[{"bbox": [143, 114, 1141, 341], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td rowspan=\"3\">10. Internal markers<sup>4</sup></td><td>Digitalisation<sup>5</sup></td><td></td><td>X</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Migration<sup>6</sup></td><td></td><td>X</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Inequality</td><td></td><td>X</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>11. Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC) thematic flagships</td><td colspan=\"4\">Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture; Environment and climate change</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [143, 375, 254, 400], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## SUMMARY"}, {"bbox": [143, 416, 1119, 907], "category": "Text", "text": "Over the last decade and a half, Bangladesh has made remarkable achievements in terms of sustained economic growth, human development and poverty reduction, having just met all poverty-related Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and assured food self-sufficiency. Yet, near 20 million Bangladeshis continue to live in extreme poverty and a further 45 million people if we were to consider the international extreme poverty line of $1.25 per person per day, with a considerably larger share of the population facing food and nutrition insecurity. Besides, the country's vulnerability to a range of natural hazards, including climate change, political and economic risks combined with a rapid environmental degradation & urbanization -high rural to urban migration- and institutional fragility contribute to perpetuate the cycle of poverty and to further slow progress on nutritional outcomes -there are 5.4 million stunted children under five. The 7th Five-Year Plan 2016-2020, the recent National Social Security Strategy NSSS and the new National Nutrition Policy, represent Government of Bangladesh's renewed commitment to address the interconnected challenges of reducing extreme poverty, undernutrition and vulnerability to natural hazards -induced and other shocks/stresses. In full alignment, the EU Multi-Annual Indicative Programme 2014-2020 reflects the strong EU commitment to promote opportunities for increased food & nutrition security and resilience for the people living in extreme poverty with special focus on women and children."}, {"bbox": [143, 920, 1119, 1440], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed Action builds on the findings and the common analysis arising from: a joint EU-FCDO Design/Identification mission involving multi-sectoral expertise; lessons learned from recent extreme poverty programmes with specific contributions from GIZ on urban and migration linkages; and, extensive consultations with Government of Bangladesh agencies and key stakeholders. The resulting assumption is that the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh demands the exploration of a new transformational approach going beyond the traditional poverty graduation models in Bangladesh which have had limited success and fallen short of connecting the poor to government services and the economy in the long term. The Action intends to contribute to the creation of sustained pathways out of poverty in most vulnerable areas, through simultaneous investments in livelihoods and social security for long-term resilience, adopting a \"push-pull\" strategy that helps people living in poverty to move towards diversified livelihood opportunities and greater food & nutrition security, whilst creating demand or pulling people into the formal economy and democratic system via private sector value chains and markets, and access to institutional services and governance processes. The Action also contributes to minimize forced climate displacement and internal/cross-border migration, including specific targeted interventions for the reintegration of returnees from the EU. In light of the structure of the programme and the overall allocated budget, the Action aims at providing better opportunities for an estimated 2 million people living in extreme poverty and in the most vulnerable situations (500,000"}, {"bbox": [143, 1474, 1117, 1516], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ These markers have a different scope/rationale than the DAC codes. Posting criteria related to the encoding of the financial breakdown in CRIS/ABAC"}, {"bbox": [143, 1518, 971, 1540], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ Please refer to the instruction notes Ares(2019)4143016 dated of 01/07/2019 and Ares(2019)5219708 dated of 13/08/2019."}, {"bbox": [143, 1542, 517, 1564], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ Please refer to note Ares(2019)627611 of 04/02/2019."}, {"bbox": [604, 1605, 630, 1627], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[3]"}]