Delivering a Contextualized Package-of-Care for Child Development (0 - 12 Months) and Maternal Mental Health in the Rohangian Refugee Camps in Bangladesh

The Project will contextualize and evaluate an intervention for community-based child development and maternal depression care in refugee camps. Bangladesh has received around 750,000 refugees from Myanmar. In such difficult circumstance (1, 2), this is important to enable refugee mothers to take better care of their own health and development of young children; but a contextualized intervention to deliver such care in refugee camps is found lacking. The Association, with GCC support, has developed an effective intervention for modestly educated providers (10 year schooling) to deliver ECD care in poor settings (3). These intervention materials (i.e. provider training and mother counseling) will be contextualized and evaluated for delivering similar care in Bangladesh refugee setting. A cluster randomized trial, process evaluation and costing study will help knowing its effectiveness and feasibility in refugee setting. If useful, the care may get expanded to all refugee population.