Bangladesh
[2009-Present]
Malnutrition affects nearly half of all mothers and
children in Bangladesh. And, because many mothers are young and
malnourished during pregnancy, malnutrition is passed on to their
children—making the problem intergenerational. Addressing the life
cycle of malnutrition, with a special focus on maternal, child, and
adolescent malnutrition, is essential to achieving one of the
Millennium Development Goals for Bangladesh, namely, cutting the rate
of poverty and malnutrition in half by 2015.
At the request of USAID, FANTA provides technical
assistance to the Government of Bangladesh and other USAID partners to
strengthen maternal and child nutrition programming in the health
sector. FANTA’s approach has five components:
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Implementing
a multifaceted advocacy strategy to increase attention paid to and
government support of maternal and child nutrition by working with the
Government of Bangladesh, the media, and local and international
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Read the publication Investing in Nutrition Now: A Smart Start for Our Children, Our Future. Estimates of Benefits and Costs of a Comprehensive Program for Nutrition in Bangladesh, 2011–2021. PROFILES and Nutrition Costing Technical Report to learn more about the results of a consultative and consensus-building process.
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Integrating maternal and child nutrition services into government and nongovernment health service programs
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Developing
and deepening innovative social and behavior change communication
(SBCC) in maternal and child nutrition, especially by increasing male
involvement and focusing on adolescent girls
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Supporting
and strengthening the capacity of the Government of Bangladesh and key
local institutions in maternal and child nutrition programming
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Conducting innovative research on food-based supplements to prevent chronic malnutrition
FANTA works with many partners in Bangladesh, including:
- Alive and Thrive
- The Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation
- The Bangladesh National Nutrition Council
- Helen Keller International
- The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- The Institute of Governance Studies at BRAC University
- The Institute of Public Health Nutrition, Government of Bangladesh
- Lutheran Aid to Medicine, Bangladesh
- The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh
- RTM International
- Save the Children/US
- Smiling Sun Franchise
- The Asia Foundation
- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Investing in Nutrition Now: A Smart Start for Our Children, Our Future. Estimates of Benefits and Costs of a Comprehensive Program for Nutrition in Bangladesh, 2011–2021. PROFILES and Nutrition Costing Technical Report (2012)
Acceptability of Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements and Micronutrient Powders among Pregnant and Lactating Women and Infants and Young Children in Bangladesh and Their Perceptions about Malnutrition and Nutrient Supplements (2012)
Dietary
Diversity as a Measure of the Micronutrient Adequacy of Women’s Diets
in Resource-Poor Areas: Results from Five Countries (2010)
 USAID
Country Profile
[http://www.usaid.gov/where-we-work/asia/bangladesh]
UNICEF
Country Profile
[http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/bangladesh_bangladesh_latest.html] WFP
Country Profile
[http://www.wfp.org/countries/bangladesh] Demographic
and Health Surveys Country Survey
[http://www.measuredhs.com/countries/country_main.cfm?ctry_id=1&c=Bangladesh] FAO
Country Food Security Statistics
[http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ess/documents/food_security_statistics/ country_profiles/eng/Bangladesh_E.pdf]
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