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National SUN Civil Society Alliances Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August, 2013)
The 2013 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) theme, ‘Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers’, highlighted the importance of breastfeeding peer counselling. This year, SUN Civil Society Alliances (CSAs) from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda supported coordinated WBW actions and activities.
September 13, 2013 - Last update: July 4, 2022
The 2013 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) theme, ‘BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT: CLOSE TO MOTHERS,’ highlighted the importance of breastfeeding peer counselling. This year, SUN Civil Society Alliances (CSAs) from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia supported coordinated WBW actions and activities.
These civil society events highlighted the importance of promoting optimal breastfeeding practices and creating a supportive policy environment for breastfeeding mothers as a shared responsibility between the government with all its sectoral offices, the media, private sector, civil society organizations and all development partners.
- Bangladesh – The CSA for SUN Bangladesh worked with the Voluntary Association for Rural Development, a local NGO and CSA Bangladesh member, to organize a WBW celebration event on August 1 in Sylhet Division. The event was attended by high-level divisional government officials and representatives from across sectors, as well as members of the CSA for SUN Bangladesh, UN REACH, academia and others. Learn more.
- Ethiopia – The Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition, Ethiopia’s SUN CSA, – contributed to an event held at Yekatit 12 Hospital in Addis Ababa. Save the Children, representing the ECSC, joined the Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Ethiopian Pediatrics Society and other local and international organizations to mark World Breastfeeding Week. Learn more.
- Sierra Leone – As part of its support to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in commemoration of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), the CSP in Sierra Leone supported community sensitization activities, the national launch of WBW as well as interactive radio discussions. Learn more.
- Tanzania
–– The Partnership for Nutrition in Tanzania (PANITA) supported the Ministry of Health and other partners to organize activities at the national, regional and districts levels to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. Learn more. - Uganda – The Uganda Civil Society Coalition on Scaling up Nutrition (UCCO-SUN) platform worked with a number of partners to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. The theme for Tanzania’s breastfeeding week was: “Strengthening community support for optimal breastfeeding towards a healthy, well-nourished and HIV-free generation” Learn more.
- Zambia – The Zambia Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN Alliance) organized two radio programs in collaboration with World Vision’s Child Health Now Campaign and the National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC). These programmes aimed to highlight the importance of breastfeeding and establishing the environments to enable this essential practice – as major elements to addressing malnutrition. Learn more.
