Nutrition related Project Information

Nutrition Projects:

Name of the project:	Nutrition Intervention in BRAC- II
Project Status:	running
Target group:	Target Group Beneficiary (Total) Beneficiary (Female) Children Under 5 2433838 0 Adolescent Nutrition 1839191 1839191 Women Nutrition 686865 686865 Man Nutrition 32806 0
Geographical coverage (district)	Bogura, Dinajpur, Jashore, Bagerhat, Sylhet, Kishoreganj, Habiganj, Kushtia, Meherpur, Chuadanga, Manikganj, Chattogram, Barishal, Jhalokati, Bhola, Satkhira, Cumilla, Noakhali, Joypurhat, Rangpur, Sunamganj, Mymensingh, Narsingdi, Sirajganj
Number of sub-district (Upazila):	132
Donor of the project:	N/A
Time period:	2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Other partners (if any):	N/A
Project Objective(s):	To improve nutritional status of women, children and adolescents, particularly to break intergenerational cycles of malnutrition.
Expected outcomes from the project:	• Reduce stunting by 10% (from 43% to 39%) among children under 5 yrs • Reduce anemia by 20% (from 75% to 60%) among children 7 -24 months old • Reduce anemia by 10% (from 43% to 39%) among adolescents.
Expected outputs from the project:	• 7,016,795 children to be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life • 576,905 children to have age-appropriate complementary feeding practices from 7 months to 2 years of age • 813,255 pregnant women and 1143,640 adolescent girls consumed diversified food (with a diet diversity score of 5 and above)
Focal Person:	Name: Dr. Imran Ahmed Chowdhury,   Designation: PM Mobile: +8801708498549,   Email: imran.ac@brac.net

 

Nutrition Projects:

Name of the project:	Child Nutrition and Cognitive Development Services under Income Support Program for the Poorest-JAWTNO project
Project Status:	running
Target group:	Target Group Beneficiary (Total) Beneficiary (Female) Children Under 5 600000 0 Pregnant Women 30000 30000
Geographical coverage (district)	Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Gaibandha, Sherpur
Number of sub-district (Upazila):	33
Donor of the project:	N/A
Time period:	2017-06-01 to 2020-06-30
Other partners (if any):	N/A
Project Objective(s):	• To motivate the local community to ensure maximum attendance and compliance of beneficiaries for availing benefits as designated by the programme; • To ensure provision of services to beneficiaries as per programme objectives and facilitate recording of attendance data from each service delivery point for transparent, quick and verifiable monitoring; • To build capacities of local partners and stakeholders to ensure continuity of services and programme objectives after end of contract.
Expected outcomes from the project:	• Increased nutritional status among under 5 years children • Improved cognitive development of under 5 years children • Improve dietary diversity and nutritional status of pregnant women
Expected outputs from the project:	N/A
Focal Person:	Name: Shaima Arzuman Shahin,   Designation: Programme Manager Mobile: +8801729071848,   Email: shaima.as@brac.net

 

Nutrition Projects:

Name of the project:	Scaling up Mothers@Work programme at readymade garment factories
Project Status:	running
Target group:	Target Group Beneficiary (Total) Beneficiary (Female) Women Nutrition 379837 379837
Geographical coverage (district)	Dhaka, Narayanganj
Number of sub-district (Upazila):	3
Donor of the project:	N/A
Time period:	2018-08-01 to 2020-01-31
Other partners (if any):	N/A
Project Objective(s):	To strengthen maternity rights and protect breastfeeding among young working mothers.
Expected outcomes from the project:	n/a
Expected outputs from the project:	1. Capacity of RMG partners to create enabling environment to implement 7 minimum standards strengthened 2. Bottlenecks and challenges during implementation of 7 minimum standards addressed 3. Monitoring system and supportive supervision of programme established
Focal Person:	Name: Mithun Gupta,   Designation: Sr. Sector Specialist Mobile: +01746178827,   Email: mithun.gupta@brac.net

 

Nutrition Projects:

Name of the project:	School Nutrition Project for Adolescents (SNAP)
Project Status:	running
Target group:	Target Group Beneficiary (Total) Beneficiary (Female) Adolescent Nutrition 26000 1
Geographical coverage (district)	Joypurhat, Sirajganj
Number of sub-district (Upazila):	5
Donor of the project:	N/A
Time period:	2019-04-01 to 2020-07-31
Other partners (if any):	N/A
Project Objective(s):	This project aims to demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of using the secondary school platform to deliver IFA co-packaged with WASH, MHM, and behavior change intervention (BCI) to improve the nutrition and health status of adolescents in selected districts of Bangladesh.
Expected outcomes from the project:	• Improved hemoglobin and iron status and reduced iron deficiency and improved folate status among the adolescent girls • Enhanced health (decreased morbidity) of adolescents • Better school attendance • Government commitment to future scale-up
Expected outputs from the project:	n/a
Focal Person:	Name: Riffat Ara,   Designation: PM Mobile: +8801729070530,   Email: riffat.ara@brac.net

 

Nutrition Projects:

Name of the project:	Targeting & Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (TRAIN)
Project Status:	running
Target group:	Target Group Beneficiary (Total) Beneficiary (Female) Women Nutrition 6300 6300
Geographical coverage (district)	Faridpur, Sherpur, Jamalpur, Kishoreganj, Narsingdi, Khulna, Jhenaidah, Rangpur, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha
Number of sub-district (Upazila):	33
Donor of the project:	N/A
Time period:	2016-05-01 to 2020-04-30
Other partners (if any):	N/A
Project Objective(s):	The goal/objective of TRAIN project is to address the issue of undernutrition among women and children in rural Bangladesh through a combination of nutrition sensitive and specific approaches that are critical for positive nutritional behaviour change. The four components that are offered in an additive manner across the intervention arms are (1) micro-credit program, DABI, offered to women, (2) comprehensive behaviour change communications (BCC) related to health and nutrition, (3) nutrition-sensitive agricultural intervention focused on improving agricultural income and production diversity and (4) gender sensitization and community mobilization.
Expected outcomes from the project:	• Women’s dietary diversity • Child dietary diversity and other IYCF practices • Anthropometry (mean BMI for women, mean HAZ and WHZ, stunting and wasting for children)
Expected outputs from the project:
Focal Person:	Name: Md. Mamun Miah,   Designation: Senior Sector Specialist. Mobile: 01730349541,   Email: mamun.miah@brac.net