Venance Kouakou, IYCN technical advisor, shares his experience supporting social centers in improving nutrition for OVC. Social center directors from 21 communities received packages of scales, height measuring boards, mid-upper arm circumference tapes, cook stoves, […]
Date: Jul 27, 2010 | Category: Updates from the field
Josephine Nyambe, behavioral change communications specialist for the IYCN Project in Zambia, shares her experiences developing a radio campaign to promote better nutrition for infants and young children. In January 2010, we began airing a […]
Date: May 3, 2010 | Category: Updates from the field
Benny Sikhakhane, consultant for the IYCN Project, shares his experiences working on a community-based nutritional measurement project in South Africa. On October 20th, I conducted an orientation for 46 community volunteers, including young mothers, grandmothers, […]
Date: Feb 11, 2010 | Category: Updates from the field
Denise Lionetti, IYCN project director, shares her experience at the National Infant and Young Child Feeding Stakeholders’ meeting below. During World Breastfeeding Week, I traveled to Kenya, along with my colleague Albertha Nyaku, IYCN’s […]
Date: Sep 15, 2009 | Category: Updates from the field
Rose Mireille Exumé, IYCN country coordinator in Haiti, shares her experience during World Breastfeeding Week in Grand Goâve and La Gonâve Island. On Thursday, August 6, I was in Grand Goâve, a small city in […]
Date: Aug 9, 2009 | Category: Updates from the field
Makatleho Masoabi, IYCN Country Coordinator, shares her experience with pretesting Lesotho’s new infant and young child feeding training curriculum. In April, I worked with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to pretest Lesotho’s new […]
Date: Jul 4, 2009 | Category: Updates from the field