Complementary Feeding Toolkit

This Codex standard details nutritional and technical aspects of cereal-based foods intended for feeding infants and young children. These include four product categories: 1) Products consisting of cereals which are or have to be prepared for consumption with milk or other appropriate nutritious liquids, 2) Cereals with an added high protein food…

This Codex standard details nutritional and technical aspects of canned baby foods (either in ready-to-eat form or in dry form). Specific aspects covered include: - Composition and quality factors - Food additives - Contaminants - Hygiene requirements - Provisions for packaging - Fill of containers  - Provisions for labelling

This document details Codex recommendations for nutritional and technical aspects of formulated complementary foods for infants and young children. Specific aspects covered include: - Formulation of formulated complementary foods - Processing techniques - Hygienic requirements - Provisions for packaging - Provisions for labelling and instructions…

This document provides guidance on assessing capacity needs among agricultural extension and advisory services. Such a capacity needs assessment would aid in understanding learning gaps, needs and obstacles to integrating nutrition-related objectives into agricultural programmes and policies. The intended audience is agricultural extension and…

This document provides a guideline for the development of farmer field school (FFS) curricula on nutrition and local food plants with a gender approach. The guide begins with an explanation of the FFS approach, followed by an introduction to the main concepts and topics related to nutrition, local food plants and gender. The two levels in the FFS…

This training guide is designed to strengthen the capacity of community workers to deliver and promote essential nutrition and hygiene actions. The guide incorporates sessions that introduce technical contents with practical sessions on counseling and negotiations that use role play and field practice, and guides providers in ways to deliver…

This document provides operational guidance related to the preconditions, design, logistics, implementation and monitoring of programs providing SQ-LNS and aims to build on and harmonize existing guidance by providing practical information to policymakers, program managers and implementers. It addresses key considerations when deciding whether and…

The Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package guides the local adaptation, design, planning and implementation of community-based counselling on early childhood nutrition counselling and support services at scale. The training uses an interactive and expriential adult learning approach that enhances counselling, problem solving…

This handbook is designed for trainees at the commune and village levels in Alive & Thrive project areas. It is to be used during training and implementation of activities for the IYCF Support Groups model. It covers objectives for the trainee and an agenda of the training. There are four chapters in the trainee handbook: 1) Introduction of…

This is a collection of over 900 images, developed from adaptations of UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package . These, and other similar images about recommended IYCF practices, have been used in more than 70 countries for counseling and training to promote…

Through 12 case studies, this report examines how the Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) analyses can be leveraged to enhance the ability of national social protection systems in addressing the affordability gaps of nutritious diets. Social protection systems are vital for supporting vulnerable populations but often overlook their nutritional needs,…

This manual provides details on the updated set of 17 indicators from WHO/UNICEF for assessing infant and young child feeding practices, including breastfeeding and complementary feeding indicators. The purposes of the indicators include assessment (to make national and subnational comparisons and describe trends over time), targeting (to identify…