WFP Executive Board members arrive today
Six members of the Executive Board of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) arrive on a six-day official visit to Bangladesh today, says a press release.
The delegates will inspect WFP field operations and meet with ultra-poor and food-insecure families to see how food and cash assistance have helped in building their skills and assets.
The WFP Executive Board members visiting Bangladesh are from France, India, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Denmark, and the Russian Federation. The delegation will be led by Bérengère Quincy, permanent representative of France at the United Nations in Rome.
“This visit by our Executive Board clearly shows its strong interest in WFP's innovative activities in Bangladesh, which are being implemented in close collaboration with the government”, said WFP Bangladesh Representative Christa Räder.
The WFP team will meet with Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr Md Afsarul Ameen, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, and with other partners and donors.
The delegation will visit north-west Bangladesh to meet people being assisted through WFP's maternal and child nutrition activities, school feeding programme, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction activities, and food security for the ultra-poor project.
Over the past five years, the WFP has supported the government of Bangladesh in implementing maternal and child nutrition, school feeding, cash grant, and asset creation projects.
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