IRIN Asia

"[Bangladesh] decreased the rates of under-nutrition among children under-five from 66 percent in 1990 to 41 percent two decades later. In 2011 the Paris-based NGO, Action Against Hunger (ACF), singled out Bangladesh as a 'success' story for this achievement. Yet without a national authority coordinating nutrition activities, monitoring of NGO nutrition work is 'largely non-existent', said ACF."

"NGO Action Against Hunger (ACF) in a recent report singled out Bangladesh - along with Peru, Brazil, Malawi and Mozambique - as a “success story” in its bid to reduce child under-nutrition in the past 15 years."

"Laurent Campigotto, head of mission of Action Contre La Faim (ACF) in Yangon, said that depending on the capacities of agencies, the amount of food assistance could be different from one place to another."

"According to a joint UN assessment of the camp in June, education for the Rohingya remains a key concern. Over 70 percent of heads of households in the two camps (the other is at Nayapara, further south) have no formal education, while only 18 percent received any primary education, a 2009 Action Against Hunger (ACF) survey cited in the report revealed. Just 3 percent had attended any secondary education (six or more years of education as opposed to five for primary), the assessment found."

"...Ardhiani Dyah Priamsari, a nutrition expert with Action Contre la Faim, a Paris-based aid group, said in several places in South Timor Tengah District, malnutrition reached more than 50 percent."