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This module and associated resources are intended to support the design and implementation of integrated nutrition and responsive care and early learning activities for this age group. These provide program managers and implementers a brief overview of key considerations for infant feeding and care needs at 9 up to 12 months of age; guidance on healthy growth and development, including key developmental milestones to watch for; common caregiver challenges; and illustrative activities to support integrated, tailored, age-specific infant feeding, responsive care, and early learning activities during counseling and group sessions.

Download Module 3: Nine Up to Twelve Months of Age (PDF, 1.87 MB)

See the Program Design and Implementation Guide for more information on this module and the prerequisites for its use. Additional resources to support programming for this age and stage can be found below.

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Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course: Trainer’s Guide, 2nd edition
Training Material published by WHO in
The Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course includes this trainer’s guide, a director's guide and participant’s manual.
Counselling To Improve Maternal Nutrition: Considerations for Programming with Quality, Equity and Scale
Technical Report published by UNICEF in
This program brief describes a set of approaches to strengthen maternal nutrition counseling.
Indicators for Measuring Responsive Care and Early Learning Activities
Indicator Guide published by WHO in
The Nurturing Care Framework offers national governments a road map for strategic action to strengthen public policies, programs, and services, to ensure children’s good health and nutrition, protect them from threats, support responsive care, and promote opportunities for early learning.
Prioriser les comportements nutritionnels multisectoriels
Toolkit published by USAID Advancing Nutrition in
La conception d’un CSC de haute qualité nécessite plusieurs étapes, à commencer par la hiérarchisation des comportements, une étape qui garantit une utilisation efficace des ressources et un impact durable.
Prioritizing Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Behaviors
Toolkit published by USAID Advancing Nutrition in
This tool helps nutrition program planners and implementers achieve effective social and behavior change by sharpening their focus on fewer behaviors.
Program Guidance on Engaging Family Members
Guideline/Guidance published by USAID Advancing Nutrition in
This guidance translates research findings into practical recommendations for interventions that effectively engage family members in the care and feeding of children.
Guide du programme : Impliquer les membres de la famille dans l’amélioration de la nutrition maternelle et infantile
Guideline/Guidance published by USAID Advancing Nutrition in
Le présent guide traduit les résultats de la recherche en recommandations pratiques pour des interventions qui impliquent effcacement les membres de la famille dans les soins et l’alimentation des enfants.
Nurturing Care for Children Living in Humanitarian Settings
Reference Material published by Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development in
This thematic brief sheds light on the need to better ensure children in humanitarian settings receive nurturing care.