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Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project
Client: United States Agency for International Development, Global Health Bureau, Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition, Nutrition Division (GH/HIDN/NUT)
Prime Contractor: PATH
The Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project builds on the USAID’s long term support in addressing malnutrition in developing countries. By providing support for nutrition and health interventions in communities, the USAID has developed best practices for improving the nutritional status of children in developing countries.
Under the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project, URC serves as subcontractor to the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). The contract was awarded to PATH by the USAID's Global Health Bureau, Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition, Nutrition Division (GH/HIDN/NUT) for the period September 22, 2006 through September 21, 2011.
Goals
The three primary goals of the IYCN Project are to improve:
- Infant and young child nutritional status
- HIV-free survival of infants and young children
- Maternal nutritional status
URC is providing technical assistance to support project activities:
- Identification, scale-up, and institutionalization of cost-effective interventions to improve infant and young child and maternal nutritional status
- Promotion, scale-up, and institutionalization of optimal infant and young child feeding and caring practices in the context of HIV/AIDS
- Development and implementation of public/private sector partnerships, strategies, and interventions to increase the availability of high quality foods for infants and young children
- Increase of national and donor commitment to improve infant and young child nutrition
- Implementation of monitoring strategies and assessment of data quality, collection methods, and sources of information and data use for strengthening programs
- Development of cost-effectiveness analyses to strengthen global leadership efforts
- Provision of assistance to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Lesotho to increase access to and demand for high quality infant and young child feeding and support, in the context of the National Scale-Up Plan for its PMTCT and Pediatric HIV Care and Treatment Programmes, with a particular emphasis on building the capacity for community involvement
- Development of an optimal infant and young child feeding module for IYCN Haiti to be included in the PMTCT training curriculum and draft of a complimentary feeding module for infants and young children for the IYCF training of community agents
Geographic Focus
Worldwide
Partnerships
- PATH
- CARE
- The Manoff Group
Web Sites
 The IYCN Project web site offers nutrition information and resources for global health professionals. Find training tools, publications, and other resources on maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, infant feeding within the context of HIV, and infant feeding during and after illness. Visit www.iycn.org to learn more and sign up for email updates.
For more information, please contact:
Sophie J. Barbu
Project Coordinator
International Development Group
University Research Co., LLC
7200 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
sbarbu@urc-chs.com
Office Phone: 1-301-941-8625
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