Bangladesh

*We are currently responding to the threat of COVID-19 in Bangladesh. Find out more about our response here.

Bangladesh remains vulnerable to food shortages with roughly a quarter of the population classed as food insecure and suffers from extremely high rates of malnutrition. Bangladesh performs poorly on a range of inequality indicators and there remain major challenges in terms of gender equality. These challenges include education, jobs, sexual and reproductive health, child marriages, partner violence, and other forms of gender-based violence. The Government of Bangladesh is hosting approximately 855,000 Rohingya people who fled violence in Myanmar in what has become the world’s largest refugee camp.

We have been fighting extreme poverty in Bangladesh since 1972. For over 45 years, we have worked with the most vulnerable people to reduce extreme poverty.