The first two years are critical for the development and growth of infants and young children. This is the time when adequate nourishment, particularly from breast milk, is needed to create strong and lifelong health foundations as the body significantly develops during these years. Hence, this program aims to provide Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) skills and training to be taught to mothers especially in the critical years of their infant and young children. This includes significantly increasing the prevalence of breastfeeding, along with other feeding skills to ensure proper nutrition for their children.
Well-fed, nurtured children and health mothers; Breastfeeding as a social norm; Competent and dignified health workers; Enabling health systems, communities, and workplaces; and Whole of society working together, accountable to make this vision happen.
Focusing on the First 1,000 Days, stakeholders of the Philippine IYCF Program shall set out to
1. nurture and nourish the mother and child;
2. reduce stunting and all other forms of malnutrition; and
3. create an enabling environment for optimal infant and young child feeding.
- Administrative Order No. 2005-0014 (National Policies on Infant and Young Child Feeding)
- Administrative Order No. 2006-0012 (Revised Implementing Rules And Regulations of Executive Order No. 51, Otherwise Known as The Milk Code, Relevant International Agreements, Penalizing Violations Thereof, and for Other Purposes)
- Administrative Order No. 2007-0026 (Revitalization of the Mother-Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in Health Facilities with Maternity and Newborn Care Services)
Goals
Reduction of child mortality and morbidity through optimal feeding of infants and young children
PhilHealth Benefit Package
- Newborn Care Package
PhilHealth Benefit Package
- Harmonized Maternal, Newborn, Infant, and Young Child Health and Nutrition (MNIYCHN) Training Package
- Essential Maternal and Newborn Care, Lactation Management Training (EMNC-LMT) for Health Facilities
- Mother and Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (MBFHI) Assessors’ Training
- PH Milk Code Monitoring and Reporting Training
- Training on Breastfeeding and Lactation in the Workplace
Implementation Support Materials
- Harmonized Maternal, Newborn, Infant, and Young Child Health and Nutrition (MNIYCHN) Training Package (The Community Maternal Nutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding Peer Counseling Training Toolkit is a resource with 12 modules designed to equip community breastfeeding and nutrition counselors, and primary health care workers who have contact with pregnant women, mothers, and their infants and young children in the community.)
- Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: the revised BABY-FRIENDLY HOSPITAL INITIATIVE (This document contains the latest version of the guidance for implementing the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in facilities providing maternity and newborn services, as well as guidance for coordination and management of the BFHI at national (or subnational where applicable) level.)
- Healthy Beginnings for a Better Society: BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE IS POSSIBLE A TOOLKIT (This Toolkit weaves medical knowledge and practical sense into policy recommendations to help the user appreciate the impact of actions in workplaces and public spaces, beyond compliance.)
- Milk Code Monitoring Kit (The “Pink Book” is a compendium of key policies that guide the implementation and monitoring of the Philippine Milk Code.)
National/Government
- Department of Trade and Industry
- Department of Social Welfare and Development
- Department of Justice
- National Nutrition Council
- Philippine Information Agency
- Department of Labor and Employment
Local/Youth/CSOs, NGOs
- Philippine Coalition of Advocates of Nutrition (PhilCAN)
- Kalusugan ng Mag-ina Foundation, Inc.
- Adarna Foundation, Inc.
- Breastfeeding Pinays
- Modern Nanays of Mindanao
- Arugaan
International Partners
- UNICEF
- World Vision Development Foundation
- Save the Children
- Nutrition International
- Alive & Thrive