Bangladesh: Protecting and Promoting Food Security and Nutrition for Families and Children in Bangladesh

Reduce Child Mortality

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Delivery Rate

Participating Agencies WFP, UNICEF, FAO

Main Achievements

• Regular screenings being conducted in target areas to identify under-nourished women and children. Courtyard sessions being organized in all communities on prevention of under-nourishment and cooking and feeding practices.
• Outreach centers and government health facilities provided with equipment, materials, medicines and supplementary nutrition to manage under-nutrition in their areas.

Contact Jyoti Dinghra, JP Coordinator
Jyoti.Dhingra@wfp.org

This joint programme will achieve improved food and nutrition security for vulnerable children and their caregivers affected by high food prices. The programme will contribute to Bangladesh’s accelerated achievement of the MDG - 1 hunger reduction target.

Elements include homestead food production, in-kind food transfers, community based management of acute malnutrition, school feeding and gardening, and strengthening food security and nutrition information systems. The objective of the joint programme is to: Contribute to the reduction of under weight prevalence and to reduce the proportion of the population which is food insecure having inadequate calorie and nutrient intake. The programme will protect against the reversal/erosion of past MDG-1 achievements by addressing malnutrition and food insecurity with an emphasis on children and women. Because under-nutrition is also closely linked to under-5 child mortality, the project will also contribute to the achievement of MDG-4 goals.