IYCF assessment with small-sample surveys A proposal for a simplified and structured approach
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This article describes an approach to assessing infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices using small-sample surveys which was developed jointly by VALID International; CONCERN Worldwide; Save the Children; the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation; the Niger National Institute of Statistics; the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI); the Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and Brixton Health. It is, in large part, a development of earlier work undertaken by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) project.
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