On 17 April 2016, 50 officials from the Cabinet Division were given an orientation on the National Social Security Strategy (NSSS). Topics included on a brief of the NSSS; Trend of the poverty situation; social safety nets in Bangladesh; gender and social protection; NSSS, 7th Five Year Plan and SDG; M & E arrangement of current Safety Net programmes; Further Reform Agenda; Progress of NSSS; and alignment, scope and opportunity of SSPS in NSSS.