthy nutrition from a programmatic point of view. It includes links with high impact nutrition interventions and an introduction on the Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) approach to support planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of high-impact nutrition interventions. It is intended mainly for practitioners and program managers.

• Ten facts on Nutrition

Protection, Promotion and Support of healthy maternal, infant and young child Feeding

• Underlying Principles of Protection, Promotion and Support of healthy Nutrition
• High-impact Nutrition Interventions

The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENAs) Approach

• Healthy Maternal Nutrition
• Exclusive Breastfeeding for Infant 0-6 months
• Healthy complementary Feeding for Children 6-35 months
• Feeding a Sick Child, during and after Illness
• Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD)
• Control of Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA)
• Control of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD)

Review the 2011 updated version of
Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) Framework

The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework  an operational framework for managing the advocacy, planning and delivery of an integrated package of preventive nutrition actions encompassing infant and young child feeding (IYCF), micronutrients and women's nutrition. Using multiple contact points, it targets health services and behavior change communication support (BCC) to women and young children during the first 1,000 days of life - from conception through the first two years of life - when nutrient requirements are increased, the risks of undernutrition are great, and the consequences of deficiencies most likely to be irreversible. All these actions have been proven to improve nutritional status and reduce mortality.

The training component for the implementation of the ENA framework at both the health facility and community levels include 3 guides as follows:

1. The Booklet of Key ENA Messages (Word Version) / French (Word) illustrates the key ENA messages and can be used by those implementing and supporting health, nutrition, and food security programs for improving nutrition practices among pregnant and lactating mothers and children under two.

2.  ENA Health Worker Training Guide (Word Version) / French (Word) equips health service providers with the technical, action-oriented nutrition knowledge and counseling skills needed to support pregnant women, mothers with children under two years of age, and other key family members to adopt optimal nutrition practices.

2b.  ENA Health Worker Handouts (Word Version) / French (Word)

3.  ENA Community Volunteers Training Guide (Word Version) / French (Word) equips semi-literate or illiterate Community Volunteers with the basic action-oriented nutrition knowledge and counseling skills needed to support pregnant women, mothers with children under two years and other key family members to adopt optimal nutrition practices

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Resources for Protection, Promotion and Support of Healthy Maternal, Infant and Young Child Feeding World Health Organization CDD Programme, UNICEF Training modules on Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Breastfeeding Counselling - A Training Course - Trainer's Guides Part One - Sessions 1-9  112 pages 976kb Part Two - Sessions 10-19  112 pages 970kb Part Three - Sessions 20-30  122 pages 1.2mb Part Four - Sessions 31-34  33 pages 389kb   Complementary Feeding - Family foods for breastfed children - WHO Cover and Contents   6 pages 397kb Part 1 18 pages 2.7mb Part 2 14 pages 1.7mb Part 3  13 pages 2mb Annexes  5 pages 683kb   Maternal Nutrition Training of Trainers Module - Women's Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle and in the Context of HIV and AIDS 108 pages 538kb USAID, AED, Linkages Project   Infant and young child feeding update  25 pages 1.5mb This document provides a comparison of indicators among a wide range of countries on infant and young child feeding practices USAID   Improving Exclusive Breastfeeding at Scale - Lessons from Madagascar in Two Coastal Provinces     18 pages 1.1mb Madagascar provides programmatic lessons on how to bring exclusive breastfeeding at scale Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI)   Example of a country strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding National Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding     28 pages 250kb Federal Ministry of Health, Family Health Department, Ethiopia   Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) BFHI training materials for 2006 and beyond   Social Protection and cash transfers in Uganda     4 pages 369kb Frequently asked questions on cash transfers - June 2007, Policy Brief No.3/2007   Food Security Integrated Phase Classification Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification (IPC) Framework    4 pages 351kb - FAO   Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification: Technical Manual Version I     56 pages 1.7mb Technical Series, Report No. IV. 11, May 11, 2006 - Food Security Analysis Unit - Somalia, Nairobi, Kenya   Integrated Food Security and Humanitarian Phase Classification System (IPC) Working Group Session     26 pages 477kb 5 February 2007, Jacaranda Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya   Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Technical updates of the guidelines on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) - Evidence and recommendations for further adaptations     45 pages 225kb - WHO   Iron Focusing on anaemia - Towards an integrated approach for effective anaemia control    2 pages 1.2mb Joint statement by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund   Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent  2 pages 254kb   Guidelines for the Use of Iron Supplements to Prevent and Treat Iron Deficiency anaemia 46 pages 534kb   Food Security Choosing Outcome Indicators of Household Food Security    29 pages 146kb John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research Institute   Sprinkles Home fortification with micronutrients sprinkles - A new approach for the prevention and treatment of nutritional Anaemias     4 pages 139kb   Micronutrient Sprinkles to Control Childhood Anaemia - A simple powdered sachet may be the key to addressing a global problem    5 pages 95 kb Stanley H. Zlotkin*, Claudia Schauer, Anna Christofi des, Waseem Sharieff, Mélody C. Tondeur, S. M. Ziauddin Hyder   a global partnership to end child hunger and undernutrition - 2 pages 101kb Ending Child Hunger & Undernutrition Initiative UN agencies, NGOs, civil society and the private sector are working together to launch a global effort to effectively end child hunger and undernutrition within a generation.

14 September, 2019