International Baby Food Action Network

Founded in 1979, the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) is a global network consisting of 273 groups in 168 countries. Member groups include consumer organisations, health workers associations, parents' groups and diversity of organizations in the social justice movement. The network has extensive experience working on corporate accountability issues in the infant and young child feeding arena, helping bridge nutrition and food issues.

It specializes in assisting governments in setting up legally binding mechanisms that regulate marketing practices of infant food manufacturers and in monitoring these practices against the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions, highlighting infant feeding issues in the human rights discourse, policy-making and programming, and assessing and reporting of the national implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding by doing assessment of policies and programs using the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) tool.