The Community Infant & Young Child Feeding Counselling Package: Counselling cards

The UNICEF Community Infant & Young Child Feeding Counselling Package counselling cards were translated, tested, and adapted in Lebanon. It has since been reprinted for the Whole of Syria Nutrition sector with permission.

These 24 counselling cards is part of the UNICEF’s IYCF Counselling Package aimed for use in diverse country contexts, this package of tools guides local adaptation, design, planning and implementation of community based IYCF counselling and support services at scale. It also contains training tools to equip community workers (CWs), using an interactive and experiential adult learning approach, with relevant knowledge and skills on the recommended breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices for children from 0 up to 24 months, enhance their counselling, problem solving, negotiation and communication skills, and prepare them to effectively use the related counselling tools and job aids.