[{"bbox": [83, 105, 1146, 159], "category": "Text", "text": "Overall responsibility for NSSS lies with the Central Management Committee (CMC) which is led by Cabinet Division and comprises 30 concerned Ministries - the duty-bearers (public institutions)."}, {"bbox": [83, 170, 1146, 279], "category": "Text", "text": "The Cabinet Division operates under the supervision of the Prime Minister. It coordinates and monitors the NSSS implementation. It is one of the main counterparts of the action. A Social Protection Budget Monitoring Unit (SPBMU) is established in the Finance Division at the Ministry of Finance (MoF/FD) focusing on sector financial management and digital transfers (Government-to-Person or \"G2P\")."}, {"bbox": [83, 288, 1146, 500], "category": "Text", "text": "Line ministries have been allocated responsibility for specific NSSS clusters: the Ministry of Social Welfare (MoSW) is responsible for social allowances. The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA) manages social assistance programmes targeted at women and children. It also plays a key role in the development and implementation of gender and child protection policies and programmes. The objective of Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) is to alleviate poverty through the creation of employment opportunities for the poor, unemployed and unskilled labour force of the country. Its Department of Labour (DoL) support of regulating the labour market and labour relations therein. MoLE is also assigned to draft National Social Insurance Scheme (NSIS) in coordination with Financial Institutions Division (FID) of MoF."}, {"bbox": [83, 514, 1146, 727], "category": "Text", "text": "The General Economic Division (GED) and the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) of the Planning Commission are responsible for process monitoring of the reforms, and for the development of a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system of the NSSS. The Ministry of Local Government plays a key role in the management and delivery of social safety nets at the local level. Its involvement will be mainstreamed. The action will also build on the dynamics of local women organisations and other organisations representing minorities or/and people living in vulnerable situations to promote access to social and economic services by involving them in the development of programmes and monitoring of activities. The multi-sectoral Bangladesh National Nutrition Council was revived with the approval of NPAN2 by the Prime Minister in 2017."}, {"bbox": [87, 758, 482, 786], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.3. Additional Areas of Assessment"}, {"bbox": [146, 801, 357, 830], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.3.1. Public Policy"}, {"bbox": [83, 850, 1149, 1118], "category": "Text", "text": "The NSSS was developed based on an analysis of the existing social security framework which comprises around 120 programmes financed through the national budget managed by over 20 line Ministries/Divisions. Despite the multiplicity of programmes and relatively high Government spending (c.16% of total expenditure in FY20/21), coverage and impact on poverty gap remain limited: targeting is inappropriate with high exclusion errors (around one third of poor households do not have access to social assistance programme) and levels of benefits are inadequately low. The majority of programmes also targets rural areas. Eight Ministries oversee the largest part of the budget, with pension for Government officials representing around one third²⁹. While Cabinet Division is ensuring NSSS coordination, there is so far no Ministry responsible for overall sector policy development and coordination (the Ministry of Social Welfare should take over this responsibility in 2026). Despite improvements, inadequacies in planning and budgeting continue to be observed."}, {"bbox": [83, 1128, 1149, 1395], "category": "Text", "text": "The NSSS seeks to strengthen and rationalise the system to achieve better results from the use of budget on poverty and nutritional outcomes. It focuses on improving overall effectiveness, broadening scope and coverage and ensuring adequate monitoring and evaluation. The approach taken to reform is through the transformation of existing schemes into a reduced number of lifecycle programmes (childhood, working age, elderly). The strategy focuses also on social security of people with disabilities, socially excluded groups and people living in vulnerable situations in urban areas, as well as considers the progressive introduction of a social insurance system³⁰. The system is reliant on the National Household Database (NHD) established at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics to improve targeting and registration. The Ministries of Disaster Management and Social Welfare will test the use of the NHD for their programmes from June 2021 with the objective to roll-out its use to major programmes by FY22/23. The success of the modality will depend on enhancement of civil registration and other MIS."}, {"bbox": [83, 1405, 1149, 1460], "category": "Text", "text": "The NSSS incorporates a strong gender equality focus with a variety of measures to enhance women's economic empowerment, access to healthcare and childcare services as well as employment security. It also pursues the"}, {"bbox": [72, 1539, 1157, 1613], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁹ Ministry of Food (5%), Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (19%), Finance Division (28%), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (4%), Ministry of Local Government (12%), Ministry of Social welfare (12%) Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (5%), Ministry of health and Family Welfare (6%). Source: NSSS, June 2015."}, {"bbox": [72, 1612, 887, 1638], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³⁰ Contributory National Social Insurance Scheme (NSIS) and Private Voluntary Pension Scheme."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 27"}]