Bangladesh Third Country Investment Plan - Sustainable, Nutrition Sensitive and Resilient Food Systems 2021-2025 (CIP3).

The Bangladesh Third Country Investment Plan (CIP3) aims to mobilise and orient funds towards sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, and resilient investments to achieve food and nutrition security and significantly contribute to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
This investment plan seeks to generate a sustainable and nutrition sensitive food system that is resilient to shocks and crises. In consonance with the Second Country Investment Plan for Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems (CIP2, 2016-2020), the CIP3 promotes the use of a nutrition lens to assess and prioritise various options for designing multi-sectoral inter-linked interventions that are centred around shaping food systems for improving diets and the nutritional outcomes.
The guiding principles include food system’s approach, policy consistency, consultative process, focus on gender and role of private sector in achieving the objectives. The institutional arrangements to monitor the CIP3 are also laid out.
The CIP3 has five Pillars: I. Availability of safe and nutritious food for healthy diets; II. Access to safe and nutritious food at an affordable price; III. Consumption and utilization of healthy and diversified diets for achieving nutrition improvements; IV. Access to nutrition-sensitive social protection and safety nets across life cycle with a focus on vulnerable groups and regions; and V. Cross-sectoral/cross cutting issues which are relevant across the different elements of the food system. A list of 35 programmes across the five pillars are provided and interventions under each programme are described.