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IFE Core Group members and mandate

IFE Core Group members

Current members of the IFE Core Group are:

Associate member:

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IFE Core Group mandate

Supporting infant and young feeding in emergencies (IFE) is a real challenge. The knowledge and skills of those working in aid operations is crucial, from a policy level right down to those working one-to-one with mothers and children.

An urgent need to develop policy guidance and capacity building on IFE was identified during an international meeting on Infant Feeding in Emergency Situations meeting in Split, Croatia in 1998. What emerged was a collaborative interagency effort concerned with bringing this about. The IFE section of this website reflects the ongoing work of this interagency collaboration, now known as the IFE Core Group, and the contributions of many other individuals and agencies over the years.

The mandate for the IFE Core Group work lies firmly within Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (2003). This work also responds to the Call for Action contained in the Innocenti Declaration 2005 on Infant and Young Child Feeding, welcomed unanimously by the 2006 World Health Assembly.