The document summarizes Bangladesh's status on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It reports that Bangladesh is on track to meet targets for reducing poverty, increasing primary education enrollment and gender parity, and reducing maternal and child mortality. However, it needs attention on targets for reducing diseases like malaria and tuberculosis, increasing overseas development assistance, and increasing forest coverage. It discusses challenges like inadequate land for food production. It also outlines Bangladesh's plan to align its 7th Five Year Plan with the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework beginning in 2016.

1. MDGs: Status of Bangladesh at a
glance

2. Target: 29% people living
below national poverty line
Status: On track
24.8% (estimated 2015, GED)
Target: Net enrolment ratio
(NER) 100%
Status : On track
97.94% (APSE, 2015)
Target: Gender parity in primary
education 1.0
Status: On track
1.04 (APSC, 2015)

3. Target: Reduce under 5 mortality
rate 48 per 1000 live birth
Status: Achieved
36 per thousand live births
Target 5.A: Reduce MMR to 143 per
thousand live birth
Status: On track
170 per thousand live birth (MMEIG
2013)
Target 5.B: Universal access to
reproductive health
Status: On track
Contraceptive prevalence rate is
64.2% (Target 72%)

4. Target 6.A: HIV prevalence halting
Status: On track
<0.1 (UNAIDS 2013), but was
increasing since 2015
Target 6.B: Reduce the incidence of
major disease
Status: Needs attention
Malaria prevalence among 100, 000
population 433.91 (Target 310)
TB prevalence 402 among 100,000
population (Target 250)

5. Target:: Developed further an open,
rule-based, predictable, non-
discriminatory trading and financial
system
Status: Needs attention
Net ODA received USD 3043 (2015)
Debt service 6.4% (2014)
Target: Forest coverage >20%
(Tree density >70%)
Status: Needs attention
13% (DOF 2014), TD 32%

6. Key challenges
• Inadequate land for production of food
• High population density
• Growing population
• Just 1 in 6 women are employed in non- agricultural sector
• Protein and micronutrient deficiency cause maternal and
child malnutrition
• Inadequate health resources in rural areas

7. Moving towards SDGs
• Upon the experience based on MDG, the world had made
significant development to meet the goals, and now
countries like Bangladesh has now made amendable
progress.
• However according to UN 8 goals of MDG have overlooked
the root causes of proverty, genter inequality or the urgency
of holistic nature of development. So the new development
goal is proposed in the name of SDGs.

9. Bangladesh and SDGs
Bangladesh had chance to reflect her achievements and
failures in post 2015 based on MDG goals framework.
Therefore the GOB has proposed a 7 year plan based on
SDGs while adapting and shaping the goals of SDGs
according to their needs.
It contains 11 goals, 58 targets and 241 indicators based on the
goals of SDGs. Later UNDG suggested 3 more goals to be
added.

10. Bangladesh and SDGs
• As the goals, targets and indicators of the SDGs are well
taken care of in the formulation process of the 7th FYP of
Bangladesh, it can be said that the country will be an 'early
starter' in the implementation process of the SDGs.
• It has came in effect from January 2016.