1 / 25

Ensuring Food Security in Bangladesh: Role of MOFDM and FPMU

Explore the challenges faced in addressing food security in Bangladesh, the role of Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, and the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit in implementing safety net programs to ensure access to food.

labadie
Download Presentation

Ensuring Food Security in Bangladesh: Role of MOFDM and FPMU

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Addressing Food Security in Bangladesh: Role of MOFDM and FPMU Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) Food Division Ministry of Food and Disaster Management Presentation to Cambodian Food Security Team February 22, 2010

  2. Background: Food Security • Near self-sufficiency in rice: production tripled since 1971, but deficit in wheat • Significant growth of production of vegetables, fruits, fish, meat and egg, still below requirement • Dwindling production of pulses and oilseeds • Improving nutritional status, but still high level of malnutrition among children and women • ~30% of the population calorie poor, ~37 % income poor

  3. Background : Food Security • Persistent challenges • decreasing land, environmental (soil) degradation, increasing population, household level food insecurity, widening consumption & income inequality • Emerging challenges • Climate change impacts • Salinity increase and submergence in the south and south-west • Uneven temperature stresses and rain fall • Drought in the north and north-west • Increased frequency/intensity of natural disasters • World food market volatility/uncertainty • World economic recession

  4. Background: Role of the Govt. • Responsibility of the state under Bangladesh Constitution (art 15 & 18): ensure food, health and nutrition • Rules of Business of the Government • Allocation of Business to Ministries & Divisions • Policy framework: • National Food Policy 2006 • National Food Policy Plan of Action (2008-2015) • PRSP-II • Other policies

  5. Institutional Hierarchy info • Cabinet: headed by the Honorable PM • Ministries and Divisions • Agencies • Regions, District and Upazila (Sub-district) offices • Local Government Institutions at the root (Upazila parishad, Union Parishad) command

  6. Govt. stakeholders/partners • Food Availability:Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food & DM, Ministry of Fisheries & Livestock; Agencies-DAE, DGF, DOL, DOF etc. • Access to Food:Ministry of Food & DM Ministry of LGRD&C Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Women & Children Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Social Welfare; Agencies: DGF, DRR, LGRD & RD , DOWCA etc. • Nutrition:Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Ministry of Food & DM, Ministry of Industries, Ministry of LGRD&C; Agencies: BNNC, BBF, DGH, BSTI, IPHN, IPH, DPHE etc.

  7. Role of MOFDM • Ensuring Food security • Disaster risk reduction Policy, regulatory and coordinating role

  8. Role of MOFDM: improving access and availability • Guide (design, implement, monitor and evaluate) safety net programs • Guide Public Food Distribution System • Maintain Public Stock: over 1.3 million MT • Public Procurement of food grain-domestic & international: (1.6+1.0) = 2.6 million MT • Stabilize market prices: Domestic procurement and Open Market Sale • Mobilize financial resources; Manage human resources • Monitoring and evaluation, analysis and research

  9. Role of MOFDM: safety net programs • Types of social safety net programs: • Cash Transfer (Allowances) Program (e.g. GR cash) • Cash Transfer (Special) Program (e.g.Cash For Work, Housing support, Fund for disaster risk reduction) • Food Security Programs (e.g.Vulnerable Group Dev., Vulnerable Group Feeding, Test relief, Gratuitous Relief, Food For Works) • Tied Micro-Credit Programs (e.g. VGD) • Employment gen prog. for hard core poor Major criteria: i)income/asset criteria; ii) occupational criteria; iii) ethnic criteria; iv) gender and children criteria; and v) regional disparity criteria

  10. Role of MOFDM: safety net programs • Extended budget: • about 2.8 % of the GDP & 16.94% of public expenditure (Source: PRSP-II) • 2.67 million tons of foodgrain allocated for 2009-10 • Shift in approach: • charity to development • More targeted

  11. **Immediate economic improvement effects; ***development effects; ***empowerment impacts Role of MOFDM: safety net programs

  12. Issues and challenges of SSNPs • Fiscal Constraints:Dwindling food aid/ • unpredictability/delay in aid arrival, Inadequate storage facilities in PFDS, Insufficient resources to import from own resources, Limited Coverage, Inadequacy of the Amount of Transfers • Institutional Constraints:Absence of Integrated National SSN Policy, Gender specific risks and insecurity in the labour market; Targeting and leakages • Information Constraints:Missing Poor and New Vulnerabilities; Insensitivity to Geographic and Agro-Ecology Specific Poverty

  13. Honorable Minister Secy, DM divn. Secy, Food divn • Admin. Wing • Food Wing (2) • FPMU • Admin. Wing • Relief & DM Wing (2) Attached Departments DGF DRR, DMB MOFDM hierarchy

  14. Role of FPMU…… • Established in 1980 at the Planning Commission, now a wing of MOFDM • Serve as the policy analysis support unit of MOFDM: • Production and Early Warning; • Market Monitoring and Government Food Operation Planning; • Policy Advisory Research and • Food Security Consumption and Nutrition Analysis • Provide secretarial functions to Food Planning & Monitoring Committee (FPMC) • NFP-POA implementation monitoring

  15. Role of FPMU • Implement relevant decisions by Cabinet Division or other authority in respect of food policy. • Forecast/provide “Early Warning” on food situation based on analysis of (primary and) secondary information. • Formulate food security policies; monitor implementation • Conduct field study and research on all aspects of food policy, e.g. subsidy, marketing, pricing and distribution policies etc • Publish bulletins/reports: daily/fortnightly/monthly/quarterly/research-study reports related to food security

  16. Roleof FPMU in Bangladesh Food Policy Honorable Minister Food Planning and Monitoring Committee (FPMC) Secretary, Food Director General, FPMU Policy Adv. Research and Statistical Analysis Production and Early Warning Service Market Monitoring and Government Food Operation Food Security Consumption and Nutrition Analysis

  17. Organogram of FPMU

  18. Interministerial Committees • Food Planning and Monitoring Committee • Early Warning Technical Committee • Food Security, Consumption and Nutrition Technical Committee • Safety Net Monitoring Committee • Food Policy Working Group • Thematic Teams (4)

  19. Food Planning and Monitoring Committee Honorable Minister, MOFDM - Chairman Honorable Minister, Finance -Member Honorable Minister, LGRD -Member Honorable Minister, Agriculture -Member Cabinet Secretary -Member Secretary, Agriculture -Member Secretary, Finance -Member Secretary, Planning -Member Secretary, IRD -Member Secretary, MOFDM -Member DG, FPMU -Member-secretary

  20. Cabinet Division MOFDM FPMC FPMU 11 Ministries: MOA, MOFL, MOF, MOLGRD, Planning, MOHFW, MOWCA, MOSW, MOWR, MOEF, etc Dev. Partners UN-FAO, WFP; WB, ADB, EC, USAID etc GOB Agencies DGF, DMB, DRR, DAE, BBS, DWCA, DSW, BNNC, SPARSO, DGH, etc Research Org GOB (BARC, BRRI, BARI), Universities (INFS), International (IFPRI), Non-Governmental Regional/Inter-Governmental Org e.g. SAARC Civil Society Working Linkages of FPMU

  21. DGF : Public Procurement, Distribution, Commercial import, Stock, Market price. DRR, DMB : Disaster Interventions WFP, DEV. PARTNERS: Food Aid, Intl food situation MOA : Fertilizer prices, production, area, yield, etc MO Finance: Food budget, Macro indices DAE : Area of cultivation, Yield, Production, tech adoptn. BBS : Production, Yield, Population, Consumption, Poverty, irrigation data DAM : Market prices BMD : Weather- Rainfall, Temp, Sunshine WDB : Irrigation data, flood situation SPARSO : Area of cultivation, Yield, Production FAO : World cereal production, Prices SAARC : Regional Food Production, Stock, Management, Safety Standards etc. Sources and Information

  22. FPMU reports Daily Food Situation Fortnightly Foodgrain Outlook (English & Bengali) Fortnightly Food Scenario Monthly Early Warning Quarterly Food Situation Yearly food situation database pocket book Field production monitoring report (RRA) Food consumption and nutrition monitoring report (RRA) NFP-POA monitoring report

  23. Strengthening of FPMU-ongoing initiatives • Training programs to raise efficiency of the professional staffs • Computer aided analysis/tools • Communication and IT staffs • Electronic database • Physical library/Virtual library • Reduction of dependency on secondary data • Increased field study and research works Under NFPCSP

  24. Conclusion • Analyzing food security policies has been an increasingly complex task • Need adaptive capacity to execute the tasks properly • Exchange and visits and building networks across countries and regions, among others, are important steps

  25. Thank you all

More Related