2023年12月20日 · Infant and young child feeding is a key area to improve child survival and promote healthy growth and development. The first 2 years of a child’s life are particularly important, as optimal nutrition during this period lowers morbidity and mortality, reduces the risk of chronic disease, and fosters better development overall.

UNICEF’s expanded database on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) provides country-level trends recommended IYCF indicators. All publicly available MICS and DHS (phase 5-7) have been reanalyzed to produce standardized estimates across years and surveys programs.

IYCF is a set of well-known and common recommendations for appropriately feeding newborns and children under two years of age. It includes early initiation of breastfeeding, EBF for the first six months, and complementary feeding after six months .

• Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices directly affect the nutritional status of children under two years of age and, ultimately, impact child survival . Protecting, and where necessary, improving on, infant

This document presents a set of new and updated indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at household level. It is a follow-up to the 2008 document “Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices – Part I & II”. In total, there are 17 recommended IYCF indicators in the 2021 edition.

Overall, only 21% of breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding children are fed in accordance with the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) recommendations. WHO/UNICEF have emphasized the first 1000 days of life i.e, the 270 days in-utero and the first two years after birth as the critical window period for nutritional interventions.

2017年6月22日 · The global Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Indicators were published in 2008 and related operational guide was introduced in 2010. In the years since their introduction, IYCF indicators have been used to understand trends and monitor progress in IYCF practices.

The IYCF-E Toolkit has been designed as a collection of tools needed to begin implementation of IYCF-E programmes, as a new emergency nutrition activity. The Toolkit was envisioned not as a re-creation of existing tools and

2021年2月22日 · Group education/Counselling: In the context of IYCF, behavior change communication encompasses activities designed to enhance the ability and motivation of caregivers to voluntarily adopt nutrition-related behaviors

2017年8月5日 · IYCF support refers to the various forms of support provided by an individual, community or organization to promote, protect and support appropriate IYCF practices. The support can be in the form of budget for IYCF activities, passage of local resolutions and ordinances, monitoring of Milk Code and related