UNICEF regional perspectives on complementary feeding

Introduction 

Effective and appropriate complementary feeding strategies are integral to meeting global nutrition targets. Such strategies must consider persistent inequalities by location, age, sex, education and wealth at regional, national and sub-national levels and which may be exacerbated by urban–rural divides, conflict and/or climate fragility. To support the dissemination, adoption and adaptation of UNICEF’s complementary feeding programming guidance at the regional and country level, this article presents experiences from each UNICEF global region, framed alongside a series of landscape analyses compiled by each regional office.