[{"bbox": [143, 119, 1122, 237], "category": "Text", "text": "system'. An Annual Review in November 2015 concluded that 'The NSSS has full backing of senior leaders in Government of Bangladesh. The NSSS has great potential to open up the policy space, allowing the programme to deliver outputs with more confidence and pursue outcome level objectives'."}, {"bbox": [143, 247, 1122, 650], "category": "Text", "text": "The Government of Bangladesh's ambition on extreme poverty is stronger than ever before with a clear commitment to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021. The **exit strategy** builds on the strong Government of Bangladesh ownership of the social security agenda and its associated reforms, with Government of Bangladesh expected to support effective graduation-style livelihood programmes, alongside reformed NSSS social security instruments and increased investments/basic service provision in the 'lagging' regions. Government of Bangladesh programme ownership and progress towards the exit strategy is expected to be reinforced by capacity development, policy/advocacy work and leverage of funds. This programme serves as a transition to an EU budget support to contribute to the NSSS implementation, allowing us to obtain further evidence (including gender aspects) in the ground and influence in policy and the future NSSS roll-out. In a **sequential/gradual approach**, this programme tests first the relevance/credibility of the NSSS reform initial steps/directions –also with the policy component-and therefore contributes to define a possible sectoral budget support at a later stage foreseen under AAP 2018 to further incentivize reforms."}, {"bbox": [143, 708, 371, 736], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [143, 748, 1122, 951], "category": "Text", "text": "**Gender and women and girls empowerment and inequalities:** Gender equality is an important and deliberate objective, while the principal reason for undertaking the project is to contribute to the creation of sustained pathways out of extreme poverty and vulnerability. The action will foresee a gender mainstreaming strategy based on gender sectoral analysis that identified the specific needs of women, men, boys, girls, etc. In addition, the action will reinforce the capacities of public institutions to integrate the gender aspects in the public policies. The participation of women will be encouraged in all phases and activities of the action."}, {"bbox": [143, 963, 1102, 1047], "category": "Text", "text": "**Disability:** In line with the EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities, this action will strive to ensure systematic inclusion, equal access and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities."}, {"bbox": [143, 1061, 1122, 1295], "category": "Text", "text": "**Environment:** The environmental and climate-related risks need to be addressed. As a specific response, the project will promote sustainable livelihoods and sustainable natural resource management, as well climate resilient agriculture. Based on the strategic views offered by the Bangladesh Country Environmental Profile (2014) -product of the EU+ joint programming-, diverse (on-farm & off-farm) livelihood options accompanied with appropriate skill sets will be supported to enable poor people in tackling unprecedented impacts of climate change -and related displacement/migration-, sustainable use of natural resources, environmental stress and loss of biodiversity."}, {"bbox": [143, 1306, 1122, 1569], "category": "Text", "text": "**Good Governance & Human Rights:** Sustained economic empowerment through resilient livelihoods will help rural and urban poor, particularly women and persons with disabilities, to address various forms of insecurity, deprivation and inequality. Community participation and social mobilization will be promoted to strengthen inclusivity of marginalised groups in their communities (such as indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities), towns/cities and in the political system. A Rights based approach by the respect of the five working principles will be applied in all phases. The five working principles are: i) respect to all human rights, ii) participation, iii) non-discrimination, iv) transparency and v) accountability. The action will reinforce the capacities of the duty bearers/public institutions, the rights-holders, and their"}, {"bbox": [600, 1605, 636, 1629], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[20]"}]