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Achieving sustainability and scalability of a large-scale prenatal cash and food transfer intervention in Bangladesh
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Increasing production diversity and diet quality: Evidence from Bangladesh
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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes.
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IFPRI is committed to providing policy-relevant research for better nutrition and livelihoods.
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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.
Aklima Parvin is a Senior Project Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in Dhaka. She has more than 19 years of program management experience in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating large-scale, complex, integrated nutrition-sensitive agriculture and social protection projects in Bangladesh. She has worked on nutrition and social protection issues under an experimental study jointly conducted by IFPRI and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since 2016, Parvin has been providing overall leadership and technical direction under the Ministry of Agriculture’s Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) pilot project. She currently supports the redesigning and launching of Joint Interventions to Improve Birth Outcomes and Nutrition (Jibon) program in close collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs and WFP. Before coming to IFPRI, Parvin worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization, WFP, Bangladesh Breastfeeding Foundation, and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR’B). She received a master’s degree in Public Health from North South University and a master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Dhaka University.
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