Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services: the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative: monitoring manual

Overview

This document provides countries with various tools and strategies for monitoring adherence to the Ten Steps at the internal facility, external oversight and national levels. It is intended to guide governments and key stakeholders in planning BFHI monitoring activities, including data collection and analysis.

The primary intended audience includes:

• quality improvement/quality assurance teams within maternity care facilities
• regional or administrative entities responsible for monitoring and overseeing the quality of perinatal care
• policy- and decision-makers working at national governments, such as public health officials or programme managers/coordinators in the Ministry of Health (MoH)