Bangladesh

Bangladesh is due to graduate from the UN’s Least Developed Countries list by 2026 and has shown remarkable progress in reducing poverty rates (falling from 44% in 1991 to 20.5% in 2019) and growing its economy at impressive rates (6.9% annually between 2011 and 2019). However, the country now faces additional challenges to that progress due largely to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine. While it has also made progress towards ending hunger, an estimated 36% of children under five are stunted (low height for age due to malnutrition) and 12% of children suffer acute malnutrition and are at increased risk of mortality.

Concern Worldwide Bangladesh’s Country Strategic Plan 2022- 2026 aims to contribute to bringing sustainable, positive changes in the lives of people living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. We will achieve this through working on five particular pillars – ensuring sustained change from our programmes (predominantly in the health, nutrition and livelihoods sectors); climate change; humanitarian action; working through partnership; and equality, diversity and inclusion.

We deliver programmes following five strategic objectives, aligned with the Government priorities outlined in the 8th Five Year Plan of the Government and with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Details of Concern's projects in Bangladesh can be found in the below document.