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Bangladesh

WFP Bangladesh Country Brief, April 2026

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• 1.2 million people received WFP’s assistance, including 1.1 million Rohingya refugees.

• Through USDA-funded school feeding programme, 25,000 Bangladeshi children across 149 government primary schools received nutritious daily snacks.

• With WFP’s technical support, 1.61 million beneficiaries of the Mother and Child Benefit social safety net received monthly payments.

• WFP participated in discussions on the expansion of the national School Feeding programme, which aims to reach 6.64 million children in 44,901 schools across 349 subdistricts from July 2026 to June 2029.