Scaling up protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding at the community level.

A World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF consultation held in 2008 focused on actions needed to promote infant and young child feeding, including integrating breastfeeding in community and health sector interventions; accelerating progress in breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support among working women; integrating breastfeeding into community development programs; advocacy and communication; situation analysis, monitoring, and evaluation; and planning and capacity building. Recommendations were given on how these could be accelerated based on reviews of country programs.