[{"bbox": [82, 104, 1144, 186], "category": "Text", "text": "security, access to health care and protection of women's rights at work during maternity and beyond. The action links to the country's gender policies (e.g. the 2011 Women Development Policy) as it relates to promoting access to adequate social protection for mothers and children (child benefit programme and maternity leave)."}, {"bbox": [82, 196, 1144, 251], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will contribute to pursuing these objectives by supporting GoB's efforts to build nationally appropriate social security system and measures for all Bangladeshis, in line with the NSSS."}, {"bbox": [82, 294, 229, 321], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [82, 333, 1144, 467], "category": "Text", "text": "Social Protection is a human right, a major tool to tackle poverty and social exclusion, reduce inequalities (including gender inequalities), promote human development, increase productivity and employability and contribute to economic growth. Efficient social protection systems to prevent people from falling into (extreme) poverty and to better manage risks across the life-cycle. The action will contribute to pursuing these objectives by supporting GoB's efforts to build nationally appropriate social security system and measures for all Bangladeshis, in line with the NSSS."}, {"bbox": [82, 510, 179, 538], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [82, 548, 908, 576], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D1."}, {"bbox": [82, 588, 1144, 666], "category": "Text", "text": "With its focus on ensuring social protection for all, the action will contribute to enhancing access of persons with disabilities in relevant programmes as well as to designing appropriate disability-specific schemes, in line with the NSSS."}, {"bbox": [82, 713, 195, 740], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [82, 750, 1144, 858], "category": "Text", "text": "There is a strong overlap between social protection and EU priorities to promote democracy. It is a key tool to build political stability, social cohesion and to help communities to cope with structural challenges. The action will contribute to pursuing these objectives by supporting GoB's efforts to build nationally appropriate social security system and measures for all Bangladeshis, in line with the NSSS."}, {"bbox": [82, 902, 472, 929], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [82, 940, 1144, 1021], "category": "Text", "text": "Social protection is a powerful socio-economic stabilizer: it strengthens socio-economic systems and people's resilience in times of crisis/ shocks. The action will pursue these objectives by supporting GoB's efforts to build nationally appropriate social security system and measures for all Bangladeshis, in line with the NSSS."}, {"bbox": [82, 1032, 1144, 1218], "category": "Text", "text": "The COVID-19 pandemic particularly emphasized the need to work on two complementary levels: build household resilience before shocks occur; and increase the capacity and capability of systems to respond to shocks after they occur to support immediate needs in a timely manner. The NSSS pursues the objective of building adaptive capacities against climate change and strengthening resilience towards shocks by ensuring availability of adequate and scalable mechanisms to provide rapid responses. The action builds on GoB's COVID-19 response to provide assistance to workers who lost their jobs to develop and establish appropriate and permanent social security mechanisms for workers (in the RMG/export-oriented sector)."}, {"bbox": [82, 1263, 320, 1288], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [82, 1301, 1144, 1435], "category": "Text", "text": "The consequences of climate change-induced and other natural disasters affecting people in vulnerable situations will be addressed by building the adaptive capacities of the social protection system. For this, core programme should adjust and or specific shock-response programme should scale-up dynamically in times of crisis. A financing strategy should be in place. The action will pursue these objectives by supporting GoB's efforts to build nationally appropriate social security system and measures for all Bangladeshis, in line with the NSSS."}, {"bbox": [82, 1465, 410, 1493], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4. Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [68, 1506, 1156, 1616], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Impact (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1039, 1662, 1156, 1686], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 13 of 27"}]