National Nutrition Policy 2015.

In order to eliminate malnutrition and ensuring human development, the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has elaborated the National Nutrition Policy in 2015. It is a multisectoral policy that aims to attaining healthy and productive lives through gaining expected nutrition.
The goal of the national nutrition policy is to improve the nutritional status of the people, especially disadvantaged groups, including mothers, adolescent girls and children, to prevent and control malnutrition and accelerate national development through raising the standard of living.
The policy indentified five strategic objectives including: (i) improve the nutritional status of all citizens, including children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers, (ii) ensuring availability of adequate, diversified and quality safe food and promote healthy feeding practices, (iii) strengthen nutrition-specific, or direct nutrition, interventions, (iv) strengthen nutrition-sensitive, or indirect nutrition interventions, (v) strengthen multisectoral programmes and increase coordination among sectors to ensure improved nutrition.
In order to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, the government will encourage food-based strategies to achieve food variety, emphasizing the agricultural sector, including fisheries and livestock. In addition, it will create awareness among rural and rural and urban people through the provision of information on the importance of food diversity, along with increasing the availability of food.
Strategies to be taken up for achieving food diversity and emphasizing the important role of agricultural sector are: (i) encourage coordination homestead gardening and small-scale livestock and poultry rearing, at family level or collectively, to increase the availability of diverse, safe and nutrition food, (ii) encourage local production and indigenous varieties of crops, fruits and vegetables to promote biodiversity and uninterrupted food diversity, (iii) encourage and accelerate clean and hygienic food preparation practices so that safe and quality food consumption in increased and nutrition quality in food, (iv) ensuring supply of the required amount of animal protein through the promotion of the cultivation of small fish such as mola, dhela and puti in homestead water bodies to meet the nutritional needs of rural families, (v) promote the consumption of adequate quantities of nutrition food to prevent malnutrition in lactating mothers and ensure appropriate care to children, (vi) extend and strengthen nutrition education in educational institutions, (vii) scale up nutrition-specific or direct programmes for marginalized persons in urban slums and people in hard reach locations, (viii) encourage investment in nutrition-sensitive agriculture to produce fruits, vegetables chicken, fish products, milk and meat, (ix) accelerate research activities to increase production of non-cereal agricultural products, such as pulses, fruits and vegetables.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the government plans to adapt food security, employment and diseases management strategies in line with the situation related to climate change in Bangladesh.
In the context of governance, the government will strengthen the national nutrition council, with the honourable prime minister as the chair to review the nutrition situation of the country and implement/coordinate multisectoral programmes.