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• IMPLEMENTED BY
• PROGRAM ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH
  (PATH)
• AND ITS PARTNERS
• CARE, THE MANOFF GROUP AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH
  CORPORATION

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• 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

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• Collaborating Institutions (cont)
• 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

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• USAID Core Funding USAID Field Support
• GH/HIDN/NUT Country Missions
• US46 m. Ceiling Over 5 Years

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• Three IYCN Goals
• Improve infant and young child nutritional status
• Increase HIV-Survival
• Improve maternal nutritional status

Photo PATH
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• 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
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• 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
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• IYCN Premise
• Is We Know What the Package is to Improve
  Nutritional Status
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• We Know Less About How to Implement Programs to
  Improve Nutritional Status

Photo by Carib Nelson, PATH
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• 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
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• 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
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• Implementation Approaches
• Individualized counseling tailored to the
  caregivers situation and childs 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
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IYCN Will Seek to Answer Specific Questions for
the Country Context What Percentage of Families
Have Adequate Food But Inadequate Practices
Adequate Practices Inadequate Practices
Adequate Food
Inadequate Food
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• 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
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• IYCN WANTS TO LEARN FROM OTHERS AND SHARE
  EXPERIENCES TO FACILITATE IMPROVING THE
  NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN
• THANK YOU!

Photo The Manoff Group