Bangladesh

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Mobilizing domestic and international finance to support national efforts to improve nutrition.

Reported progress

There are political commitments to improve investment in Nutrition. Government has allocated more resources for Agriculture, food and nutrition sectors.

A PER-N was conducted in 2018-2019 to improve transparency in investments in nutrition, which will provide a baseline for further improvements in accountability and transparency in financing for nutrition.

The Government of Bangladesh has committed to 12 goals for nutrition, including their required financial resources (approximately $8.4 billion between 2021-2025) during the N4G Summit in Tokyo 2021.

The PER-N conducted in 2018-19 is being used as a baseline for a second PER-N, as well as the basis for the development of a Financial Tracking System for Nutrition (FTS4N). The FTS4N development has started, focusing on six key nutrition-relevant ministries. The system is expected to be operational before 2024.

Currently a "Financial tracking system for Nutrition" is way to developed. All necessary steps taken to established the online tracking system in Bangladesh.

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1. Reducing stunting from 41% (in 2011) to 38% (in 2016).

2. Reduce wasting from 16% (in 2011) to 12% (in 2016).

Reported progress

1. Stunting at 31% in 2017/18 (Bangladesh Demographic & Health Survey)

2. Wasting at 8% in 2017/18 (Bangladesh Demographic & Health Survey)

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1. Reviewing the national policy for nutrition to ensure that both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions are given due attention.

2. Strengthening the national coordination mechanism for improved nutrition.

Reported progress

1. National Nutrition Policy (NNP) 2015, 2nd National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2) (2016-2025), Second Country Investment Plan Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems (CIP2) (2017-2021) and National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (NFNSP) 2020 were prepared;

2. Nutrition included in 8th FYP;

3. The review of sectoral policies in view of the food security and gender has been undertaken. A further review of all sectoral policies including the development partners has been initiated;

4. SUN MSP and six Networks functional;

5. Nutrition focal persons were identified across 22 relevant ministries;

8. BNNC and SUN jointly conducted a review of nutrition related (specific and sensitive) policies, plans, strategies, and legislations of the Government and development partners in Bangladesh in 2021 to determine whether and how these have adequately addressed and incorporated nutrition issues. The objective was to create potential opportunities to mainstream and operationalize nutrition issues into policies and programs of relevant ministries and development partners. A total of twenty-four policies of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and two relevant policies of the UN and the country development strategy of USAID were reviewed. A policy Brief was also prepared.

9. A Third Country Investment Plan for Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems (CIP3) was developed.

10. District Nutrition Coordination Committees (DNCCs) were established in 49 more locations for sub-national level multi-sectoral nutrition coordination.

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Review national safety net programs to ensure they are nutrition sensitive and deliver improved nutrition outcomes.

Reported progress

An assessment of Social Safety Nets Programme (SSNPs) was conducted in 2021 to understand their nutrition and gender sensitivity jointly by BNNC and Cabinet Division. A total of 26 SSNPs were reviewed. On the basis of the assessment a policy brief was prepared to support and provide inputs for the revised action plan for the National Social Security Strategy.