Bangladesh

Strong economic growth in recent years significantly improved the lives of Bangladeshis, but the the fallout from the Ukraine war has threatened to push millions of people back into extreme poverty.

Rising fuel prices have slowed economic growth and pushed inflation to nearly 10%.

Nearly 35 million Bangladeshis suffer moderate or severe food insecurity.

Compounding these problems, flash flooding in 2022 impacted more than 7.2 million people, leaving 4 million in need of humanitarian assistance.

Bangladesh hosts approximately 900,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled from persecution in Myanmar to live in Cox’s Bazar - the world’s largest refugee camp.

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).

We have been fighting extreme poverty in Bangladesh since 1972. For 50 years, we have worked with the most vulnerable people to reduce extreme poverty.

You can find out a lot more about our work in Bangladesh - including the areas of Climate Change and Flood Resilience - by clicking on the following documents.