Commitment

Strengthen nutrition surveillance 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: MoP, MOFood, MoA, MOWCA , MOSW , MOLGRD&C, MOLGRD&C, MODMR, 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 and mainstream the multi-sectoral nutrition surveillance system:

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW ) in collaboration with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) under the Ministry of Planning (MoP), Ministry of Food (MOFood) in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MOWCA), Ministry of Social Welfare (MOSW), Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MODMR), Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MOLGRD&C), Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC) commits to strengthen and mainstream the current nutrition surveillance system to monitor and measure nutrition outcomes encompassing both development and humanitarian programs (nutrition specific and sensitive) across urban and rural areas by 2025 to complement the existing monitoring systems. To implement strengthened the nutrition surveillance system about BDT 85 crore is committed by GOB and partners. Financial commitment will be tracked through the multi-sectoral budget tracking system for nutrition.

Commitment goals

To strengthen and mainstream the nutrition surveillance system in both development and humanitarian settings

  • 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 850,000,000.0
$USD equivalent 9,990,597.085 (World Bank average exchange rate for 2021)

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