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WFP and Bangladesh Sign agreement to Strengthen National Statistics in SDG Monitoring

Dhaka, Bangladesh The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) have marked a significant milestone in their longstanding partnership with the launch of a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The agreement aims to mobilize ‘Data for Life’ and strengthen official statistics, focusing on achieving Zero Hunger and supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2 and 17.

Food security still not for all | The Daily Star

Although Bangladesh achieved food security and improved access to food, eight percent of the households where the urban poor live still go to sleep with empty stomachs, reveals a government survey. The first-ever study of its kind also found people of around 12 percent of the poor urban households had no food in their house. The Urban Socioeconomic Assessment Survey (USAS) 2019 was conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics from December 8 to 26 last year. There was not enough food at over 21 percent of the households surveyed and 20.64 percent of the respondents could not eat what they preferred, said the survey released in the last week of November.

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