17th Central Management Committee on Social Protection Programmes held

The role of the Central Management Committee (CMC) on Social Security Programmes is to provide support to the five thematic clusters for coordination between the ministries. The committee is formed with the Cabinet Secretary as the Chair and Secretaries of Ministries/Divisions as Members. Today, the CMC held it’s 17th meeting, participated by 39 Ministries and presided by Mr. Md. Mahbub Hossain, Cabinet Secretary.

The agenda consisted of consolidation/strengthening of the previous (16th CMC) meeting minutes; review of the implementation progress of decisions from the previous (16th) meeting; discussion on the dissemination programme of the 2nd Phase of National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) Action Plan (2021-26) held in October 2022; discussion on the Single Registry MIS and National Household Database (NHD) by SID; information on the progress of social security Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework development and preparation of the NSSS M&E Dashboard and informing on the activities of Thematic Clusters.

The Social Security Policy Support (SSPS) Programme of the Cabinet Division & General Economics Department (GED), Planning Commission, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, with DFAT & UNDP, provided technical support to the meeting.