[{"bbox": [143, 119, 1120, 319], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the National Food Policy Plan of Action and its second pillar of \"Access to Food\", the Government of Bangladesh precisely highlights the need to enhance the institutional and capacity development for more effective safety nets. At present, in partnership with Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Ministry of Food, the EU is supporting efforts to write and incorporate \"nutrition-sensitive\" strategic interventions into the new 2015 National Nutrition Policy and its multi-sectoral Plan of Action -overseen by a revived National Nutrition Council chaired by the Prime Minister-."}, {"bbox": [160, 376, 772, 405], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.3 Public Policy Analysis of the partner country/region"}, {"bbox": [143, 417, 1120, 851], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU Multi-Annual Indicative Programme MIP 2014-2020 reflects the EU commitment to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition, with particular emphasis on enhancing livelihood opportunities and increasing resilience for the extreme poor and vulnerable women. The 2012 EC Communication on Social Protection in EU Development Cooperation clearly articulates the role of social protection in underpinning sustainable development, by enhancing equity and social inclusion. Given the significance of the nutrition challenge for poverty eradication in Bangladesh, it is important to highlight the theory of change underlying the potential relevance of the NSSS to accelerate improved nutrition outcomes, especially among the poorest. The 2013 EU Communication Enhancing Maternal and Child Nutrition in External Assistance (together with the 2014 Nutrition Action Plan) is focused on reducing undernutrition with stunting as its main objective, and the focus on ensuring optimal nutrition outcomes from a multi-sectoral 'nutrition-sensitive' approach. Also, in preparation for the 2015 SDGs Summit, the EU released the Communication titled, 'A Global Partnership for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development after 2015', which urges to foster innovation that helps citizens to escape poverty and reduce the vulnerability to disasters and other shocks."}, {"bbox": [143, 863, 1120, 1298], "category": "Text", "text": "Also, the EU Resilience approach calls for strong collaboration between Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA), bringing together humanitarian assistance, long term development cooperation and on-going political/policy engagement for more sustainable and equitable development gains. Bangladesh is considered a flagship country for Resilience for the EC in Asia. The \"EU Action Plan for Resilience in Crisis Prone Countries 2013 – 2020\" lays out that resilience should not only contribute to increasing capacities to deal with vulnerabilities, but it will also constitute an opportunity for transformation, in terms of adaptation to changing environments, empowerment, improved livelihoods and economic opportunities for the most deprived. In June 2014, a National Workshop on Resilience was organized in Dhaka by the EU Delegation/ECHO with EU Member States (MSs) identified two areas particularly vulnerable to shocks and stresses, namely the waterlogging areas in the South-West and the conflict-vulnerable Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The implementation of the resilience agenda will support ECHO to exit from non-emergency situations, as the root causes of recurrent crises will be addressed, especially in the CHT and the South West (SW) waterlogged areas."}, {"bbox": [143, 1326, 1120, 1472], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is aligned and will contribute to the Gender Action Plan III 2021 – 2025 specifically to the thematic area “promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women” and the specific thematic objective “increased access for women, in all their diversity, to decent work, including women’s transition to the formal economy and coverage by non-discriminatory and inclusive social protection systems”."}, {"bbox": [605, 1605, 630, 1629], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[7]"}]