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)
 PRSP
What 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 33.300 53.800 61
women aged 15-19)
 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
Eradicate Extreme Poverty
1
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 !

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