World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) - Web Based Toolkit
Part I: Policies and Programme (Indicator 1-10)
For indicator 1 to10 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
4 - 6
Yellow
7 - 9
Blue
9.1 to 10
Green
Part I total (1-10 indicators)
Total score of infant and young child feeding policies and programmes (indicators 1-10) are calculated out of 100.
0 - 30
Red
31 - 60
Yellow
61 - 90
Blue
91 - 100
Green
Part II : Practices (Indicator 11-15)
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
0.1-29%
3
Red
30-49%
6
Yellow
50-89%
9
Blue
90-100%
10
Green
Exclusive
Breastfeeding (for
first 6 months)
0.1-11%
3
Red
12-49%
6
Yellow
50-89%
9
Blue
90-100%
10
Green
Median Duration of
Breastfeeding
0.1-17 Months
3
Red
18-20 Months
6
Yellow
21-22 Months
9
Blue
23-24 Months
10
Green
Bottle Feeding
(<6 months)
30-100%
3
Red
5-29%
6
Yellow
3-4%
9
Blue
0.1-2%
10
Green
Complementary
Feeding (6-9 months)
0.1-59%
3
Red
60-79%
6
Yellow
80-94%
9
Blue
95-100%
10
Green
Total Score of all indicators 11 to 15:
Total score of infant and young child feeding practices (indicators 11-15) are calculated out of 50.
0 - 15
Red
16 - 30
Yellow
31 - 45
Blue
46 - 50
Green
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
46 - 90
Yellow
91 - 135
Blue
136 - 150
Green
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