Infant and young child feeding

Job Aids and Tools

A support group session

This two-page job aid helps community volunteers in Nigeria conduct community infant and young child feeding (C-IYCF) support groups after they receive their training on IYCF.

Mother feeding her child

SPRING developed and produced a Kyrgyz-language booklet for mothers entitled “Nutrition & Development of Children Under Two Years of Age,” in coordination with the government of the...

Activities

Two women smiling during training

SPRING conducts trainings for health care providers to improve the quality and quantity of nutrition services and counselling throughout the Kyrgyz Republic.

News

SPRING’s Study Coordinator, Ms. Susan Adeyemi interviews a Community Volunteer from Kasuwan Magani Ward.

Drs. Pérez-Escamilla and Lamstein recently conducted a mid-process assessment of implementation of the C-IYCF Counseling Package in Kajuru LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

U.S. Ambassador Jackson engages with Kasuliyili CHPS Compound staff on available health services.

U.S. Ambassador Jackson visits the community-based health planning and services compound in Kasuliyili

Minister of Health Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye visits the SPRING exhibit

International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Africa, in collaboration with IBFAN Uganda and the Government of Uganda, hosted the IBFAN Africa Regional Conference 2016 in Kampala.

Nicole Racine, SPRING/Haiti country manager handing the microphone to Center Nutrition Focal Point, Miss Ninette Dupuy with Trainers from Hopital Ste Therese de Hinche at the closing ceremony on October 13, 2015.

SPRING/Haiti praised trainings and information gained during the project and will continue toward NACS and IYCF goals.

Galleries

Mr. Adams George Ango (Kajuru LGA Nutrition Focal Person), Sascha Lamstein (SPRING Co-Principal Investigator), a C-IYCF Community Volunteer for Idon ward, Dr. Florence Oni (UNICEF/Kaduna Nutrition Specialist), and Rafael Perez-Escamilla (SPRING consultant, Principal Investigator).

SPRING traveled to Kajuru LGA, Kaduna State, to conduct a mid-process assessment of the implementation of the Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) counseling package in Nigeria...

One-on-one counseling session, coaches-level training, Jos, Plateau state. 2015

A pictorial review of SPRING's work in Nigeria over three years of implementation.

IYCF counseling in Jos

Through 20 training courses, SPRING/Nigeria built the capacity of USAID OVC staff to deliver IYCF best practices.

Great Mothers Campaign

SPRING/Uganda launches new campaign to improve parents’ nutrition practices toward their young children.

Training Materials

Diagram of how to hold an infant

Le « Guide provisoire du facilitateur pour la formation du personnel de santé dans les établissements sanitaires » fournit certes une base pour renforcer les capacités de ces derniers à...

Health worker shows a mother proper breastfeeding techiques while the father looks on

Cette « Formation sur site pour le personnel de santé: Assistance-Conseil sur l’Alimentation du Nourrisson et du Jeune Enfant (ANJE)» a été développée avec le support du projet SPRING, en...

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Reference Handbook for Peace Corps Volunteers and Community Volunteers

The training aims to empower Peace Corps Staff, Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and Community Volunteers (CVs) with knowledge and proven-effective messages on women’s nutrition, infant and...

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Four Hour Orientation for Peace Corps Volunteers and Community Volunteers

The training aims to empower Peace Corps Staff, Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and Community Volunteers (CVs) with knowledge and proven-effective messages on women’s nutrition, infant and...

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Training Guide for Peace Corps Health Volunteers and Peace Corps Staff

The training aims to empower Peace Corps Staff, Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and Community Volunteers (CVs) with knowledge and proven-effective messages on women’s nutrition, infant and...

Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions: A Training Guide for Peace Corps Volunteers and Community Volunteers

The training aims to empower Peace Corps Staff, Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs), and Community Volunteers (CVs) with knowledge and proven-effective messages on women’s nutrition, infant and...

Success Stories

Infant in a blanket

At birth, Nyepesi lost her mother to HIV. She was left in the care of her grandmother, Maza Akaba, who lives in Ichecheni community, 10 kilometers from Nyepesi’s home in Lafia, Nigeria. No...

Community members learn about the importance of proper infant and young child feeding practices, Utagban community, Edo state.

Recognizing the need for better feeding practices in Utagban, two USAID-funded projects are collaborating to provide nutrition training in the community.SPRING used UNICEF and World Health...

Women attending a training session

SPRING/Nigeria collaborated with Nigeria’s Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MOWA), and the USAID-funded STEER project to roll out the community infant and young child...

Videos

One woman teaches another about preventing diarrhea

The community health worker, Koni, is making house visits and finds a young child with diarrhea. The child’s mother, Larai, believes it is because the child is teething and does not take...

Two women sitting on a rug and talking

Wasila does not feel well, so her mother-in-law and husband take her to the health center, where she learns that she is one-month pregnant. The health worker advises her on practices she...

Two women sitting on a rug reading a pamphlet

Chima runs into her neighbors on the way to the field, and her neighbor, Rakiya, explains that she is carrying a snack to the field for her baby to eat, even though her baby has already had...

Responsive Feeding is Possible

A woman prepares porridge for her baby, and asks her husband to feed the child while she goes out.

Reports

Four women and one man measuring a newborn

Recognizing the need for training health care workers (HCW), the gap in knowledge related to effective training approaches, and the extensive resources that are invested in trainings, we...

Case Studies

woman holding baby

The intervention uses mass media, including television commercials, and community mobilization through social activities centered on women’s groups.

Woman with child

A&T implements multi-component programs that make strategic use of data to plan, assess, and evaluate program impact to improve child feeding practices. The aim is to disseminate the...

Pages

Resource Review Summaries

How can nutrition education and behavior change influence agricultural interventions? In 2014, process reviews were conducted in Cambodia and Malawi of food security projects that provided...

A working paper in the GAIN Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) series, entitled "Strengthening the enabling environment for scaling up access to good quality complementary foods,"...

The Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project aimed to design, implement and evaluate a model of multi-sectoral integration of interventions to reduce the prevalence of...

In 2011, one in every four children under 5 years of age worldwide was stunted. The realization that most stunting cannot be explained by poor diet or by diarrhea, nor completely reversed...

This paper documents the Alive & Thrive project’s efforts to scale-up infant and young child feeding interventions in three countries from 2009 to 2013. Systems strengthening is seen as...

SPRING, UNICEF, and the World Food Program (WFP), in collaboration with the Ugandan Ministry of Health (MOH), launched a home fortification program as a strategy to combat micronutrient...

The final report of the Technical Meeting on “Integrating Agriculture and Nutrition Education for Improved Young Child Feeding” consists of 2 parts. The first covers the proceedings of the...

The FAO has published detailed process reviews of two agriculture-nutrition education projects that aimed to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices using local foods,...

The State of the World's Children in Numbers, is an engaging, interactive, and thoughtfully designed web-based tool highlighting data and stories about the children around the world. PDF...