Bangladesh Country Investment Plan - Feed the Future

B. Priority Interventions
6 Priorities from
Consultation
Process (Brief
description of
activities)
8 Main national
implementation
institutions
9 Main
international
DPs
10 Main
implementation
challenges
Government’s capacity to ensure long term food security to a growing
population and avoid sudden food insecurity in the short term requires, among
others, capacity of the concerned government institutions to undertake informed
policy decisions on the issues having impact on food security needs to be
improved.
Two areas currently partly covered by NFPCSP need stronger focus: early
warning system and production, collation and dissemination of information
among all stakeholders. Moreover, the capacity to implementation and
monitoring of the implementation of the Country Investment Plan and to
Formulate and Monitor the implementation of investment programs needs to be
developed. From various consultations the issue arose that insufficient
organizational and human capacities are a major impediment to the design and
effective implementation of investment operations in food and nutrition security.
The prioritized interventions are as follows:
Strengthen capacities to implement, monitor and coordinate NFP and CIP
It is proposed to build on the on-going NFP-CSP to further enhance the
Government capacity in overall policy development and monitoring in the field
of food security. Also, there is need to develop capacity to monitor the overall
implementation (resource mobilization and use) of the CIP and its results.
Strengthen national capacities for design, implementation & monitoring of
CIP operations
The proposed activities are the development of national capacities in the field of
investment cycle management (planning, design, implementation, management
and monitoring and evaluation).
Strengthen capacities of civil society organizations
The purposed interventions are to strengthen both the institutional capacities for
better involvement of the CSOs in the policy dialogue and overall CIP updating
process and their more effective participation in the CIP investment operations at
community level.
The prioritized activities are: Food monitoring facilities should be increased in
field level (H). Strengthening and expanding capacity to implement, monitor and
coordinate NFP-PoA (H). Strengthening the capacity to formulate, implement,
monitor and coordinate the CIP programme (H).
C. Implementation Features
The national implementation institutes are FPMU, NARS institutes, Universities
and Food division.
USAID and EC are the main contributors in capacity development for the
implementation of the national food policy, along with a lower but significant
investment of ADB. The LCG/ARDFS has been leading the sector coordinating
DPs.
The current challenge to achieving food security lies in implementing the Plan of
Action while the future challenge also lies in preparing an updated National
Food Policy and Plan of Action beyond 2015 and implementation of CIP.
Careful attention must be needed to take full advantage of the potential for
synergies and collaboration. The implementation challenges are effective
coordination among different ministries and line agencies.
Note: The activities prioritized as Top (T), high (H) medium (M) and low (L).
Updated Bangladesh Country Investment Plan: A Road Map Towards investing in Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition
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