IMPLEMENTED BY:

PROGRAM ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH (PATH)

AND ITS PARTNERS:

CARE, THE MANOFF GROUP AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

Collaborating Institutions:

Private voluntary organizations • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation • Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India • The Emergency Nutrition Network

Faith-based organizations• Christian Connections for International Health• Christian Children's Fund

Universities• University of the Western Cape, South Africa• Uppsala University• Center for International Child Health at University College, London• University of Toronto

Collaborating Institutions (con’t)

Professional organizations: International Pediatric Association

South-to-South partnerships: South Africa's Health System Trust• University of the Western Cape• Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)• Institute de Investigacion Nutricional ( IIN)

Other organizations• The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)• Macro International

USAID Core Funding USAID Field Support

GH/HIDN/NUT Country Missions

US$46 m. Ceiling Over 5 Years

Three IYCN Goals:

• Improve infant and young child nutritional

status

• Increase HIV-Survival

• Improve maternal nutritional status

Photo: PATH

IYCN will achieve these goals by identifying, scaling-up and institutionalizing:

• Cost-effective interventions to improve breastfeeding, complementary feeding and caring practices for all children and those at high risk for HIV and other infections

• Cost-effective interventions to improve maternal nutritional status

Photo: The Manoff Groups

IYCN WILL ALSO:

• Develop public-private partnerships to increase the availability of high quality foods.

• Increase national & donor commitment to improve infant and young child nutrition.

Photo: The Manoff Group

IYCN Premise:

Is We Know What the Package is to Improve Nutritional Status

But

We Know Less About How to Implement Programs to Improve Nutritional Status

Photo by: Carib Nelson, PATH

Implementation Approaches:• Demand driven• Increase the contacts mothers

have with people who can provide advice on IYCF

• Understand the barriers and facilitating factors to changing practices

• Evidence-based messages• Solve barriers to changing

practices

Photo by: Theresa Banda

Implementation Approaches

• Involve family members including fathers and communities in solving the problem of malnutrition

• Focus on preventing malnutrition through integrated, community based activities

Photo: Carrie Tudor

Implementation Approaches

• Individualized counseling tailored to the caregiver’s situation and child’s needs

• Two-way communication with client negotiating with the caregiver to try new practices and the client-provider plans to try new practices and follow-up

Photo: by Irma Yolanda Núñez

Adequate Practices

Inadequate Practices

Adequate Food

Inadequate Food

IYCN Will Seek to Answer Specific Questions for the Country Context: What Percentage of Families Have Adequate Food But Inadequate Practices

IYCN will Seek To Answer Specific Questions for the Appropriate Country Context:

How Can We Improve the Quality of Complementary Foods for All Income Groups?

Photo: Theresa Banda/Malawi MOA

IYCN WANTS TO LEARN FROM OTHERS AND SHARE EXPERIENCES TO FACILITATE IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN

THANK YOU!

Photo: The Manoff Group