Baby Friendly Spaces

Author(s)
De Brabandere, A., David, A. and Dozio, E.
Publication language
English
Pages
192pp
Date published
01 Dec 2014
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Children & youth
Organisations
Action Against Hunger

The Baby Friendly Spaces (BFS) is a model of intervention for a holistic program to support pregnant, lactating women and their children in emergency situations. Baby Friendly Spaces do not only focus on breastfeeding and the child. The goal of the BFS is a holistic psychosocial program that aims at providing comprehensive support to children and their caregivers who are facing emergency situations.

This documents aims to explain WHy and HoW to implement Baby Friendly Spaces. The manual demonstrates why the implementation of BFS is crucial in emergency situations and provides a summary of basic information, practical advice and refers to other documents for further information.