Annual Country Report 2017: Bangladesh. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2020

Annual Country Report 2017: Bangladesh. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2017.

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80 p.

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WFP Bangladesh transitioned to the new Country Strategic Plan (CSP) as of 1 April 2017. The CSP includes capacity strengthening to government counterparts, direct provision of food assistance in emergencies and activities aimed at evidence creation. WFP’s capacity augmentation and capacity strengthening work focuses on nutrition-sensitive social safety net programmes, communications on improved diets, post-harvest rice fortification and school feeding. These interventions aim to improve food security and nutrition indicators, contributing to nationally set targets and to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – Zero Hunger. Direct operations include multi-faceted assistance in Cox’s Bazar to refugees from Rakhine State of Myanmar and vulnerable host communities; assistance packages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and as part of a consortium in the southwest; and food assistance in emergencies, as in the cases of Cyclone Mora and widespread flooding in June and August 2017. WFP pilots innovative approaches for climate-related shock resilience, such as micro-insurance and forecast-based financing. WFP’s work in Bangladesh also contributes to SDG 4 (Quality Education) through the delivery of school meals and capacity strengthening for the Government’s school feeding programme, and SDG 5 (Gender Equality), with some interventions targeting women as primary beneficiaries and others including gender equality and empowerment of women considerations. During 2017, WFP Bangladesh reached 1,983,700 direct beneficiaries, including 1,030,993 (52 percent) women and 952,707 (48 percent) men.

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