Project Introduction: USAID-Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity

Project Agreement Number: 50087

Overall Objective: To improve the nutrition and health of children under 5 years of age, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescents (10–18 years old)
Specific Objectives: to improve the nutrition and health of children under 5 years of age, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescents (10–18 years old) in the Zone of Influence (ZoI), which comprises 21 districts in Barishal, Dhaka, and Khulna divisions, and the Zone of Resilience (ZoR), which includes Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban.

Results:  

•  Increased consumption of nutritious, diverse, and safe diets by rural households
• Increased social and economic empowerment of women and adolescents
• Increased adoption of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene behaviors

Major Activities:

• Capacity building of Market Management Committee (MMC) /Business Associations (BA) members: Total-288 (Male-264, Female-24) Market Management Committee (MMC)/Business Associations (BA) members.
• Facilitate to MMC for developing Market Management Committee (MMC) annual work plan: Total-288 (Male-264, Female-24) Market Management Committee (MMC)/Business Associations (BA) members.
• Capacity building of Food vendors (Vegetables, Fruit, Dry Food and Fish): Total-629 (Male-533, Female-96) Food vendors.
• Capacity building of Agro Input Retailers: Total-128 AIR vendors all are male.
• Organize courtyard meeting for demand creation of purchase nutritious, diverse, and safe foods: Total 835 community people(Male-63 , Female-772)
• Establishment of Homestead Nutrition Garden as per joint planning with DAE: 72 Nutrition garden.
• Capacity building of Religious Leaders (Imam, Female Madrasha Teachers & Purohit): Total 502 Imam and 30 Purohit (22 Male and 8 Female)
• Organize meeting with Men’s Influencers at community level to promote long-term benefits of nutritional foods, homestead production, women empowerment, and WASH: 912 Men’s.
• Organize nutrition fair at GCs/SCHOOL  jointly with Innovation  Consulting private Ltd to show casing cooking champion where food handling/hygiene/safety issues will be prioritized: 5358 adolescents (school students, Boy-2248 Girl-3110)
• Day observation : Observance of various national/international days/week/month of different sub-activities with community people-(177 villages, HHs-102394, Total 422165 community people (Male-206562 & Female-215603)
• Organize and facilitate Spouse Meeting with MFI group female members : 338 Spouse (Male-169, Female-169)
• Organize and facilitate Family Meeting with MFI group members family : 676 Family members (Male-310, Female-366)
• District & Upazilla NGO Coordination meeting: Exists NGO representatives
• District and Upazilla Nutrition Coordination Committee Meeting : DNCC & UNCC members
• Demonstrate/display the new technologies in vendor’s shops for optimizing of nutritious food sales by market actors: Total shop-90.
• Audio-visual dramas and music videos at community level, Street drama, Interactive game show and awareness Miking: Community people-(177 villages, HHs-102394, Total 422165 community people (Male-206562 & Female-215603)
• Display and Facilitate provision of information and recommendation on nutritious foods through IEC materials (leaflet, festoon, banner etc.): Banners for Food Vendors-1680pcs, Umbrellas for woman food Vendors-104 , Banners for public spaces-378, Wall Painting (5Key, Food pyramid)-30, Rickshaw/Auto-bike painting-1515.

Project Participants (Direct):

Project Participants (Indirect):

Project Duration: 1 January 2019 to 15 August 2023
Financial partner (Donor): USAID Subcontracted by Abt Associates
Implementing partner (if any): N/A
Project Location/s and number of Field offices:  Project llocation Patuakhali District under Barishal Division and No. 01 field office at Barguna District.

Project Budget: BTD: 9,66,76,913/-
Number of project staffs and volunteers: 25 staffs.

Contact Person:  Md. Rabiul Amin, Technical Director,
Mobile: +880-1712877494, Email: rabiul_bna@amic.org.bd