[{"bbox": [143, 121, 1121, 265], "category": "Text", "text": "extreme poverty is 16 percentage-points over the average. For example, the South-west of Bangladesh, CHT districts present a high degree of deprivation reflected in indicators such as widespread food poverty and poor access to services. As overarching goal, the 7FYP aims at reducing the poverty rate to 18.6% and extreme poverty to 8.9% by 2020, in line with the first Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 'eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere'."}, {"bbox": [143, 277, 1120, 595], "category": "Text", "text": "To address the extreme poverty challenge, the 7FYP envisages supporting **the extreme poor, through a package which includes**: (a) Replication of successful targeted livelihoods programmes; (b) Support for human capital development; and (c) Expanded and inclusive social protection programmes. In addition, promoting sustainable agriculture to ensure food and nutrition security, enhancing sustainable intensification, diversification and commercialization of climate resilient production is a priority, with particular emphasis on innovation, research and supply/value chain development. Besides, market development for better employment and income generation, increased access to basic services in remote areas, countering the marginalisation of vulnerable groups and empowering the extreme poor, particularly women, are also prioritized. Similarly, the creation of alternative livelihoods building on the resilience of communities to manage risk and the sustainable management of natural resources will be enhanced."}, {"bbox": [143, 608, 1121, 1096], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation of the 2015 National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) will be an essential pillar of the 7FYP vision to reduce poverty, inequality and malnutrition. The NSSS-associated reforms will involve significant streamlining and strengthening of existing transfer instruments thereby addressing identified weaknesses and capacity needs in targeting, adequacy of benefits, coverage, responding to urban poverty, administrative and monitoring capacities and overall accountability. This will be achieved through consolidating and rationalizing existing 'safety net' schemes (over 100 schemes implemented by a multitude of agencies/ministries) into a smaller number of effective and universal life-cycle programmes. The link between the improvement of nutrition and sustainable agriculture and inequalities should be strengthened. Health and nutrition are both results and drivers of income inequality. Promoting breastfeeding, providing nutritional supplements for young children and ensuring access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth and development and an active and healthy life for all is in the 4th macro-areas of the EU objectives for the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities. A strategic dialogue with Civil Societies and NGOs will be developed to target most vulnerable segments of the population and then with the government to implement its commitment to improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture and guarantee the access to bottom 40% to community clinics in support of the National Nutrition Services."}, {"bbox": [143, 1100, 1121, 1533], "category": "Text", "text": "The Government of Bangladesh has already committed itself to eradicate extreme poverty by 2021 and the localisation of the global SDGs in Bangladesh will serve as a new opportunity to confirm that commitment towards improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture. However, the NSSS is ambitious and capacities to deliver required services and interventions remain weak, and the pace and extent of reform under the steering of the Cabinet Division is likely to be slow -across ministries involved in various thematic clusters/coordination mechanisms: social allowance, food security and disaster assistance, social insurance, labour/livelihoods and human development & social empowerment-. In nominal terms, the total safety nets budget for 2013/2014 slightly increased from EUR 2 billion to EUR 2.3 billion from the previous year and is expected to further increase to EUR 2.7 billion over the next year. This is around 10% of the Government of Bangladesh budget and represents 2.3% of GDP, increasing to 2.7% of GDP based on projections for 2017/2018 and the growing fiscal base. The action will be designed so as to have that impact on the bottom poorest or socio-economically disadvantaged individuals, households or groups in particular. To achieve this the action is to be designed with appropriated targeted activities, and possibly considering using the Equity Tool to help in the identification of the beneficiaries."}, {"bbox": [605, 1606, 630, 1628], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "[6]"}]