Breastfeeding: A key to Sustainable Development

The theme of this year's World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated every year during the first week in August, is "Breastfeeding: A Key to Sustainable Development".  It is dedicated to demonstrate how breastfeeding, among many other actions, can support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and proposing actions on how to improve policies and programs for its protection, promotion and support.

Many leaders in the public and private sector are beginning to recognize that the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding are an investment not only in health but also in economic and social development. Whether maintaining robust breastfeeding rates or seeking solutions to improve breastfeeding practices, the efforts of individual nations will be strengthened by cooperation through global cooperation, and will ultimately benefit not only mothers and infants, but all people and our planet.

Technical materials

• pdf Technical brief. WBW2016. Breastfeeding: A Key to Sustainable Development

Advocacy materials

• Posters

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• Social media cards
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Related links

• World Breastfeeding Week (WHO)
• World Breastfeeding Week (UNICEF)
• World Breastfeeding Week (WABA)
• World Alliance for Breastfeeding in Action (WABA)
• IBFAN
• Sustainable Development Goals (UN)

Previous World Breastfeeding Weeks:

• 2015. Breastfeeding and work: let´s make it work!
• 2014. Breastfeeding in the 21st century: Anytime, anyplace
• 2013. Breastfeeding support: close to mothers
• 2012. Understanding the past, planning the future