IMPLEMENTED BY: PROGRAM ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH (PATH) AND ITS PARTNERS:

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. USAID Core Funding USAID Field Support GH/HIDN/NUT Country Missions US$46 m. Ceiling Over 5 Years

6. Three IYCN Goals: • Improve infant and young child nutritional status • Increase HIV-Survival • Improve maternal nutritional status Photo: PATH

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. IYCN WANTS TO LEARN FROM OTHERS AND SHARE EXPERIENCES TO FACILITATE IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN THANK YOU! Photo: The Manoff Group