Commitment

Increase social security programs

Government / Bangladesh

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh

Partner organisations:
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UN agencies, Development Partners, Donors, NGOs
Country government at any administrative level: MOFood, MoA, MoFL, MOWCA , MOSW , MoPME , MOHFW, MoSW, MODMR, MoF, BNNC
Private sector food business: Private sectors
Commitment made: 31 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - National with focusing of poor and vulnerable population and hard to reach areas
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Commitment description

Increase the coverage of nutrition-related social security programs:

The Cabinet Division in collaboration with Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR), Ministry of Finance (MoF), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Ministry of Food (MoFood), Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL), Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME), Ministry of Women and Children Affaires (MOWCA), Ministry of Social Welfare (MoSW), Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (for coordination) and Development partners will ensure the resources to increase coverage of the population by social security programs (from current 28.7% [HIES] to 35%); enhance flexible systems for resilience, create a database and programs to reach nutritionally vulnerable population and timely transfer (nutritious food package and/or cash) across urban and rural areas by involving partners including private sectors by 2025. To cover additional costs BDT 12650 crore will be secured by the government of Bangladesh and partners. The resource allocation and expenditure will be monitored through a multi-sectoral nutrition budget tracking system.

Commitment goals

To improve resilience for nutrition outcomes among vulnerable population

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Nutrition care services
  • Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate

Nutrition Action Classification across all goals

Enabling

  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Leadership and governance
  • Research monitoring and data

Policy

  • Food environment
  • Food supply chain
  • Consumer knowledge
  • Nutrition care services

Impact

  • Undernutrition
  • Diet
  • Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Food and nutrition security

N4G themes covered by goals

  • Food
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Total funding and costs across all goals

Funders TBD
Funding mechanism Revenue and development budget
Cost secured TBD
Total costs estimated Yes, and the amount publicly disclosed
Currency (BDT) - Bangladeshi taka
Cost amount 127,000,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 1,492,712,741.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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