Bangladesh Second Country Investment Plan 2016-2020 (CIP2).

This Bangladesh Second Country Investment Plan 2016-2020 (CIP2) is integral to the multisectoral approach needed to tackle hunger and malnutrition and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a tool to mobilise funds and align sectoral and cross-sectoral food and nutrition security (FNS) related programmes. The overarching goal of the CIP2 is to achieve improved food security and nutrition for all at all times by making food systems nutrition-sensitive and sustainable.
The strategic objective of the CIP2 is to ensure availability, affordability and nutritional quality of foods, and that all people have access to a variety of safe and nutritious foods, and to the knowledge they need to make wise food choices for a healthy diet. It sets forth 13 priority nutrition-sensitive investment programmes for each stage of the food value chain -‘from production to plate’- as well as emerging challenges to the food systems that impact diets and nutrition.
The CIP2 seeks to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. One of the the pillars of the CIP2 is: diversified and sustainable agriculture, fisheries and livestock for healthy diets. The pillar includes three investment programmes: 1. Sustainable intensification and diversification of crop-based production systems; 2. Improved access, quality and management of agricultural inputs, including water and land; 3. Enhanced productivity and sustainable production of animal source foods. Another investment programme is on reduced food losses and waste,
The CIP2 seeks to enhance access to social protection and safety nets and increased resilience through the following investment programmes: 1. Timely and effective disaster preparedness and response through emergency food distribution, steps towards agricultural sector rehabilitation and mitigation measures; 2. Strengthened cash and food based programmes for targeted groups across the life cycle including disabled and displaced populations.
The CIP2 seeks to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems. The following pillars are proposed in the CIP2: 1. Efficient and nutrition-sensitive post-harvest transformation and value addition through programmes for strengthened post-harvest value chain with particular focus on MSMEs (storage, processing, branding, labelling, marketing and trade) and improved access to markets, facilities and information; 2. Improved dietary diversity, consumption and utilisation through enhanced nutrition knowledge, promotion of good practices, and consumption of safe and nutritious diets, and optimised food utilisation through provision of safe water, improved food hygiene and sanitation. 3. Strengthened enabling environment and crosscutting programmes for achieving food and nutrition security containing: improved food safety, quality control and assurance, awareness on food safety and hygiene, improved information and data for evidence-based monitoring and adjustment of policies and programmes and so on.
In terms of governance, the CIP2 proposes a investment programme, namely: improved food and nutrition security (FNS) governance, capacity strengthening and leadership across FNS relevant stakeholders, to improve food and nutrition security in an integrated way. Coherence of initiatives will be ensured at the national and sub-national levels. Supportive guidance will be sought from the Food Planning and Monitoring Committee (FPMC), Bangladesh National Nutrition Council (BNNC) and related high-level governance mechanisms.