Bangladesh

This low-lying country is extremely vulnerable to climate disasters and hosts a large number of refugees from neighbouring countries.
Despite the complex humanitarian situation, we continue to provide life-saving nutrition programmes in the Southeast Asian country.
Since August 2017, worsening violence in Rakhine State has forced more than 650,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh. The local government in Rakhine State has imposed regulations and restrictions on movement on humanitarian agencies, making it difficult to assess the current needs of the local population.
Myanmar is also among the countries with the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Southeast Asia.
Action Against Hunger's programmes reached over 77,000 people in 2020.
Myanmar has a population of 54 million people.
Almost 30% of children under five in Myanmar suffer from malnutrition.
Action Against Hunger has been working in Myanmar since 1994. Our projects involve water, sanitation and hygiene, food security and livelihoods, nutrition and mental health support programmes.
In 2020, our programmes included:
This low-lying country is extremely vulnerable to climate disasters and hosts a large number of refugees from neighbouring countries.
Although food security is improving, the world’s largest democracy still has a lot to do to tackle its high malnutrition levels.
Nepal suffers from a range of development and humanitarian challenges – from endemic poverty to widespread undernutrition.