Commitment

Reduce prevalence of Undernourishment

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, Youth Forums, NGOs
Country government at any administrative level: MoA, MoFL, MoInd, MOHFW
Commitment made: 31 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit | 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - Special focus on poor and hard to reach areas
Verification status Find out more

Commitment description

The Ministry of Food, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MoFL), Ministry of Industries (MoInd), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), UN agencies, Development Partners and CSOs, commits to reduce the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) from 13% in 2017-2019 to 10.5% by 2025 among the entire population of Bangladesh through implementing the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy Plan of Action (2021-2030) and intensification of multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder efforts. Progress will be monitored through SOFI. The overall estimated cost is approximately BDT 177424 Crore. Financial commitment will be tracked through the multi-sectoral budget tracking system for nutrition.

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: Upper 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 1,770,000,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 20,803,949,224.0 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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