The WASH Sector Coordinator – and in coordination with other WASH sector team, and WASH sector stakeholders to ensure the essential information systems and datasets needed to support operational coordination, sectoral advocacy, and strategic decision-making are functional and continually refined.
The Emergency Specialist stablishes and implements country office emergency preparedness and response including aspects of Disaster Risk Reduction. Responsible for the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the emergency interventions to ensure the survival and well-being of children and mothers, and the affected communities in an emergency situation as well as provide guidance in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Child Protection Sub-Sector Coordinator (P4) will lead, coordinate, and provide technical support to the child protection response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has achieved admirable progress in improving the nutrition status of its population, with child stunting having reduced from 41.3% in 2011 to 31% in 2017/2018 and wasting having reduced from 15.6% to 8.4%. Moreover, the consumption of a Minimum Acceptable Diet (MAD) has increased from 21.2% to 34.1%, and Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) from 24.25% to 37.5% among children during the same period. Largely accountable for this progress is the success Bangladesh has had in mainstreaming nutrition into national policy and action plans; The National Nutrition Policy has been translated into the country’s Second National Plan of Action on Nutrition (NPAN2) 2016-2025, nutrition has been mainstreamed as a key component of food systems planning in the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (NFNSP) 2020. However, global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the rising prevalence of extreme weather events due to climate change leading to steep food price increases threaten to seriously impact nutrition outcomes in Bangladesh due to increased pressure on access to nutritious diets and adequate essential services. UNICEF supports the Government of Bangladesh in attaining its nutrition goals and has, as such, developed its Country Program 2022-2026 in line with the Government’s own vision for development. It brings with the renewed focus on nutrition priorities for Bangladesh, in particular in providing technical assistance and generating evidence for the development of an integrated multi-sectoral Early Childhood Care and Development approach, for the expansion of essential nutrition services including Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) and Low Birth-Weight (LBW) prevention from health facilities into the communities, for strengthened urban service delivery, for expanded nutrition education for adolescents, and for improved accountability and financing through setting up a financial tracking system for nutrition.
The Social & Behavior Change Officer (S&BC Officer) provides technical and operational support for S&BC initiatives and activities to promote community engagement and participation, and measurable behavioral and social change and mobilization.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the supervisor, Team Lead Health, the Programme Assistant supports the respective section by carrying out a range of procedural, administrative, and operational tasks, to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring timely and effective delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations.
The WASH Sector Coordinator – and in coordination with other WASH sector team, and WASH sector stakeholders to ensure the essential information systems and datasets needed to support operational coordination, sectoral advocacy, and strategic decision-making are functional and continually refined.
The Emergency Specialist stablishes and implements country office emergency preparedness and response including aspects of Disaster Risk Reduction. Responsible for the development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the emergency interventions to ensure the survival and well-being of children and mothers, and the affected communities in an emergency situation as well as provide guidance in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Child Protection Sub-Sector Coordinator (P4) will lead, coordinate, and provide technical support to the child protection response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has achieved admirable progress in improving the nutrition status of its population, with child stunting having reduced from 41.3% in 2011 to 31% in 2017/2018 and wasting having reduced from 15.6% to 8.4%. Moreover, the consumption of a Minimum Acceptable Diet (MAD) has increased from 21.2% to 34.1%, and Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) from 24.25% to 37.5% among children during the same period. Largely accountable for this progress is the success Bangladesh has had in mainstreaming nutrition into national policy and action plans; The National Nutrition Policy has been translated into the country’s Second National Plan of Action on Nutrition (NPAN2) 2016-2025, nutrition has been mainstreamed as a key component of food systems planning in the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (NFNSP) 2020. However, global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the rising prevalence of extreme weather events due to climate change leading to steep food price increases threaten to seriously impact nutrition outcomes in Bangladesh due to increased pressure on access to nutritious diets and adequate essential services. UNICEF supports the Government of Bangladesh in attaining its nutrition goals and has, as such, developed its Country Program 2022-2026 in line with the Government’s own vision for development. It brings with the renewed focus on nutrition priorities for Bangladesh, in particular in providing technical assistance and generating evidence for the development of an integrated multi-sectoral Early Childhood Care and Development approach, for the expansion of essential nutrition services including Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) and Low Birth-Weight (LBW) prevention from health facilities into the communities, for strengthened urban service delivery, for expanded nutrition education for adolescents, and for improved accountability and financing through setting up a financial tracking system for nutrition.
The Social & Behavior Change Officer (S&BC Officer) provides technical and operational support for S&BC initiatives and activities to promote community engagement and participation, and measurable behavioral and social change and mobilization.
Under the close supervision and guidance of the supervisor, Team Lead Health, the Programme Assistant supports the respective section by carrying out a range of procedural, administrative, and operational tasks, to help develop, implement and monitor their country programme, ensuring timely and effective delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations.
