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Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)
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Infant and Young Feeding in Emergencies in the Context of COVID-19 Brief No. 2
To support implementers on how to prepare and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of evidence-informed guidance briefs will be produced and updated every ten (10) days as new information and evidence emerge. This Brief is meant to provide informati
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Should We Continue to Place Mothers and Newborns Skin-to-skin at Birth during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
In times of uncertainty, we can come to question practices that have been proven to be beneficial. The same is true for our birthing practices. This guidance note relates to the skin-to-skin practice between mother and child after birth.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Breastfeeding and COVID-19: For health care workers
Draws on other WHO recommendations on Infant and Young Child Feeding and the Interagency Working Group Operational Guidance on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies. A decision tree shows how these recommendations may be implemented by health work
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Frequently Asked Questions: Breastfeeding and COVID-19 for health care workers
This FAQ complements the WHO interim guidance: Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when COVID-19 disease is suspected (13 March 2020- www.who.int/publications-detail/clinical-management-of-severe-acuterespi... (ncov)-infection
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Multi-Purpose Cash Transfer 'Plus': Maximizing impact on children through integrated cash-based programming- October 2019, Columbia
In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelans into Colombia. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them
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Integrating Infant and Young Child Feeding and Family Planning in Emergencies
Effective family planning (FP) and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) programs in humanitarian settings are essential to protect, promote and support the health and well-being of women, newborns and children. This brief describes Save the Children's ef
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Don't Push It: Why the formula milk industry must clean up its act
The lives and the health of millions of vulnerable children are at risk from a threat that receives too little attention – the rapid growth of the market for baby milk formula. The unique life-saving and life-enhancing benefits of breastfeeding are proven
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Vanuatu First 1,000 Days Project: Baseline Report
Save the Children is implementing the First 1,000 Days project, which aims to reduce stunting among children under five years of age by improving maternal and child nutrition practices in 33 communities across Shefa, Sanma, and Penama Provinces. This hous
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C-MAMI Tool, Version 2
The C-MAMI Tool provides a health worker with a format to assess, identify/classify, and manage at-risk mothers and infants under six months in the community (C-MAMI) who are nutritionally vulnerable. The aim of the C-MAMI Tool is to help put the latest W
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Vanuatu First 1,000 Days Project: Barrier Analysis Report
Save the Children in Vanuatu is implementing the First 1,000 Days project, which aims to reduce stunting among children under five by improving maternal and child health and nutrition practices in 33 communities across Shefa, Sanma, and Penama Provinces.
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The Dirty Truth about the Infant Formula Industry
How come poor mothers in low-income countries chose industrially processed powder to feed their babies, when most of them have access to a clean, healthy alternative – for free? The Norwegian doctor Line Jansrud, mum and pregnant, is determined to find ou
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Effectiveness of Community-based Infant and Young Child (IYCF) Support Group Model in Reducing Child Undernutrition Among Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam
This child nutrition project was implemented at Thuong Xuan District in Than Hoa province in Northern Vietnam and was jointly designed to be a community-based infant and young child (IYCF) support group model with Alive & Thrive as an SBCC intervention fo