Sierra Leone: Getting beyond nutrition as "a women's issue": ODI briefing paper
Author: Richard Mallett and Lisa Denney: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Year: 2014
Resource type: Report
Briefing paper written by the ODI Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium. Key messages include:
- Promoting good child nutrition must go beyond dissemination of infant and young child feeding practices to engage with key influences on mothers’ behaviour.
- ‘Exclusive’ breastfeeding is rarely exclusive, with traditional remedies frequently given to infants.
- Decision-making around food distribution, household finances and when to stop breastfeeding is deeply gendered, influencing the ability of women to act on knowledge about appropriate feeding practices.
- These social conditions that sustain malnutrition are exacerbated during ‘lean seasons’, when there are greater labour demands, compromised sanitation, and limited coping mechanisms.
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Richard Mallett and Lisa Denney: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2014). Sierra Leone: Getting beyond nutrition as "a women's issue": ODI briefing paper. www.ennonline.net/sierraleonewomennutritionodi
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