The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food has jointly concluded a three-day training and workshop for ministry officials.
In a press release on Tuesday, FAO said that the training programme, which took off on November 28 in Dhaka, facilitated a workshop for building a sector-wide pool of expert nutrition trainers titled “Training for Trainers Workshop for officials of Bangladesh Institute of Research and Training on Applied Nutrition (BIRTAN) for capacity strengthening of officers at sub-national level on FNS Policy Frameworks.”
At the same time, the workshop aimed at capacitating the officials of the BIRTAN to impart further training to strengthen the capacity of government officials across sectors at district and upazila levels, the release added.
It was held under the patronage of the Bangladesh Institute for Research and Training in Applied Nutrition (BIRTAN), Ministry of Agriculture and Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC), the EU and USAID funded ‘Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH) project.
“There is no alternative in disseminating vital nutrition information by spearheading mass awareness campaigns at the sub-national level”, said Kamalaranjan Das, additional secretary at Ministry of Agriculture, while addressing the concluding ceremony of the training as chief guest.
Md Shahiduzzaman Faruki- director general (additional secretary) of Food Planning and Monitoring Unit, chaired the event.
Among others, Dr Khalilur Rahman, director general of Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC) and Abdul Wadud, additional secretary and executive director BIRTAN, attended the event as special guests.
Facilitators and officials from FAO, FPMU, BIRTAN, as well as staffs from USAID and EU-funded FAO’s MUCH project were also present, the release added.
