Evaluation of School-based Nutrition Intervention for Adolescents in Bangladesh

The outcome evaluation was a school (cluster)-based, randomized controlled trial with three equal size intervention arms, sampling adolescents, teachers, and student leaders in 75 selected schools. The study investigated the impact of the school-based program implemented in Joypurhat and aimed to examine the effectiveness and factors influencing scalability of using the secondary school platform to deliver WIFA co-packaged with WASH, MHM, and BCI to improve the nutrition and health status of adolescents in Bangladesh. The process evaluation sampled adolescents, teachers, and student leaders from 12 schools selected through convenience sampling for qualitative interviews, and determined whether the school-based program was implemented as intended, and why and how the intervention components worked to produce an impact - specifically, assessing the level of adherence.