Helping adolescent girls in Bangladesh reach their full potential
2016 - 2020
Together with our partners in Bangladesh, we help adolescents achieve their potential with an effective, scalable program to combat iron deficiency, improve nutrition, and support related interventions.
Adolescent girls can thrive with the right nutrition.
Many factors can reduce the educational achievement and future wage-earning potential of adolescents, including:
The Government of Bangladesh has recently prioritized adolescent health and nutrition with a clear direction to provide iron-folic acid supplementation to adolescents. It is in the process of developing an operational guideline for implementation of the package of nutrition intervention for adolescents. However, no implementation plan has yet been put in place.
Scaling up adolescent nutrition nationwide.
Folate/Folic Acid
Iron
Nutrition International provides financial and technical support for an adolescent-focused project to demonstrate the feasibility of a nationwide roll-out of the iron-folic acid supplementation policy.
We propose a large-scale demonstration project that used secondary schools to deliver an integrated package of interventions for adolescents, which include:
The Impact
Improved health status and nutrition education
With our partners in Bangladesh, we're working with schools to deliver critical nutrition interventions to adolescents, and building evidence on how to scale the program nationwide to ensure adolescents across the country have access to better nutrition.
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