Commitment

Reduce prevalence of food insecurity

Government / Bangladesh

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh

Partner organisations:
Private sector food business: Private sectors
Multilateral organisations, including United Nations (UN) agencies: UN agencies, Development Partners, Donors, NGOs
Country government at any administrative level: MoA, MoFL, MoInd, MOHFW, MOWCA , MOSW , MOLGRD&C, MODMR
Academic or non-academic research institution: SUN Academia and Research Networks
Commitment made: 31 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - Vulnerable population group, Special focus on poor and hard to reach areas
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Commitment description

Reduce prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES):

The Ministry of Food (MoFood) in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MOFL) , Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Ministry of Social Welfare (MOSW), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MOWCA), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MODMR), Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MOLGRD&C), Ministry of Industries (MOInd),Development Partners and CSOs, commit to ensuring access, availability, affordability and utilization of safe and nutritious food to ensure food security as measured through the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES). The commitment will thereby be to reduce moderate and severe food insecurity from 30.5% to 24.2% and 10.2% to 6% respectively by 2025. This will be done by ensuring adequate and stable supply of safe and nutritious food through integrated public food management and coordination with multi-sectoral policies and programmes. The total cost for this will be BDT 58201 crore, which will be tracked through the multi-sectoral financial tracking mechanism.

Commitment goals

Ensure adequate and stable supply of safe and nutritious food through integrated public food management and coordination with multisectoral policies and programmes

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Impact > Food and nutrition security
  • Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate

Global Nutrition Targets

Under-5 stunting
Under-5 wasting
Low birthweight

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 582,000,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 6,840,620,592.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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