The Regional Office organized the first regional breastfeeding counselling training course to build regional capacity for training in breastfeeding counselling, creating a pool of facilitators to assist countries in their breastfeeding training activities.
This training activity was organized to meet the increasing need for activities promoting good breastfeeding practices, given the low rate of exclusive breastfeeding in countries in the Region.
The training had the objective to build regional capacity for training in breastfeeding counselling, creating a pool of facilitators to assist countries in their breastfeeding training activities.
Although breastfeeding counselling is an essential component of the Integrated Management of Child Health (IMCI) package, experience has showed that there is a need to further strengthen the breastfeeding counselling skills of IMCI facilitators and supervisors, through a specific breastfeeding counselling course.
The training course consisted of two parts.
- A breastfeeding counselling training course for a team of regional consultants to acquire facilitation skills on training in breastfeeding counselling (Regional Master Trainers of IMCI), from 15 to 20 March 2003.
- A breastfeeding counselling training course for the consultants to practise skills on the organization and conduct of the course, and to train master IMCI facilitators from Egypt in breastfeeding counselling skills from 22 to 27 March 2003.
The two courses were conducted in Arabic as a natural medium for counselling Egyptian breastfeeding mothers. They included: a) classroom sessions, where the technical content of the course was discussed through presentations, group work, role plays, group discussions, and video sessions; and b) clinical sessions both in maternity and paediatric outpatient wards, during which the participants practised not only the breastfeeding counselling skills but also complementary feeding counselling skills in an outpatient department, using the Egypt adapted feeding recommendations from the IMCI package.
Participants in the two courses welcomed this type of training and agreed on the need for IMCI facilitators to master breastfeeding counselling skills in order to help strengthen health providers knowledge of breastfeeding and counselling skills during the IMCI case management training and while managing children and counselling caretakers in the field.
Related links
Counselling on infant and young child feeding: training materials
Key family practices on child health care: exclusive breastfeeding
The Regional Office organized the first regional breastfeeding counselling training course to build regional capacity for training in breastfeeding counselling, creating a pool of facilitators to assist countries in their breastfeeding training activities.
This training activity was organized to meet the increasing need for activities promoting good breastfeeding practices, given the low rate of exclusive breastfeeding in countries in the Region.
The training had the objective to build regional capacity for training in breastfeeding counselling, creating a pool of facilitators to assist countries in their breastfeeding training activities.
Although breastfeeding counselling is an essential component of the Integrated Management of Child Health (IMCI) package, experience has showed that there is a need to further strengthen the breastfeeding counselling skills of IMCI facilitators and supervisors, through a specific breastfeeding counselling course.
The training course consisted of two parts.
- A breastfeeding counselling training course for a team of regional consultants to acquire facilitation skills on training in breastfeeding counselling (Regional Master Trainers of IMCI), from 15 to 20 March 2003.
- A breastfeeding counselling training course for the consultants to practise skills on the organization and conduct of the course, and to train master IMCI facilitators from Egypt in breastfeeding counselling skills from 22 to 27 March 2003.
The two courses were conducted in Arabic as a natural medium for counselling Egyptian breastfeeding mothers. They included: a) classroom sessions, where the technical content of the course was discussed through presentations, group work, role plays, group discussions, and video sessions; and b) clinical sessions both in maternity and paediatric outpatient wards, during which the participants practised not only the breastfeeding counselling skills but also complementary feeding counselling skills in an outpatient department, using the Egypt adapted feeding recommendations from the IMCI package.
Participants in the two courses welcomed this type of training and agreed on the need for IMCI facilitators to master breastfeeding counselling skills in order to help strengthen health providers knowledge of breastfeeding and counselling skills during the IMCI case management training and while managing children and counselling caretakers in the field.
Related links
Counselling on infant and young child feeding: training materials
Key family practices on child health care: exclusive breastfeeding
