WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
WHO and UNICEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding whose aim is to improve – through optimal feeding – the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.
The Global Strategy’s specific objectives are:
- to raise awareness of the main problems affecting infant and young child feeding, identify approaches to their solution, and provide a framework of essential interventions;
- to increase the commitment of governments, international organizations and other concerned parties for optimal feeding practices for infants and young children;
- to create an environment that will enable mothers, families and other caregivers in all circumstances to make – and implement – informed choices about optimal feeding practices for infants and young children.
La Leche League Internation (LLLI) supports the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding and has made a commitment to promote the strategy.