Under this activity, existing public health interventions, policies and implementation priorities for improving nutrition of adolescent girls in Bangladesh were reviewed and a small-scale exploration of selected urban and rural health care settings of Dhaka was carried out to understand the adolescent nutrition service delivery.
The findings were shared with key stakeholder through consultative meeting held in December 2018 to identify which interventions are working well for improving the nutrition of adolescent girls in the country and could be taken for further scaling up as well as potential barriers for utilization of these interventions.
Significant recommendations given in the consultation include, (1) existing guidelines for adolescent health services and nutrition programs should be revised to include adolescent boys, (2) all types of nutrition interventions should identify and employ innovative ideas to reach out the adolescents who are out of school or at workplaces, and (3) programs should focus more on changing adolescent’s behavior towards nutrition.