Implementing the BFHI Competency Verification Toolkit: Workshop for Foundational Skills - Workshop 5

Speaker(s): Linda J. Smith

The WHO-UNICEF BFHI Competency Verification Toolkit was released by WHO and UNICEF in August 2020. Since then, numerous countries have successfully used the components of the Toolkit to meet BFHI Step 2 requirements: Ensure that staff have sufficient knowledge, competence and skills to support breastfeeding. This workshop is intended to provide participants a detailed view and practice in meeting the Performance Indicators that implement Foundational Skills; in other words that require a conversation with the pregnant woman or nursing mother. It’s not sufficient that a provider “knows the right information” or can assist a mother to perform a skill; it is equally important that a supportive attitude be demonstrated through use of Foundational (communication / counseling) skills.