Advocating for Paid Maternity Leave and Workplace Lactation Policy Reform and Implementation: Lessons Learned From Indonesia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Autor: Anderson ME; University of Southern California Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Los Angeles, California, USA., McGowan J; University of Southern California Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Los Angeles, California, USA., Escobar-DeMarco J; Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA., Bose S; ELEVATE Nutrition (Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning), Washington, DC, USA., Frongillo EA; Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA., Ferguson L; University of Southern California Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Maternal & child nutrition [Matern Child Nutr] 2024 Dec 11, pp. e13784. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 11.
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13784
Abstrakt: Maternity protection policies are designed to preserve the health of working women and their infants, support optimal infant and young child nutrition through breastfeeding and prevent workplace discrimination against women. The aim of this study was to identify how advocates may be able to effectively advance maternal leave and workplace lactation policies, two key maternity protection policies, and does so through an exploration of advocacy efforts in Indonesia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Vietnam. A desk review of programme and policy documents and 20 key informant interviews with diverse stakeholders explored advocacy efforts in each of the four countries. Thematic analyses of documents and interviews identified key considerations, challenges and success factors within each country context. These lessons can inform maternity protection policy reform efforts more broadly. Study findings show that effective, context-specific advocacy rests on strong partnerships with traditional and nontraditional stakeholders informed by opinion leader research and strengthened through various avenues of consensus-building. Contextual considerations are essential for identifying attainable policy asks and developing an advocacy strategy, with attention to a country's governance structure and availability of funding for social protections. Lastly, advocacy efforts may be most successful by presenting expanded paid maternity leave and breastfeeding-friendly workplaces as parts of a set of social protections with synergistic benefits. These lessons are intended to help inform how policy advocates can better design and implement advocacy approaches for maternity protection and entitlement policies.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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