Implementing Ministries

Social Protection Programmes in Bangladesh:

1. Agriculture Infrastructure Improvement (Bangladesh Agriculture Infrastructure Development Project)
2. Agriculture Rehabilitation
3. Allowances for Urban Low-income Lactating Mothers
4. Allowances for the Financially Insolvent Disabled
5. Allowances for the Widow, Deserted and Destitute Women
6. Ashroyan Project -2
7. Assistance for Cancer, Kidney and Liver Cirrhosis Patients
8. Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (National Sanitation Project)
9. Block Allocation for Disaster Management
10. Block Allocation for Various Programme
11. Capacity Building of Joyeeta Foundation & Construction of Joyeeta Tower
12. Capitation Grants for Orphan Students in Non-gov. Orphanages
13. Cash Transfer Modernization (CTM)
14. Char Development and Settlement
15. Child and Maternal Health & Health Management Development
16. Child Development Center
17. Child protection and child welfare
18. Clinical Contraception Services Delivery
19. Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Improvement
20. Community Based Health Care
21. Construction of Cleaners Colony of Dhaka City Corporation
22. Construction of Flood-Shelter in Flood Prone and River-Erosion Areas
23. Construction of Multi-storied Building for under privileged Muktijoddha at Zilla/upazilla
24. Construction of Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Centre, CRP-Manikgonj
25. Day Care Program for Lower and Middle Income Working Women (Establishment of 20 Child Daycare Center Project_2016-17)
26. Development of Haji Nowab Ali Khan Orphanage'
27. Development of living standards of extinct enclaves
28. Development of the Living Standard of the Marginal People of Bangladesh
29. Development Support for Special Needs
30. Early Learning for Child Development
31. Employment Generation Programme for the Poor
32. Employment of Ultra Poor in Northern Areas
33. Establishment of Autistic Academy in Bangladesh
34. Establishment/Re establsihment for the Sarkari Shishu Paribar /Baby Home
35. Family Planning Field Services Delivery
36. Flood Management and Livelihood Improvement Project in Haor Area
37. Food Assistance in CTG-Hill Tracts Area
38. Food For Work (FFW)
39. Food Friendly Programme
40. Food Subsidy
41. Fund for Assistance to the Small Farmer and Poultry Farms
42. Fund for Climate Change
43. Fund for Micro-Credit through PKSF
44. Fund for the Welfare of Acid Burnt Women and Disabled
45. General Relief Activities
46. Generation Break through
47. Grameen Infrastructure Develpopmet
48. Grants for Residents in Government Orphanages and Other Institutions
49. Grants for the Schools for the Disabled
50. Gratuitious Relief (GR)
51. Gucchagram (Climate Victims Rehabilitation)
52. Haor Infrastructure and livelihood Development
53. Higher Secondary Stipend
54. Honorarium & Medical Allowances for Injured Freedom Fighters
55. Honorarium for Freedom Fighters
56. Housing Support
57. Improved life Standard for low-income people
58. Income Generating Activities for Women at Upazila Level
59. Income Support Program for the Poorest
60. Interest free Micro Credit Programme
61. Joyeeta Foundation
62. Lump Sum Provision for Development of Special Areas (Except Hill Tracts)
63. Maternal, Child, Reproductive and Adolescent Health
64. Maternal, Neo-natal, Child and Adolescent Health
65. Maternity Allowance Programme for the Poor
66. Micro-credit for Women Self- employment
67. Multi-purpose Disaster Shelter Construction
68. Multi-sectoral Programme to Prevent on Violence Against Women (4th Phase)
69. National Legal Aid Services
70. National Nutrition Services
71. National Service
72. Non-Bengali Rehabilitation
73. Old Age Allowance
74. One House One Farm
75. Open Market Sales (OMS)
76. Oppressed Women and Children Welfare Fund
77. Pension for Retired Government Employees and their Families
78. Poverty Reduction Through Inclusive and Sustainable Markets
79. Preferential Village Water Supply
80. Primary School Stipend
81. Programme for Improving the Livelihood of Trans Gender (Hijra)
82. Programme for Improving the Livelihood of Harijan, Dalit, Bade community (Bede and disadvantage community 2017-18)
83. Programme for Livelihood Improvement of tea-garden labourers
84. Promoting Nutrition Sensitive Social Security & Policy Support Programe
85. Providing Primary Health, Reproductive Health and Nutrition Services to Underprivileged Woman and Children
86. Ration for Shaheed Family and Injured Freedom Fighters
87. Reaching Out of School
88. Rehabilitation and Creation of Alternative Employment for Beggers Profession
89. Rural Infrastructure Development
90. Rural Settlement Construction for improvement of Rural Livelihood
91. School Feeding Programme
92. Second Chittagong Hill Tracts Rural Development
93. Secondary Education Development Programe (S.E.D.P)
94. Secondary Education Sector Investment Program
95. Secondary Education Stipend
96. Service and Assistance Center for Disabled
97. Shamaj Kallyan Parishad
98. Skill and Employment Programme in Bangladesh
99. Skill Development and Earthquake Risk Management Fund
100. Skills for Employment Investment Programme
101. Social Development Foundation
102. Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme
103. Special Assistance for the development of Char, Haor and undevelopment area
104. Special Fund for Assistance to women development & entrepreneurs
105. Stipend for Disabled Students
106. Street Children Rehabilitation Programme
107. Strengthening Public Financial Management for Social Protection
108. Strengthening Women?s Ability for Productive New Opportunities (SWAPNO)
109. Support to the Urban Health and Nutrition to Bangladesh
110. T.B., Leprosy, Communicable Non-communicable Disease
111. Test Relief (TR) Cash
112. The sustainable socio-economic development and rehabilitation programs of underprivileged and poor disabled and autistic people through special education, health care and various training programs
113. Tottho Apa: Empowering Women Through ICT Towards Digital Bangladesh
114. Training programs for autistic children and women through pilot training centers
115. Trust for the protection of the persons with neurodevelopmental disabilities
116. Universal Pension Insurance Scheme
117. Urban Based Marginal Women Development (Urban Based Women Development Project Phase-2_2017-18)
118. Urban Public Environmental Health Care (Devt. Programme)
119. Urban Resilience Project: (DNCC & DDM)
120. Varieties Relief Work
121. Vulnerable Group Development (VGD)
122. Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF)
123. Welfare Trust for Physical disabilities
124. Women's Skill Based Training For Livelihood
125. Work For Money (WFM)

Key Strategies

The NSPS is the first step in a long-term process of reform to the national SPS. The aspiration is to build a system that is appropriate for a progressive middle-income country and which supports the realisation of the right to social security that is set out in the national Constitution, as well as in a range of international conventions agreed by Bangladesh. However, it is envisaged that this may take two decades to achieve. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the long-term vision for the SPS, as well as the more detailed objectives for the next five years.

In the long-term the objective is to move towards building a social protection system that is available to all Bangladeshis, providing everyone with a guaranteed minimum income but also a comprehensive safety net for those who suffer shocks and crises that may push them into poverty. Therefore, the long-term vision for social protection is to:

• Build an inclusive SPS for all Bangladeshis that effectively tackles and prevents poverty and rising inequality and contributes to broader human development, employment and economic growth.

The current NSPS is designed with this long-term vision in mind. Therefore, over the next five years the Government would take appropriate steps towards achieving this vision, while being cognizant of the reality that substantial change will take time. The Government will focus on building the foundations of a progressive and inclusive system.

Over the next five years, the goal for the NSPS is to:

• Reform the national SPS by ensuring more efficient and effective use of resources, strengthened delivery systems and progress towards a more inclusive form of social protection that effectively tackles lifecycle risks, prioritising the poorest and most vulnerable members of society.