[{"bbox": [144, 121, 1119, 236], "category": "Text", "text": "Access to a more flexible menu of products, including grants and soft loans with relevant skills training, over a longer time frame enables vulnerable Health and Human Services (HHs) to develop a livelihood strategy that supports larger and more sustained income and consumption gains, reduces vulnerability, and enables them to access a sustained upward income trajectory."}, {"bbox": [144, 249, 1119, 393], "category": "Text", "text": "A combined package of households level nutrition counselling to pregnant and lactating women (provided through the programme) and facilitated access to essential vitamins and micronutrients (provided through the National Nutrition Services) will, in combination with livelihood support - including home gardening- and wider work on social norms, have a significant impact on maternal and infant & young child feeding Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices."}, {"bbox": [144, 407, 1119, 493], "category": "Text", "text": "**Pathway 2: Combined interventions to improve extreme poor households' access to value chains and promote downstream market development increases the income and/or job opportunities for target households and supports livelihood diversification.**"}, {"bbox": [144, 505, 1119, 592], "category": "Text", "text": "The majority of the extreme poor can, with programme support, develop the necessary basic and technical skills to meet Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) demands and/or manage/expand a micro-enterprise successfully."}, {"bbox": [144, 605, 1119, 692], "category": "Text", "text": "There is scope to increase the income and job opportunities for the (emerging) extreme poor in rural markets by tackling market and coordination failures factors that lead to underinvestment in downstream firms or prevent poor people's access to job opportunities."}, {"bbox": [144, 704, 1119, 788], "category": "Text", "text": "**Pathway 3: Social mobilisation and national advocacy amplifies the voice of the extreme poor and marginal communities leading to increased Government of Bangladesh spending on basic services and wider access.**"}, {"bbox": [144, 804, 1119, 889], "category": "Text", "text": "Interventions at local level to promote community voice and tackle social norms that entrench gender and other forms of inequality and exclusion contribute to improved basic service delivery and create new opportunities for women and socially excluded households and individuals."}, {"bbox": [144, 902, 1119, 1018], "category": "Text", "text": "Mobilising communities to understand and advocate for their rights and hold local government to account creates the demand and pressure for local government agencies to allocate existing resources more equitably and push central government for more resources. Town level coordination committees (Pourashava Act) will be supported."}, {"bbox": [144, 1030, 1119, 1146], "category": "Text", "text": "**Pathway 4: Support for testing the introduction of comprehensive social security initiatives in lagging regions, adds momentum to the reform process and contributes to accelerated learning, political support and wider scale-up of a reformed social security system.**"}, {"bbox": [144, 1159, 1119, 1246], "category": "Text", "text": "Supporting scale-up of reformed safety nets/life cycle grants of Ministry of Social Welfare (MoSW) and/or MoWCA in targeted areas can provide an additional impetus for the NSSS reform process and overcome short-term logistical and capacity constraints to NSSS implementation."}, {"bbox": [144, 1259, 1119, 1342], "category": "Text", "text": "A flexible research and advocacy component supports a range of initiatives that influence/strengthen Government of Bangladesh policy and delivery with increased investments in basic services."}, {"bbox": [144, 1358, 1119, 1444], "category": "Text", "text": "Policy work and technical support help Government of Bangladesh and key line ministries implement the reforms set out in the NSSS and 7th 5-Year Plan and increase budget allocation to fund new instruments, overcoming bureaucratic blockages."}, {"bbox": [144, 1457, 1119, 1544], "category": "Text", "text": "This builds on the ongoing FCDO Technical Assistance (TA) programme, 'Strengthening Government Social Protection Systems for the Poor' whose main outcome is for 'the Government of Bangladesh to establish policies, budgets and plans for a more effective social protection"}, {"bbox": [600, 1606, 635, 1628], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[19]"}]