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February 20-21, 2017 Berlin, Germany

International Congress on

Nutrition & Health

Volume 7 Issue 1 (Suppl)

J Nutr Food Sci

ISSN:2155-9600 JNFS, an open access journal

Nutrition & Health 2017

February 20-21, 2017 Berlin, Germany

Creating supportive environment through capacity building is an effective model to increase nutritional

behavior

Mohammad Hafijul Islam

CARE, Bangladesh

tatement of the Problem: In Bangladesh nutrition indicators are showing very poor among children and reproductive age (15-49)

women. Total 36% (BDHS 2014) children <2 years of age is stunted, 14% (BDHS 2014) are wasted and in Sunamganj 49.5% (BDHS

2011) are suffering anemia, on the other hand total 42% at reproductive age women (ever married) are anemic. Half of total adolescents

are stunted, 43% are anemic and among them one third are forced to marry before her 18th birth anniversary. The situation is worst

in rural areas in Bangladesh, especially in haor (water logged) areas. The reason behind above context are many, e.g. poverty, low

literacy rate, ignorance, women status in family and society, early marriage, food intake behavior, density of child birth and lack of

access to service and availability of services. The nutrition at the center project of CARE Bangladesh is implementing its project at the

two sub-district of Sunamganj that is practically water logged for half of the year. The aim of the project is to improve anemia among

reproductive age women and stunting and anemia among children <2 years of age. One of the key strategies is building capacity of

service providers, key community people, community support group members and representatives from local government. As a

result of providing training, orientation and continuing on the job training on Maternal Infant and young child Nutrition (MIYCN),

a supportive environment is created. The skills personnel are now providing and delivery message through various channel among the

targeted population, e.g. counseling at EPI center, satellite clinic, Community Clinic, while visits household level. Relevant days are

observed with importance (World Breastfeeding day, World Health Day and Safe Motherhood Day, etc.), and Iron Folic Acid (IFA)

campaign along with awareness creation on nutritional behavior among adolescents girls at school is going on.

J Nutr Food Sci 2017, 7:1 (Suppl)