Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child
Feeding :World
Health Assembly (WHA) and UNICEF adopted
the Global Strategy,which
sets five additional targets: national
policy on infant and young child feeding,
community outreach, information support,
infant feeding in difficult circumstances
and monitoring and evaluation.
The “Innocenti Declaration” (3) was confirmed by 139 governments in 1990. It recommended all governments to have national breastfeeding committees and coordinators as established mechanisms to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the country. World Summit for Children recommends, “All governments should develop national breastfeeding policies. The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding calls for an urgent action form all Member States to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate a comprehensive policy on IYCF
