Commitment

Strengthen financial tracking system

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: MOFood, MoA, MOWCA , MoPME , MOHFW, MOLGRD&C, BNNC
Academic or non-academic research institution: SUN Academia and Research Networks
Commitment made: 31 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Targeted location (aggregate)

National - National
Verification status Find out more

Commitment description

Strengthen multisectoral tracking of financial allocation for nutrition:

The Ministry of Finance (MoF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Ministry of Planning (MoP), Ministry of Food (MoFood), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MOPME), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MOWCA), Ministry of Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives (MOLGRD&C) and development partners, commits to developing and engaging a multisectoral budget tracking system for nutrition. Progress will be monitored by the Ministry of Finance with support from the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council. The overall estimated cost for the development and operation of the financial tracking system will be BDT 4.7 crore.

Commitment goals

Strengthen multisectoral tracking of financial allocation for nutrition

  • Nutrition Action Classification: Enabling > Research monitoring and data
  • Goal SMARTness index: Upper 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 47,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 552,421.2506 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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