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Poverty alleviation plan handed over to Grant

By Sohei Manzur
The government plan* to face the issue of poverty alleviation through supporting population .control effort*, reducing the vulnerability of .various groups .in the society and Increasl: the coping capacities of the poor, according to it* National Programme of Action (NPA)
The NPA prepared by the Joint Government - UNICEF Advisory Group (JGUAG) was handed over to the ilsltlng Executive Director of the UNICEF James P Grant Wednesday by the ERD Secretary Enam Ahmed Chowdhury.
The NPA . was prepared mainly to achieve the child and women related goal* of the Fourth Five Year Plan (FFYP). But It focuses on a number of Issues like education, health and nutrition. water and sanitation. disaster preparedness and communication strategies of the government.
The NPA revealed the overall situation of the woman and child in Bangladesh and felt that the status of the woman and girl child was the key indicator to the overall social development.
The overall strategies and principles were, however, fixed up keeping the matter in mind.
The NPA stressed particularly on communication, awareness building and community participation saying. "These arc essential for any kind of sustainable development."
"All programmes will therefore focus on and have a significant component of community participation and awareness building" it added.
' Revealing the rapidly increasing expenditure as a proportion of the Annual Development Programme (ADP).'thc NPA said so that "care will be taken so as not to put further strain on this proportion which can render programmes unsustainable."
'rhe development strategies also focus on reducing all the disparities (by location or by gender) through efforts tn the new programmes of cooperation.
The report on NPA titled Progoti' (the progress) also revealed the previous successes in some aspects like Expanded Programme On Immunization (EPl), water programmes and said that the factors behind the success would be utilised in making other programmes taken under the guideline of the NPA succeed.
Besides overall strategies and principles, the NPA also revealed that elaborate strategics to achieve the goals in particular issues like women and children communication and community participation, education, health and nutrition and disaster preparedness.
The strategics focus on both preventive and promotfvc measures to achieve the goals.
The NPA focusses on disaster preparedness with elaborate strategics as almost every year Bangladesh was being affected by cyclones and other natural calamities.
Actions on the matter were, however, divided into- three phases.- pre- disaster, disaster andpost disaster.
The objective of the general education project, mentioned in the NPA were to: increase equitable access to primary and secondary schooling, improve the quality of education at the primary and secondary levels, strengthen the management capacity of the primary and secondary sub-sec-tors. prepare future policies and programmes to reform the structure and finance higher secondary and post- secondary levels.
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