Action - Atención Integral a la Niñez en la Comunidad (AIN-C) - Breastfeeding promotion and/or counselling - Lactating women (LW)|Pregnant women (PW)

Programme: Atención Integral a la Niñez en la Comunidad (AIN-C)

Programme description

The national Atención Integral a la Niñez en la Comunidad (AIN-C) began in the mid- 1990s and remains in operation at the time of writing as a community-based expansion from the original AIN programme.

Referral to the health facility as needed

Programme type

Large scale programmes

Cost

Intensity as measured by Community Health and Nutrition Workers (CHNWs):children is 3:25, where CHNWs work part-time for 3.5 hours weekly. Financial resource intensity is US$ 6.43/child per year

References

 

WHO (2013) Essential Nutrition Actions – Improving maternal, newborn, infant and young child health and nutrition, which provides a compact of WHO guidance on nutrition interventions targeting the first 1000 days of life. Part I presents the interventions currently recommended by WHO, summarizes the rationale and the evidence, and describes the actions require to implement them. Part II provides an analysis of community-based interventions aimed at improving nutrition and indicates how effective interventions can be delivered in an integrated fashion. It shows how the essential nutrition actions described in the first part have been implemented in large-scale programmes in various settings, what the outcomes have been, and to examine the evidence for attribution of changes in nutritional outcomes to programme activities. This summary of AIN-C is retrieved from the ENA Part II where AIN-C is one of 32 large-scale community-based programs that has been reviewed in detail and evaluated.  

http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/infantfeeding/essential_nutrition_actions/en/

Status: 
On-going
Target group: 
Lactating women (LW)
Pregnant women (PW)
Delivery: 
Community-based
Implementation details : 

Nutrition counselling for EBF less than 6 months of age

Coverage level (%): 
24 of 42 health areas (>50%) in 2006 (18), and by population was 90% of children less than 24 months of age.
Outcome indicator(s): 

Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates

M&E system: 

Evaluation of the AIN-C was planned as a pre- and post-intervention, project and control  comparison study, but the design was altered due to extensive contamination of control communities, non-equivalent groups, and reduced intensity of programme implementation due to changes in funding. A cross-sectional study using baseline data compared AIN-C participants to non-participants. Improved caring practices were reported among AIN-C mothers. A 15.8 ppt difference in EBF at 6 months was found (55.8% AIN-C, 40% non- AIN-C).

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