Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding

WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding whose aim is to improve – through optimal feeding – the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.

The Strategy is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact, it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in this regard of governments, international organizations and other concerned parties.