Presidency university

Course code# HUM 205

Spring 2009

Course Instructor# Zafrin Ahmed Liza

Presenting group members

• Md. Abul Hasnat – 081 091 025

• Quazi Nayeemul Huq – 081 222 025

• Nusrat Ali- 081 031 025

• Quazi Naveed Mahmud- 063 068 025

Presentation topic

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)

&

Millennium Development Goal (MDG)

Of

Bangladesh

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)

PRSPWhat is PRSP?

PRSP is a national strategy for Economic growth, poverty reduction

and social development. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) are prepared by

member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF. Updated every three years with annual progress reports, they describe the country's macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated

PRSP for Bangladesh

The principal goal of the Bangladesh Government’s economic policy is to

reduce poverty so as

to gradually lift the vast majority of the people above the poverty line and improve

the quality of life for

the average citizen.

Basic Strategy of Bangladesh According PRSP

The medium term strategic agenda for Bangladesh for the goal of accelerated poverty reduction is constituted of the following:

• Employment• Nutrition• Quality Education (particularly in primary, secondary

and vocational levels with strong emphasis on girls' education)

• Local governance• Maternal Health• Sanitation and Safe Water• Criminal Justice• Monitoring

Employment

• Employment is the strategic agenda where the pro-poor growth will be assured to crystallize the under poverty condition of the people who’s income is lower than $1 per day.

Nutrition & Sanitation

Bangladesh's nature of vulnerability, frequency of floods and storm are higher. As a cause hunger, malnutrition, and sanitation problem has been creating in an alarming rate.

if the hunger milestone has been crossed, new milestones loom: the challenge of poor diets and

disease-prone environments. Today's strategic agenda in this policy are thus those of nutrition and of sanitation and safe water.

Quality Education & Human development

Most of people leaving in rural areas are not educated at least at the level of primary education. That’s why the development of social and economic structure is being hampered both individually an nationally.

So it is important to develop the quality agenda in primary, secondary and vocational institution to improve human skills through proper training, communication and enrollment in which they are situated

Local governance

• The PRSP has proposed the structure of local governance according to the constitutional act where the rural area’s local govt. should follow the orders and suggestions of the constitution to maintain a balanced society.

Maternal Health

Maternal health carries the largest externalities for the health of the population as a whole. People are now the burden of extreme health-care expenditure. PRSP proposes the Increase of budget in the sector of maternal health to reduce the child mortality as well as maternal death causes.

Criminal Justice

The criminal justice agenda is central to the theme of human security which has now come to be widely accepted as a core aspect of progress on par with economic and social development.

Monitoring

Monitoring, both of process and of outcomes, is not merely an implementation detail but a central agenda to bring about a results orientation to programme efforts. As such it makes sense to prioritize monitoring into a strategic agenda.

Flowchart of poverty reduction Strategy Framework

Social Development in Bangladesh: Predict vs. Actual Values

Social Indicators Predicted Actual Sample countries

Population growth rate (annual percent) 1.897 1.740 181

Total fertility rate (birth per woman) 4.230 2.950 180

Crude birth rate 32.050 28.200 179

Crude death rate 12.780 8.200 179

Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live birth) 76.580 48.000 175

Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live birth) 115.80 73.00 175

Life expectancy at birth – female 57.500 62.700 177

Life expectancy at birth – male 54.130 61.500 177

Contraceptive prevalence rate (percent of women aged 15-19)

33.300 53.800 61

Major gaps of PRSP preparation

• Environment-poverty interface• Strategy for water resources management• Quality improvement in education• Mainstreaming gender issues in agriculture, rural

development and labour market• Private sector development• Medium term plan for trade policy reforms• Financial sector reforms• Policies and institutions for rural non-farm activities,

and,• Medium term framework on sectoral policy priorities.

Millennium Development Goal (MDG)

• MDG The millennium development is a set of numerical

and time bound targets related to key achievements in human development.

MDG was first launched at the millennium summit in New York in September 2000. The MDG has become the most widely-accepted yardstick of development efforts by govt. , donors, and NGOs.

Goals, targets, indicators

• There are 8 goals including 18 targets and 48 indicators

Goal 1 Eradicate Extreme Poverty

and Hunger

Bangladesh is well on track to achieving Goal 1 with poverty coming down to 40 percent in 2005. Also, the average annual rate of poverty reduction till 2005 has been 1.34 percent against the required 1.23 percent to meet the 2015 target. The poverty gap ratio has also decreased dramatically to 9.0.

Goal 2

Achieve Universal Primary Education

While a significant 87 percent

has been achieved in terms of primary school enrollment, dropout rates remain high and therefore primary school completion rate low. Progress has been made in adult literacy—54 percent in 2005—but additional effort is needed to reach the target.

Goal 3

Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Bangladesh has achieved

gender parity in primary and secondary education together with being on track with respect to percentage of women employed in agriculture sector. 

Goal 4

Reduce Child Mortality

The country is on track with regard to achieving this goal. Significant strides have been made in all three indicators and if the trend sustains, the country will meet the 2015 target well ahead of schedule.

Goal 5

Improve Maternal Health

Although the maternal mortality ratio is on track, it remains a challenge for Bangladesh to sustain the rate given the complex socio-economic factors that affect the goal. Also, the percentage of skilled birth attendants is low.

Goal 6

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Bangladesh has made some progress in combating the spread of malaria with the number of prevalence dropping from 42 cases per 100,000 in 2001 to 34 in 2005.

Goal 7

Ensure Environmental Sustainability

While significant progress has been made in terms of access to safe drinking water and sanitary latrines in urban areas, the same remains a challenge in rural areas. Also maintaining wet-lands and bio-diversity is still a challenge

Goal 8

Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Penetration of telephone lines and internet, particularly cell phone usage, has increased to a great extent but youth employment rate is still low.

MDG completing Rate

Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

2015 target : 1.23 %

2005 achievement: 1.34%

Poverty rate decreased: 9.0

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

•Net enrolment ratio in primary education (% both sexes):  92.1 •Percentage of pupils starting Grade 1 and reach Grade 5 (% both sexes):  65.1

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN•Gender parity Index in primary level enrolment (ratio of girls to boys):  1.0 •Literacy rates of 15-24 years old (% both sexes):  72.1 •Seats held by women in national parliament (%):  14.8

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality•Mortality rate of children under 5 years old (per 1,000 live births):  69 •1-year-old children immunized against measles (%):  81

Goal 5: Improve maternal health•Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 births):  570

GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES•People living with HIV,15-49 yrs old (%):  0.1 •Prevalence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people):  391

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability•Land area covered by forest (%):  6.7 •Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (metric tons):  0.2469 •Access to improved drinking water sources (% of total population):  80

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development•Internet users (per 100 people):  0.3

NOTE: The MDG data presented here is the latest available from the United Nations Statistics Division.

FIN !

THANK YOU ALL!!!!

Question???

Search in google.com for downloading the PRSP

report and MDG progress report for Bangladesh