Breastfeeding Women and Work:
from Human Rights to Creative Solutions.
WABA International Workshop
Day 4, Thursday, June 4
Session 7
Mother/Baby-Friendly Environments
I. Creating the Environment
- Elements of Mother/Baby Friendly Environments
- Breastfeeding Corners
- Building/Space Design (Architects, City Planners)
- Transportation (Toyota)
II. Case Studies of mother-baby friendly environments
- Jakarta Airport/ factory workers
Session 8
Mother/Baby-Friendly Environments
I. Support Systems for Working Women
II. Case Studies of different types of support systems:
- CONAPLAM, Latin America (indigenous women)
- SINAN, Swaziland (healers & factory support)
- LLLI, USA (mother-to-mother and peer group support)
Male Support
How can we increase the father's
involvement in child care?
Click here to read his paper
Ted Greiner, PhD
Session 9
Networking and Tools for Advocacy
I. Reaching Out
WABA tools and advocacy materials (Susan Siew overview/facilitator)
II. Forging New Partnerships
- Trade union leader
- Representative from a women's organisation
- An employer
- Media representative
Session 10
Working Groups
Designing Strategies to Enable Working Women to Breastfeed
a) Formal sector (facilitated by Alison Linnecar & Ted Greiner)
b) Non-formal sector (facilitated by Penny Van Esterik and Ines Fernandez)
Day 5, Thursday, June 5
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