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WHAT
CAN YOU DO TO ENCOURAGE GOOD PRACTICE
WITH REGARDS TO INFANT FEEDING IN EMERGENCIES?
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Be aware of
existing policies and guidelines; develop
your own if necessary.
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Ensure that
agency staff are aware of them and trained
to implement them.
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Monitor practices
in the field, liaise with key partners and
point out poor practices when observed.
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Support programmes
to protect, support and promote breastfeeding.
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Raise awareness
about the inappropriateness of donating
or accepting breastmilk substitutes, bottles
and teats in emergency situations.
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Share your
experiences of infant feeding programme
successes and failures in emergencies with
others (via the ENN Emergency Nutrition
Network).
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If you notice
any violations of the International Code
in emergency situations, report them immediately
to the emergency coordinator and keep the
evidence (for example take photos). Contact
and register the case with your local IBFAN
office, IBFAN-GIFA/Geneva, as well as your
local emergency health coordination body.
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USEFUL INTERNET SITES
EMERGENCY NUTRITION
NETWORK (ENN):
http://www.ennonline.net/
THE SPHERE PROJECT: http://www.sphereproject.org/
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This
text exist in a printed version as a 12 pages
brochure.
Copies of this brochure
can be requested from Wemos or IBFAN-GIFA:
Wemos, P.O. Box 1693, 1000 BR Amsterdam, The
Netherlands (wemos@wemos.nl)
IBFAN-GIFA, Avenue de la Paix 11,
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
(info@gifa.org)
and can be ordered from the Baby Milk Action
on-line Virtual
Shop
This publication was
made possible through financial support from
HIVOS Foundation, the Netherlands, and the Dutch
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development
Cooperation.
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The
International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN, is a coalition
of more than 150 public interest groups in over 90 countries.
IBFAN works to reduce infant and young child morbidity
and mortality, through the promotion of breastfeeding
and the elimination of irresponsible marketing of baby
foods, bottles and teats. IBFAN works towards universal
implementation of the International Code of Marketing
of Breast-milk Substitutes and relevant World Health
Assembly resolutions.
The Geneva Infant Feeding
Association (GIFA) is the regional coordinator for IBFAN-Europe
and the IBFAN liaison office with the international
agencies.
Wemos, member of IBFAN, is a Dutch Non-Governmental Organisation
(NGO) that addresses international health issues through
policy, advocacy and education activities.
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