Infants' right to food Assessing where countries stand

Name: Ugyen Zangmo

Country: Bhutan

Nutritional status

1988 (n=3273) 1999 (n =2981) 2008 (n=2376)

NCHS NCHS WHO Standard

Wasting4.1% 2.6% 4.6%

Stunting

56.1% 40% 37.0%

Underweight37.9% 18.7% 11.1%

Inappropriate promotion of baby foods

• No advertisement in media (shops)

• Samples and gifts in the hospitals, early 1990s (not any more)

• Companies trying to set up the shelves of the shops

• Giving incentives to shops for keeping their product at the eye level.

IYCF status

Indicators 2008

Early initiation of Breastfeeding 81.5%

Exclusive breastfeeding 10.4%

Median duration of breastfeeding 23 months

Bottle feeding 5.8%

Complementary feeding 20.8%

WBTi assessment

• Established baseline data on IYCF

• IYCF policy and strategy

• Operational plan for five years

• 10th plan, one of the major focus

Conflict of Interest

• Maternity leave for the mothers• Private/government• Commercial formulas and complementary

foods available

Maternity Benefits

• 3 months maternity leave

• 5 working days paternity leave

• Nursing break of one hour a day

• No Creches at work places

• No wage compensation for the non-formal sectors

• No practices of milk storage