Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project

Overview and Objectives

Improve the nutritional status of mothers, infants, and young children and the HIV-free survival of children. Focus on proven interventions that are effective from the start of pregnancy through the first two years of life. Provide technical assistance in monitoring and evaluation, quality improvement, HIV and infant feeding training, and job aid development.

The IYCN website provides training tools, publications, and other resources on maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and infant feeding.

Objectives include:

  • Develop job aids and training curricula to train community- and facility-based health workers,
  • Integrate quality improvement principles into nutritional assessment and counseling in health facilities and communities, and
  • Pilot and test new monitoring and evaluation tools to improve the quality of infant-feeding counseling and support.

Achievements

URC provided technical support to:

  • Launch the National Infant and Young Child Feeding Training Curriculum for health workers in Lesotho in 2010;
  • Develop nationally validated infant and young child feeding counseling cards for health workers in Haiti;
  • Build the capacity of health workers and community-based workers to counsel and support mothers on infant and young child nutrition;
  • Develop a model to integrate quality improvement principles into nutrition, assessment, and counseling support in health facilities and communities; and
  • Strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems for country nutrition programs, including the development of health worker supervision checklists and rapid assessment tools for country programs.

Duration
2006–2011

Countries
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Regions
Global

Expertise
Health Systems Strengthening, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Nutrition, Quality Improvement, Social and Behavior Change

Funders
USAID

Partners
CARE, PATH, The Manoff Group