1. Sharing Global Action Beena Bhatt,IBFAN Asia & BPNI, India http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org

2. WBTi – Action so far Initiated in 51countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the year 2008-09. 16 more countries have been included in the process recently in the Arab world & Africa, Burkina Faso. 28 country reports are uploaded on the website, process is on in remaining countries The average score on all the 15 indicators for the 28 countries is 82.8/150, ranging from 124.5 for Sri Lanka and 121.5 for Malawi to a low of 32.5 for Taiwan.

3. World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi ) Worldwide WBTi process has been completed, Report & finding uploaded on the website & shared In process

4. Coming together Government agencies Breastfeeding groups Civil society groups, Professional organizations, UN agencies, Media Others 237 stakeholders/partners in 29 countries

5. WBTi Qualitative assessment in 28 countries S. No.IndicatorAverage score 6National Policy Program and Coordination7 7BFHI5.3 8Implementation of the Code7.8 9Maternity Protection4.6 10Health and Nutrition Care5.9 11Mother Support and Community Outreach5.4 12Information Support6.4 13Infant feeding and HIV4.7 14Infant feeding during Emergencies2.7 15Monitoring and Evaluation5.9

6. WBTi Quantitative assessment in 28 countries IndicatorAverage Score (out of 10) 1. Percentage of babies breastfed with in one hour of birth 9 2. Percentage of babies 0<6 months of age exclusively breastfed in the last 24 hours 7.5 3. Babies are breastfed for a median duration of how many months 9 4. Percentage of breastfed babies less than 6 months old receiving other foods or drink from bottles 3 5. Percentage of breastfed babies receiving complementary foods at 6-9monthsof age 6.5

7. WBTi Training So Far……

8. Year 2008

9. WBTi International Orientation Training - Geneva

10. WBTi training in IBFAN Latin America, Costa Rica

11. WBTi Training Workshop in South Asia, New Delhi

12. WBTi Training Workshop Southeast and East Asia (Bangkok)

13. WBTi Training Workshop Africa

14. Year 2009

15. WBTi Training Workshop Africa, Burkina Faso

16. WBTi Training Workshop Arab Countries, Al-Ain (UAE)

17. Conclusions The World Breastfeeding Trends initiative Acts as a lens to highlight the gaps in policies and planning on IYCF Helps initiating action at national level to improve the policies and programmes. It has started showing some positive impacts and hopefully will continue to do so in future.

18. Thank You