Tk 13.79 cr EU-UNFPA aid for health sector

Mustaque Ahmed, Joint Secretary, ERD, and Suneeta Mukherjee, UNFPA Representative to Bangladesh, signed an agreement on financial assistance for a health project yesterday.

An agreement to this effect was signed between the government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) here yesterday.

Mustaque Ahmed, Joint Secretary, ERD, and Ms Suneeta Mukherjee, UNFPA Representative to Bangladesh, signed the documents on behalf of their respective sides. Senior officials from ERD, UNFPA, EC, Health and Family Welfare Ministry and partner NGOs were present in the signing ceremony.

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The assistance will be used to implement a project styled 'Better Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young People in Urban and Peri-urban Areas of Bangladesh' over the next two and a half years (2003-2006).

"The project is expected to contribute to Health Sector Programme and IPRSP," says a UNFPA news release.

Five national NGOs--Marie Stopes Clinic Society (MSCS), Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB), Save the Children UK-Bangladesh (SC-UK), Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) and Concern Women for Family Development (CWFD)--will work in partnership with UNFPA and MOHFW/GOB. The RHIYA projects will cover Sylhet.

These projects will mainly target the poor under-served and vulnerable adolescents and youth of 10-24 years of age in 24 sites and in selected 16 district towns and four metropolitan cities.