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Initiation of breastfeeding within one hour

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Exclusive Breastfeeding for the first six months
 
South Asia
WBTi : A Successful South Asia Model
The State of the World's Breastfeeding South Asia Report

 The State of the World's Breastfeeding South Asia Report

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Initiation of Breastfeeding
(within 1 hour)
in South Asia 2006
Exclusive Breastfeeding
(for first 6 months)
in South Asia 2006
D Grade C Grade
B Grade A Grade
 
Key to Scoring, Colour-rating and Grading
Part I : Practices (Indicator 1-5)
In the case of indicators 1 to 5 on practices, key to rating is used from WHO's 'Infant and Young Child Feeding: A tool for assessing national practices, policies and programmes". Scoring, color-rating and grading are provided according to IBFAN Asia's guidelines for WBTi. Each indicator is scored out of maximum of 10.
Practices
(Indicator 1-5)		 WHO's Infant and Young Child
Feeding: A tool for assessing
national practices, policies and
programmes		 IBFAN Asia Guideline for WBTi
Initiation of
Breastfeeding
(within 1 hour)		 Key to rating Scores Colour-rating Grading
0-29% 3 Red D
30-49% 6 Yellow C
50-89% 9 Blue B
90-100% 10 Green A
 
Exclusive
Breastfeeding (for
first 6 months)		 0-11% 3 Red D
12-49% 6 Yellow C
50-89% 9 Blue B
90-100% 10 Green A
 
Median Duration of
Breastfeeding		 0-17 Months 3 Red D
18-20 Months 6 Yellow C
21-22 Months 9 Blue B
23-24 Months 10 Green A
 
Bottle Feeding
(<6 months)		 30-100% 3 Red D
5-29% 6 Yellow C
3-4% 9 Blue B
0-2% 10 Green A
 
Complementary
Feeding (6-9 months)		 0-59% 3 Red D
60-79% 6 Yellow C
80-94% 9 Blue B
95-100% 10 Green A
Total Score of all indicators 1 to 5:
Total score of infant and young child feeding practices (indicators 1-5) are calculated out of 50.
0 - 15 Red D
16 - 30 Yellow C
31 - 45 Blue B
46 - 50 Green A
Part II: Policies and Programme (Indicator 6-15)
For indicator 6 to15 on policies and programmes, there is a sub set of questions leading to key achievement, indicating how a country is doing in a particular area. Each question has possible score of 0-3 and the indicator has a maximum score of 10.
0 - 3 Red D
4 - 6 Yellow C
7 - 9 Blue B
more than 9 Green A
Part II total (6-15 indicators)
Total score of infant and young child feeding policies and programmes (indicators 6-15) are calculated out of 100.
0 - 30 Red D
31 - 60 Yellow C
61 - 90 Blue B
91 - 100 Green A
Total Score of all indicators 1 to 15
Total score of infant and young child feeding practices, policies and programmes (indicators 1-15) are calculated out of 150. Countries are then graded as:
0 - 45 Red D
46 - 90 Yellow C
91 - 135 Blue B
136 - 150 Green A
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Disclaimer: IBFAN Asia is not liable for national and international boundaries. Our aim is mapping of status of infant and young child feeding in the countries. Source:Compare Infobase Ltd,New Delhi.
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